Those We Love Quotes - Page 7

• We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.

  Judith Viorst

  Letting Go, Dream, Moving

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• Remember,even if we can't see them, those we love are always with us.

  Lucinda Riley

  Remember, Ifs

  Lucinda Riley (2014). “The Midnight Rose: A Novel”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love

  Michael Xavier

  Dark, Sides, Dark Side

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• And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Beautiful, Love Is, Life Is

  "Alice Herz-Sommer: 'Everything we experience is a gift we should pass on'" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake yourself into something you're not. Just try making the best of what God made. The sacred art and craft of nurturing our souls and the souls of those we love is Simple Abundance soulcraft. Begin today by turning on the Light.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Art, Simple, Love Is

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• How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Giving

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Mar 24, 2017

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• God created you with special talents for a purpose, and sometimes those we love most don't understand that. Don't let the doubts of others ring louder than God's whispers to your spirit. Sometimes God's whispers are harder to hear, but they're to be trusted the most.

  Tricia Goyer

  Doubt, Special, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Dec 30, 2013

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• If we fail to give our time with those we love, one day we will live to regret it.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Regret, Giving, One Day

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• The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Letting Go, Return

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• One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Blessing, Age, Treasure

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.

  Martha Stewart

  Beautiful, Dream, Home

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• Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Willing, Dies

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• We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective

  Justin Somper

  Perspective, Helping, Determined

  Justin Somper (2008). “Vampirates: Blood Captain”, p.300, Hachette UK

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• By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mistake, Imagine, Virtue

  "Ariadne". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

  Earl Nightingale

  Happiness, Giving, Way

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• Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Goodbye, Self

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.245

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• Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Change, Death

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• To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

  Wendell Willkie

  Love, Hate, Loss

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “One World”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

  Leigh Hunt

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Leigh Hunt's Works”

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• Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

  Paul Bloom

  Appreciation, Lying, Facts

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• Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

  Julian Assange

  Love, Courage, Character

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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• The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Idols, Degrees, Sticks

  Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (1992). “Madame Bovary: provincial lives”, Penguin USA

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• The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love.

  Michael John LaChiusa

  Soul, Way, Life Is

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• How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

  Sonia Johnson

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Wish

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• A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

  Hakim Bey

  Fate, Self, People

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