Caroline Paul Quotes

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

If one is aware and alive, then it is one's relationships that make you live. It makes life worth living.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

How we need another soul to cling to.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Love is being stupid together.

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.