Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"The more you love, the more you suffer."
How To Love quotes
How To Love
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else."
Mary Oliver
Poet
"There is only one question: / how to love this world."
Matthew West
Singer-Songwriter
"Show me how to love the unlovable Show me how to reach the unreachable Help me now to do the impossible...Fo rgiveness"
Bell Hooks
Author, Feminist, Social Activist
"schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us."
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"However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning."
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"everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift."
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"Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur."
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"Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition."
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"I was too young to know how to love her."
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"That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself."
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"Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place."
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
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"Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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"I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love."
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