It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.
I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person see that you're a valuable, estimable person, and that your love is worth something. Then one day you open the paper and glance at the Personals column, and there you see that your loved one has placed an ad... seeking someone worthwhile to love and be loved by.
I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
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