Being Loved Quotes - Page 4

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

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Expectations, Short Love

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To love is to risk not being loved in return.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Love Is, Deep Love

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Life, Pain

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• If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

  Thomas Merton

  Simplicity, Overcoming, Firsts

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.213, Shambhala Publications

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• This is the hope of many adolescent girls--to capture a parent's heart with love for them as they are, as people. They reject thenotion of being loved just because they are the child of the parent. They want the parent to fall in love with them all over again, because being new, they deserve a new love.

  Terri E Apter

  Girl, Falling In Love, Children

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• Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.

  Hjalmar Söderberg

  Consciousness, Drag, Humans

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• The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Writing, Fire

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.112, Knopf

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• Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 03, 2014

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• old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Acceptance, Age, Bearable

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• I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.

  Lester Levenson

  Capacity To Love, Feelings, Asking

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• Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.

  Vera Brittain

  Baby, Children, Husband

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• The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Farewell, Half

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• If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

  Daniel Pauly

  Children, Thinking, Ifs

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• Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Love Is, Infallible

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• In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Passion, Heart

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Selfish, Believe

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• You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

  Erica Jong

  Confidence, People, Encounters

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• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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