Being Loved Quotes

• There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

  Charles Morgan

  Love, Godly, Men

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• What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Wisdom, Stills

  Victor Hugo (1864). “Les misérables”, p.320, VOOK

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• To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

  George MacDonald

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "The Marquis of Lossie".

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Best Friend

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Who, being loved, is poor?

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Positive, Poverty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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• How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Sigmund Freud (1960). “Letters”

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• What is done in love is done well.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Positivity, Positive Life

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 483, 2006.

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Life, Strength

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  Laozi

  Love, Wisdom, Passion

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• Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Sympathy, Wedding Anniversary

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Life, Memories

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, January, 2005.

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• I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.

  Charles Hanson Towne

  Valentines Day, Falling In Love, Eye

  Charles Hanson Towne (1908). “The Quiet Singer: And Other Poems”

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• To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

  Timothy Keller

  Relationship, Marriage, Commitment

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

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• To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Expectations, Short Love

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  "Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

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• Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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