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Quotes About Loving

This is a poem about death, about the heart blanching in its fold of shadows because it knows someday it will be the fish and the wave and no longer itself— it will be those white wings, flying in and out of the darkness but not knowing it— this is a poem about loving the world and everything in it: the self, the perpetual muscle, the passage in and out, the bristling swing of the sea.
~ Mary Oliver
Compassion and acceptance; stigma and defusion. As described thus far, acceptance and defusion seem, superficially, to be intrapsychic issues, but self-as-context expands their nature. Because perspective taking is social, it is not possible to take a loving, open, accepting, and active perspective on yourself without doing likewise for others.
~ Steven C. Hayes
God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.
~ Miroslav Volf
Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.
~ Pope Francis
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
~ Alan W. Watts
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another.
~ Erma Bombeck
if you will listen to the call of that Source and Vibrationally feel for it, and listen and move consistently in the direction of the thoughts that feel better, you will, before you know it, close the Vibrational gap between you and You on every subject that's active within you; and you will then be the joyous, progressive, fulfilled, intuitive, loving, vital, exhilarated Being that you were born to be.
~ Esther Hicks
Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless—that's your job, to bless.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless—that's your job, to bless. You'll be a blessing and also get a blessing.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I can be cuddly. Corbin's voice dropped and his eyes were hooded. And tender, and gentle, and passionate.
~ Evangeline Anderson
The Bruce I knew back then was an easygoing, down-to-earth, casual, romantic, good and loving man. I was extremely happy to have found such a remarkable partner with whom to share my life.
~ Linda Thompson
Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change.
~ Bernard J.F. Lonergan
Those who are in famine will always listen to those with food. The problem has been that we in the Body of Christ haven't looked as though we have any food. We've looked no different from the rest of the world. Christians have been taught that the power of God is no longer available today, and they have protested against sinners rather than loving them.
~ Bill Johnson
She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.
~ Guy de Maupassant
I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I'm quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I'm just really loving it and feeling great, and it's all over.
~ Miranda Otto
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.
~ Cornel West
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making
~ Reba McEntire
God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.
~ Pope Francis
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
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~ Max Lucado
Her nose wrinkled and she cast him a cautious but hopeful look. "Perhaps your seed has already taken root. We should wait to see if that is the case. 'Tis truth you've no skill at loving, and 'tis obvious I've none as well.
~ Maya Banks
she should trust their hopeful image of a kind, loving, and gracious God. It simply added up.
~ Melody Carlson
To practice the art of loving we have first to choose love—admit to ourselves that we want to know love and be loving even if we do not know what that means.
~ bell hooks
If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so mystifying.
~ bell hooks