"A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution."
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"Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism."
"The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside."
"Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated"
"Sex can look like love if you don't know what love looks like."
"Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual."
"Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek."
"faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it."
"You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time."
"Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles."
"Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around."
"Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy."
"Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right."
"Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job."
"Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have."
"I wasn't going to toss off words like love and forever until I was sure. Until he was sure. Forever can be a very long time for a n=Bean sidhes, ans so far his track record looked more like the fifty-yard dash than the Boston marathon."
"The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator."
"We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on."
"Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees."
"Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that."
"Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer."