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No amount of money or ideas can replace the value of being physically present, giving time and attention to people or projects.
- Mike Breen
Prayer was as fundamental an element in the life of Jesus as breathing. He inhaled his Father's presence so he could exhale his Father's will.
- Mike Breen
life is richer when it is shared even with those who annoy us from time to time.
- Mike Breen
Jesus is trying to draw out this principle: We are designed to work from a place of rest, not rest from work. He makes it quite clear that real rest is found in him being connected to his Father.
- Mike Breen
Many faith communities have become little more than gatherings of isolated individuals, while the number of online communities continues to grow.
- Mike Breen
My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
- Mike Huckabee
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
- Milan Kundera
When she first felt her son's groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover's caress, it brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm.
- Milan Kundera
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
- Milan Kundera
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.
- Milan Kundera
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
- Mortimer Adler
Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
- Mortimer Adler