Perfect

I have a thing for quotes. I search through them based on what I am going through in hopes of getting answer. I believe that when lost for your own words you can find them in others. They have the ability to describe how we feel about the world and what we stand for.

I found a quote that I absolutely adore and can perfectly relate to my world view today while searching "love". I feel a lot of love today, but it is encompassed with mixed emotions. The past, present, and future of love in all aspects of my life has been what I'd call a roller coaster and its so tough to describe. I have a tendency to fall deeply in love with concepts, theories, and nature. I fall even deeper with men (maybe its because the art of romance is something I have yet to master). I love my friends and family with great passion. I love people more than anything. My love keeps me going.

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Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

adapted -Bertrand Russell