Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be."
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Loving Someone
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Bill Russell
Basketball Player, Coach
"To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them."
Ram Dass
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun."
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"Anyone can say the love someone....It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love."
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"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."
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"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?"
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"You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything."
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"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."
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"Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that's what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him."
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"Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love."
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"Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with"
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"Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age."
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"Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong."
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"Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone."
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"A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way."
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"I think loving someone, despite what people think, is FEARLESS. <3"
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"Can you love someone you don't trust?" "Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance."
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"The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them."
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"I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have."
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"But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself."
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"You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart."
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"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."
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"I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species."
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