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Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Related topics: Love Romantic Inspirational
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong 
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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