“The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.”
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Love Quotes — page 128 of 1037
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder”
“Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after `more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.”
“Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'”
“I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.”
“The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love”
“'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?'”
“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”
“Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.”
“Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.”
“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
“That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3”
“You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.”
“You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess, and lonely, and His or Her child. God loved you no matter how crazy you felt on the inside, no matter what a fake you were; always, even in your current condition, even before coffee. God loves you crazily, like I love you...like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.”
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart”
“Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.”
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.”
“What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?”