LOVE QUOTES VIII

quotations about love

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Love isn't something we can just turn off like a well-oiled faucet. It drips, keeping us up at night.

HEIDI K. ISERN

"The responsibility to fall out of love is on you", Quartz, August 5, 2016


I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like genius, she is ignorant of what she does.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Passion


The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

JOEL OSTEEN

Become a Better You

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Only love makes fruitful the soul.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beyond

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Running like a river trying to find the ocean
Flowers in the concrete
Climbing over fences, blooming in the shadows
Places that you can't see
Coming through the melody when the night bird sings
Love is a wild thing, yeah

KACEY MUSGRAVES

"Love Is a Wild Thing"


Please do not think for a second, as some people do, that Love is primarily an affair of the emotions. It is not: it never ought to be. It is an affair of the will: it is an act of choice.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of His Converts

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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Second Sex

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Every little thing wants to be loved.

SUE MONK KIDD

The Secret Life of Bees

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Love is an open door to a possibility of a joyful dance, getting your needs met and fulfilling someone else's needs, trusting you will be safe.

TERRELL WASHINGTON

"To Love is to Trust", The Good Men Project, August 18, 2016


A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

THICH NHAT HANH

Teachings on Love

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Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.

TONI MORRISON

Love

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To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

WOODY ALLEN

Love and Death

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Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections


You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

November

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Love, amid the other graces of this world, is like a cathedral tower, which begins at the earth and at the first is surrounded by the other parts of the structure. But at length, rising above buttresses, wall and arch, and parapet and pinnacle, it shoots, spire-like, many a foot right into the air, so high that the huge cross on its summit glows like a spark in the morning light, and shines like a star in the evening sky, when the rest of the pile is enveloped in darkness. So love here is surrounded by the other graces, and divides the honors with them; but they will have felt the wrap of night and of darkness, when it will shine, luminous, against the sky of eternity.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


My love is a bird
Happily singing on my shoulder
Would you like to be the cage
A sweet cage forever?

JINSONG GUO

"R U Still There?", Love Poems N' Quotes by Dr. Guo

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The utopia of love is completion to the point of stillness. The ideal act of love is to contain all.

JOHN BERGER

Keeping a Rendezvous

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To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England