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Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
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
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
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- 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
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
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- 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 one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
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Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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)
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
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
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If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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