Quotes on Those We Love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.