A Quote by Mortimer Adler

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

Mortimer Adler

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Immortality Itself Love Perpetuate Wishes

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Mortimer Adler
American - Philosopher
December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

John Ortberg

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.

Catherynne M. Valente

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

Leo Buscaglia

I love getting up in the morning. I love coming to my office. I love going to movie sets. It's really what every parent wishes for their kid - to do what makes them happy.

Marc Platt

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

Honore de Balzac

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

Leo Buscaglia

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

Agatha Christie

we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

Milan Kundera

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

Yoko Ono

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.

Sigmund Freud

Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.