People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
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People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods_x000D_ And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge
Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning
The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.
You the one that I dream about all day. You the one that I think about always. You are the one so I make sure I behave! My love is your love, your love is my love.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.
Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
Surrender is just like love. That's why I say only lovers can become sannyasins - because they know a little of how to surrender. Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.
One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
Your religion is where your love is.
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.
Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.
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