Those We Love Quotes - Page 5

• It is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet we do, all of us. We can take any freedom with a friend; we stand on no ceremony with a friend.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Love Is, Usage, Mark

  "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

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• We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love Is, Upset, Trying

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• If we keep this question in mind while planning our days, we will see that we actually have countless opportunities to add to our life force. Being around people and places we love and doing things that give us deep satisfaction, taking time to digest the events in our lives, being less busy, telling the truth, laughing a lot, eating right, exercising regularly, having long talks with those we love-these are among the best ways to nourish our vitality. Our life force thrives when we are completely engaged in the present moment.

  Debbie Ford

  Exercise, Power, Opportunity

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• The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly
  themselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Relationship, Unconditional Love, Reflection

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

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• I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by Shakespeare than they are by the experience of our own lives.

  Harold Bloom

  Hate, Thinking, Feelings

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• Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Broken, Suffering, Tears

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• I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Hate, Self, Feelings

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• Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.

  Wynonna Judd

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• Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Sound, Lions, Innocent

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• This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.

  Omid Safi

  Community, Sap, Ease

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• We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

  Ruth Rendell

  Enemy, Faces, Forget

  Ruth Rendell (1994). “Talking to Strange Men”, Arrow

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• Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

  Bill Crawford

  Practice, Old Habits, Way

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• Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

  James Howell

  Real, Distance, Loss

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• By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

  William Hazlitt

  Revenge, Accomplishment, Suffering

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.495

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• If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

  Alyson Richman

  Dream, Awake, Torment

  Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.206, Penguin

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• To those we love best we say the least

  John Ray

  Love Is

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• Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

  Emily Dickinson

  Should

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.368, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• The heart and life of a woman is much more vast than that. All women are made in the image of God in that we bring forth life. When we offer our tender and strong feminine hearts to the world and to those we love, we cannot help but mother them.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Inspirational, Mother, Religious

  Stasi Eldredge (2009). “You Are Captivating: Celebrating a Mother's Heart”, p.77, Thomas Nelson

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• Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But with it come quiet thoughts and quickened memories. And what else shall a man do except become reconciled? What purpose does he serve by fighting what he cannot touch or by brooding upon what he cannot change?

  Richard L. Evans

  Peace, Memories, Fighting

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• It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

  Anne Bronte

  Doubt, Painful, Sincerity

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• And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Kissing, Blessing

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 2, song (added 1850)

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• Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Frustration, People, Feelings

  Lysa TerKeurst (2013). “Unglued Participant's Guide: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions”, p.8, Zondervan

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• I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life.  I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son.  Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy.  I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.  Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful.  Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Beautiful, Mother, Husband

  "Alice Herz-Sommer: 'Everything we experience is a gift we should pass on'" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Love Is, Protect, Well Being

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.

  Patrick Shade

  Weather, Agency, Growth

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