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"The difference between romantic love and friendship love is that romantic love involves a lot of compromise. It is a very giving type of love. With friendship, you can be a little bit more autonomous. You are not expected to compromise, in the same way. Maybe that's why friendships tend to last longer."
"Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling."
"We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be."
"The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding."
"Love is madness, and lust is poison."
"Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself."
"Love is a jeering mime."
"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
"Only the free mind knows what Love is."
"The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it."
"He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."
"Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex."
"The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built."
"If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating."
"Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."
"Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!"
"Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone."
"A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed."
"If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed."
"The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest."
