"We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us."

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Source : Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1953). “St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Seen Through His Selected Letters”

Bernard of Clairvaux

#Relationship Quotes

“Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.”
“If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.”
“Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.”
“You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?”
“You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.”
“I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.”
“I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.”
“You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream”

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