A Quotes
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“A love that dies has never lived.”
“A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“A love that doesn't seek to change you but tries to celebrate you in all of your ups and downs: true unconditional love.”
Source: NO ONE KNOWS ME: The Inner Child Edition
“A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.”
“A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.”
Source: God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
“A love that’s too safe will prevent you from evolving to new levels of passion, desire, and ecstasy.”
“A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.”
Source: This Business of Living
“A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.”
“A love triangle is a threesome delayed.”
“A love where no one gets hurt doesn't exist.”
“A love without reservation ought to be a life force compelling the world into order and beauty. But that love can be so strong and yet so entirely powerless is what breaks the heart. Love did not move toward life, it moved toward death, toward the roaring sea-caves of annihilation. Or it led to the futility of a little broken bird's egg whose remains were now being washed away by water from the tap. Even so one day God might crack the universe and wash away its fruitless powerless loves with a deluge of indifferent power.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“A love worth remembering is a love worth keeping.”
“A love you always have to fight for isn't worth it”
“A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.”
“A Loveless Life is Like a Rudderless Ship Floating Uncontrollably in the Ocean of Life.”
“A loveless world is a dead world.”
Source: Collected fiction
“A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.”
“A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.”
“A lovely fatigue claimed him. He lay down on the grass and listened. He thought about how Kestrel had slept on the palace lawn and dreamed of him. When she had told him this, he'd wished that it had been real. He tried to imagine the dream, then found himself dreaming.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.”
Source: West with the Night
“A lovely little wooden cottage in the depths of a forest is the most beautiful palace a king or any man can ever have!”
“A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.”
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
“A lovemance is not bound by endings;
it keeps unfolding wherever the soul keeps growing.”
Source: Lovemance: A Manifesto of Transformative Love and Spiritual Feminist Literature
“A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.”
“A lover and a fighter — the last of a dying breed.”
“A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.”
“A lover becomes a light when he or she enlightens world of someone.”
“A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.”
“A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.”
“A lover fears all that he believes.”
“A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)”
“A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.”
“A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.”
“A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.”
Source: Selected poems
“A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.”
“A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.”
“A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny smile full of teeth and white enamel and pink gums. The smile that fades in the distance as I drive away in a taxi again.”
“A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood”
Source: Reuben Sachs: A Sketch
“A lover might be a sufferer, but a sufferer can not be a lover.”
“A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings that were sometimes bad but precious in memory, and bric-a-brac. Only the eye of a connoisseur would have blazed with eagerness at the sight of this painting or that, some book yellowed with age, a piece of old porcelain, or stones and coins.
But the furniture and paintings of different ages, the bric-a-brac that meant nothing to anyone but had been marked for them both by a happy hour or memorable moment, and the ocean of books and sheet music breathed a warm life that oddly stimulated the mind and aesthetic sense. Present everywhere was vigilant thought. The beauty of human effort shone here, just as the eternal beauty of nature shone all around.
pp. 492-493”
Source: Oblomov
“A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.”
“A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.”
“A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.”
“A lover turns blind to everything and everyone except the beloved,
A lover gets dissolved contemplating beloved in the eyes, in the heart, and in the thoughts, losing his own identity.”
“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.”