Forms Of Love Quotes - Page 2

• Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

  Terry Hayes

  Love Is, Compassion, People

  Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

  Klaus Mann

  Wind, Today, Becoming

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• The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

  John Lanchester

  Worry, Worried, Form

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.225, Faber & Faber

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• I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sex, Lgbt, Gay Pride

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• Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Hate, Love You

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.

  Arielle Ford

  Commitment, Responsibility, Acceptance

  "Wabi Sabi Love! A Q&A with Arielle Ford!". Interview with Mastin Kipp, thedailylove.com. January 24, 2013.

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• As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.

  Norman Maclean

  Gratitude, Biblical, Compassion

  Norman Maclean (2017). “Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love Is, Long, Form

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Buddhism, White

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• To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.

  Terry Goodkind

  Expansion, Denial, Form

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Temple Of The Winds”, p.513, Head of Zeus

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• No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love Is, Long, Form

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Long, Suffering, Trying

  Arthur Rimbaud (1974). “A Season in Hell: The Illuminations”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

  N. T. Wright

  Self, Objectivity, Knowing

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• All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Messages, Ignored

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.99, Penguin

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• Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Kindness, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.398, Random House

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• Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge

  Erich Fromm

  Giving, Facts, Elements

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

  Steig Larsson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Forgiveness, Men, God Love

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• Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Real, Two

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• Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only a little thought is necessary. There is no greater religion than love. God is love; and the best form of love is to be conscientious regarding the feelings of those with whom we come in contact in everyday life.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Adversity, Opportunity, Love Is

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1962). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan volume 6: The Alchemy of Happiness”

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• The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Men, Opposites

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• Money is a symbol of that life force, of its appreciation. Money can be a solidified form of love. Through the transfer of money, we facilitate love and communication with other humans. It offers us a simple system of providing for and loving and nurturing ourselves, and it is one way of expressing generosity and kindness for the less fortunate.

  Stuart Wilde

  Love, Appreciation, Kindness

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• Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.

  S.C. Stephens

  Hurt, People, Sometimes

  S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

  Albert Camus

  Facts, Strange, Rebellion

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

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• I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.

  Alice Munro

  Care, Might, Saws

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.354, Vintage

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