Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

I think in order to have eternal life, you have to have a soul, and the soul of the show is that we all really did love each other. I think that really came across.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.

Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists.

Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.