"Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison."
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"That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes."
"I love being on tour; I love being on the road. Its the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it."
"The hardest thing of love is to let go."
"He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything."
"...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst."
"Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish."
"Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love."
"The science of love is the philosophy of the heart"
"I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything."
"I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it."
"I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there."
"It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters."
"I love training and I love being able to kick ass."
"Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there."
"Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing."
"From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy."
"The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration."
"Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world."
"The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love."