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Quotations on Love 5043 Quotes Found You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday. I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love. Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time. America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training. I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. I love parties. I love a good time. My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz. I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things. I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good. There's nothing more human than two people making love. People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in. I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely!' I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy. Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! But no one frees himself from being in love in three days. You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret. There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other. One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. The family is the school of duties - founded on love. Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give. I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct. Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
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