"Love is an action, never simply a feeling."
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"Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."
"But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun."
"I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of."
"Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things real."
"Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away."
"Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source."
"Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself."
"The energy born of love is creative - it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look around at what you have created."
"Love is much more demanding than law."
"The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one."
"I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty."
"The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence"
"Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that."
"We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity."
"Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience."
"Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil."
"The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all."
"Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one physical type."
"Why can't love be a fairy tale?"