Monday, October 24, 2011

Love, Love, and Love

Love is like dying. - Stephen King

At least I know what love is. Like clouds love the sky, ocean loves sand, winter loves snow, snow loves breeze, it's all connected. It's called unconditional love. It's in our heart. - Niki Yan

If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing. - Alaya Malakh-Pines

Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it. - Jens Peter Jacobsen

I want you to make love, not war. - John Lennon

All you need is love. - John Lennon

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. - Erich Fromm

I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. - Erich Fromm

The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy. - Richard Bach

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. - Carl Sagan

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable. - David Augsburger

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. "Deserves" is not the point. And "owes" is certainly not the point. The pont is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get. - Amy Bloom

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are. - Oprah Winfrey

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. - Marge Piercy

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you -- I am at rest with you -- I have come home. - Dorothy Sayers

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom. - bell hooks


Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. - Hafiz of Persia

You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being. - Susan Skye


We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones. - Hafiz of Persia

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde