“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
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Love Quotes — page 17 of 1037
“I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.”
“The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”
“You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.”
“Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.”
“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”
“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety.”
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
“Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
“She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.”
“I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.”
“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.”
“My dream? To make women happier and more beautiful.”
“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
“To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.”
“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.”
“An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”
“I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.”