Love gives without taking ...
by Erica Jong

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

Related topics: Love Romantic Inspirational

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong

Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong

The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong

He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong

Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong

We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong

If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles

This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz

If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)

All you need is love.
- John Lennon

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie