Human Love Quotes - Page 4

• Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

  Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

  Kindness, Government, Arrogance

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• The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.

  Christopher Fry

  Ambition, Animal, Frustration

  "Comedy". Vogue, January, 1951.

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• The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Marriage, Spiritual, Unions

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• Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.

  Ouida

  Angel, Passion, Rose

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Future, Heaven, Might

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Angel, Knowing

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• Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

  Lester Levenson

  Love Is, Giving, Divine

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• Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Believe, Effort

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• There is no love.
  There's only love of men and women, love
  Of children, love of friends, of men, of God:
  Divine love, human love, parental love,
  Roughly discriminated for the rough.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Children, Men

  Robert Frost (1949). “Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949”, New York : H. Holt

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• I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong

  Desmond Tutu

  Commitment, Law, Doubt

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• A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment.

  Kathleen Norris

  Love, Running, Struggle

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.62, Paulist Press

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• In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Song, Night, Bird

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• All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Love, God, Flames

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• No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Knowing, Desire, Firsts

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• Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

  Boethius

  Intellectual, Suffering, Love And Friendship

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• If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

  Andrew Solomon

  Loss, Different, Would Be

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Aggression, Humans

  "The Major Works of Sigmund Freud".

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• It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. . . The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.

  Thomas Goddard Bergin

  Men, Sky, Space

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• The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Relationship, Change

  "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog". Book by Bruce D. Perry, 2006.

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• But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

  Jane Goodall

  Compassion, Order, Heritage

  Jane Goodall (2010). “Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home:For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy: I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ: I give Thee thanks, O God.

  John Baillie

  Jesus, Strong, Home

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone's love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.

  John Welwood

  Giving, Perfect, Scary

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?

  Velcrow Ripper

  Love, Beautiful, Heart

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• It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

  Jane Rule

  Love, Teacher, Kindness

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