LOVE
LOVE - Quotes from the papers of Tom "Grandpa" Glennon
“Nothing can destroy you – if you respond in love!”
“Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.”
“There is so much coldness because we do not dare be as cordial as we really are.”
--Albert Schweitzer “A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart’s. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand: only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back – it does not matter which because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it.”
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Gift From the Sea
“Life gives you pretty much what you give it. She gives beauty to those who try to add to her beauty. She gives happiness to those who share their happiness with her. She gives, even, love to those who love her. But these are very, very few. Almost all of us have a capacity for being loved. But few of us have a capacity for loving.”
--Page 72 – Mr. Blue by Myles Connolly
What do you consider the greatest poem you ever wrote? Edwin Markham, replied, “I wrote four lines which I treasure more than all else I wrote during my entire life”:
“He drew a circle and shut me out
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle and took him in.”
“One of life’s darker mysteries is the penalty hidden in the most pervading love.”
--Michael New
EMPATHY--Entering into the feelings or needs of other; putting yourself in their place; being sympathetic to their troubles, problems, frustrations and sorrows---and rejoicing with them in their good fortune.
“Nothing can destroy you – if you respond in love!”
“Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.”
“There is so much coldness because we do not dare be as cordial as we really are.”
--Albert Schweitzer “A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart’s. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand: only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back – it does not matter which because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it.”
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Gift From the Sea
“Life gives you pretty much what you give it. She gives beauty to those who try to add to her beauty. She gives happiness to those who share their happiness with her. She gives, even, love to those who love her. But these are very, very few. Almost all of us have a capacity for being loved. But few of us have a capacity for loving.”
--Page 72 – Mr. Blue by Myles Connolly
What do you consider the greatest poem you ever wrote? Edwin Markham, replied, “I wrote four lines which I treasure more than all else I wrote during my entire life”:
“He drew a circle and shut me out
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle and took him in.”
“One of life’s darker mysteries is the penalty hidden in the most pervading love.”
--Michael New
EMPATHY--Entering into the feelings or needs of other; putting yourself in their place; being sympathetic to their troubles, problems, frustrations and sorrows---and rejoicing with them in their good fortune.