Those We Love Quotes - Page 4

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Strong, Children

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

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• You hurt any of us or those we love again and so help me, I won’t stop until I’ve pulled you into so many pieces, you’ll think you’ve been through a grinder. (Fang)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Thinking, Pieces

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• I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a Godlike state.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Exercise, Quality

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• If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

  Mitch Albom

  Goodbye, Sleep, Should Have

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hurt, Pain, Broken

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.173, Macmillan

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• I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

  Richard Russo

  Regret, Father, Feelings

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• But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Hands, Idols, Love Always

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “Madame Bovary - Interactive Bilingual Edition (English / French): A Classic of French Literature from the prolific French writer, known for Salammbô, Sentimental Education, Bouvard et Pécuchet, November and Three Tales”, p.199, e-artnow

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• Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

  Graham Greene

  Revenge, Worry, Tests

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Love, Friendly, Amusement

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• There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Relationship, Smile, Im Sorry

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• We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.

  Juliet Marillier

  Decision, Faces, Love And Respect

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Seer of Sevenwaters”, p.433, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Heart, Might, Way

  Stewart O'Nan (2008). “The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy”, p.363, Anchor

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• We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

  Danielle Steel

  Wounds

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• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

  Thomas Merton

  Relationship, Spiritual, Inspirational Love

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• Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Criticism

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• There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Adventure, Life Is, Moments

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Worry, Giving

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• Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

  Lord Byron

  Unhappy, Literature, Sometimes

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• What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Regret, Twilight

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• When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Heartbreak, Divorce, Love Is

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.23, BookBaby

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• The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Beautiful, Flower, Love Is

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• It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

  John Powell

  Love Is, Giving, Self Love

  John Powell (1989). “Through Seasons of the Heart”, Thomas More Association

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• ... we are each shaped from our birth, not only by the blood and inheritance that lies behind us, but also by those we love and by whom we are loved in turn, by the knowledge given to our thirsty minds, to the learning of ourselves.

  Andre Norton

  Lying, Blood, Mind

  Andre Norton (2015). “Wraiths of Time”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.

  Bill Crawford

  Keys, Way, Teach

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