Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio quotes

A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live
-- Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

#Life #Love Is #Joy

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

Unconditional love is hard to compete with.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.