Loving Something Quotes

• If you love something, set it free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Modern Family, Getting Back Together

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• I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.

  Graham Greene

  Love You, Dark, Light

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• The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

  Richard Bach

  Healing, Creative, Healthy

  Richard Bach (2007). “Messiah’s Handbook”, p.123, Jaico Publishing House

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• I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.

  Mel Brooks

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2009.

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• The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Believe, Reading, People

  "The Night Circus's dazzling, high-wire debut". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2011.

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• Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Passion, Suffering, Enough

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• What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Mean, Frustrated, What If

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• I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

  Mario Batali

  Boys, Two, Wife

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• She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stars, Sadness, Knowing

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• His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Ocean, Eye

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Betrayal, Littles, Protection

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• Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

  J. D. Salinger

  Doe, Sentimentality

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