Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.
We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.
The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.
I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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