Love
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Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Love is the absence of judgment.
Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
Love is the opposite of lust: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich.
Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love.
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.
The Human Stain
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.
The Human Stain
The only obsession everyone wants: love. People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
The Dying Animal
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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