“They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly toward Love; / For perfect Love is never cowardly, / But claims its rights, which it lacks.” SoulPerfectLove IsRightsWorstClaimsWithout LoveCowardlyPerfect Love Author:Hadewijch
“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.” IfsThinkingKnowsUseDecisionLove IsVirtueTeachingCollegeMajorsHighestClaimsWho You AreGuaranteesAppropriateDecision MakingAcademicCriteriaPretentiousGuarantees ThatWhat Is LoveAcademic Life Author:Leroy S Rouner
“I'm afraid, as true as love is, it is tested by circumstance and sometimes you don't make the best choices. As much as the fans claim [that] all they want is just want people sitting around and having a nice time together, trust me, you would not be watching the show if there wasn't conflict, if there wasn't drama, if there wasn't jeopardy. And it's not just physical jeopardy, it's romantic jeopardy as well.” PeopleIfsWantWellsSometimesShowsTogetherChoicesLove IsNiceFansCircumstancesDramaConflictSittingClaimsTestedTrust MeSitting AroundJeopardyTime TogetherNice Time Author:Joseph Dougherty
“At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.” HandsLeftHeavenLove IsSeaLandClaimsChristmasGrievingTidesBounty Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“The most hurtful thing to me is when people try to put assumptions on me and my relationship because that is not OK. Love is something that's really serious and private that you can't try to claim or know.” PeopleKnowsTryingLove IsSeriousClaimsAssumptionHurtfulHurtful Things Author:Gigi Hadid
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.” WorldHumansPhilosophyLastsIndividualDifficultHuman BeingsLove IsTasksTestsUltimateClaimsSakeProofPreparation Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“Those who do not know what love is liken it to beauty. Those who claim to know what love is liken it to ugliness.” KnowsLove IsClaimsUglinessGinBleach Author:Tite Kubo
“Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.” LightLove IsColdLaughterLonelyClaimsYeahTonightComplaintsHallelujah Author:Leonard Cohen
“Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.” GivingDoeJoyGivenWaitingLove IsMysteryProveClaimsPossessionAcceptedEndlessInwardLove FreedomBeauty LoveOutward Beauty Author:Rabindranath Tagore
“Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.” Has BeensStoriesLyingLove IsClaimsSufficientHappily Ever AfterEver After Book:The Song is You Source: The Song is You
“The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.” WayPhilosophyMomentsFactsHappensCertainLove IsAliveSpecialConcernedClaimsPhilosophicalBoundsWholenessFullnessCompleteness Author:Thomas Merton
“People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansMomentsFeelingsWishLove IsEmotionLonelinessClaimsIntenseLive In The MomentVividHuman EmotionsDeepest Feelings Author:Seth
“Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.” Love IsClaimsTeethFierceClaws Book:Archangel's Legion Source: Archangel's Legion
“To the people that claim to hate Love: Remember that the thing that hurt you was a person, not love. If it had been love, they would not have hurt you. Beware that many things masquerade as love: obsession, jealousy, control, and loneliness are just a few. Love is the greatest thing on Earth, along with her sister, Hope.” PeopleIfsLovePersonsEarthRememberHateHurtLove IsLonelinessClaimsObsessionLove HateMasquerade Author:Carlos Salinas
“The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.” WorldLoveNeedsStillsFeelingsEyeAgeWomenLove IsDealsLoversClaimsAgingWarmGrassBlessTendernessBladesOlder Women Author:Germaine Greer