I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
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Related Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father,” Will said. “That for my father, there was on... CASSANDRA CLARE Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Lo... DEB CALETTI I rather still be love blind, then to see the reality of him loving someone else DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ Love isn't blind, but love makes people blind. JEANBULATAO Passion is momentary; love is enduring. JOHN WOODEN I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask ... MOTHER TERESA The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I don't believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from af... KHLOE KARDASHIAN I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest. MARIE DE FRANCE I love you," she said wretchedly. “And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from y... LISA KLEYPAS It is not 'I trust because I love you'. It is 'I love you because I trust you'. EPHDAN It is not 'I trust you because I love you'. It is rather the reverse 'I love you because I trust you... EPHDAN A man's desire is to find a good woman, that can make him smile, a woman that can understand him and... LIAH BARE I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it's not something I love... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that... MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that... MARINA TSVETAEVA It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through t... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Why is love such a sorrowful thing, this I never could understand; passion and pain are linked toget... LAURENCE HOPE Love is not blind as said; it only makes you unconscious. KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Do what you love with strong passion and your dreams will become a reality SUNALLURE In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love LORD BYRON Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is be... SUSAN FORWARD We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it i... THICH NHAT HANH Swimming is my passion and something that I love. NATALIE DU TOIT I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will ... KURT VONNEGUT JR. I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is ... DAVE SITEK You are the most beautiful creature on this earth.", said the blind husband to his wife. PARUL AGRAWAL Love with passion what you do…
Success is the natural result of that love! ROXANA JONES There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,... CASSANDRA CLARE There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I d... CASSANDRA CLARE I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. H... JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you,” he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He ... JOHN GREEN Love is when you take away the feeling, the
passion, the romance and you find out you still care
for... OLASOT The Lonliest Man in the World, she said, only has room in his heart for one person, and if he can't ... GARTH RISK HALLBERG Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willi... JOHN SCHNEIDER Do what you love & do it with passion . Passion is the fire that lights your way. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Their is no greater passion than love and no greater love than that of gods ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it. BEN DANIELS You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. JULIE DE LESPINASSE You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my sou... JULIE DE LESPINASSE Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. DAVID WILKERSON Elektra met Matt, and she fell in love with him. And I think he brought some good out of her at some... ELODIE YUNG Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship, and find out... UNKNOWN Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and p... OMAR SHARIF They say love is blind...but it isn't. Love is perfect sight. Love is the ability to see a person, I... MARLON PIERRE-ANTOINE You MUST do what you love. Sometimes your passion will be the only thing that keeps you motivated. FAYDRA D. FIELDS It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said. Nash thought about tha... KRISTIN CASHORE For when it comes, she is gone, and sometimes I wonder whether she and I will ever love again. NICHOLAS SPARKS you need to have passion to be in love, and to live upto love need passion as well . SADIQ AMIN All the things I love is what my business is all about. MARTHA STEWART Accounts are not quite settled between us,' said she, with a passion that equaled my own. 'I can lov... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it i... THICH NHAT HANH We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it i... NHAT HANH Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: i... THOMAS TRYON Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman l... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman l... LORD BYRON To live this life, my friends, you have to have a genuine passion. Nothing artificial. To live this ... PREM RAWAT She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... MERVYN PEAKE Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without pa... TONI SORENSON The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with sil... ROMAN PAYNE If love is our passion, then passion should be our love. ANUJ SOMANY My passion is very much along the line of Nelson's in this case. I love the Montana and I love her s... ANNALIES CORBIN A woman should say: ''Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me ... BARBARA CARTLAND A woman should say: Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me be... BARBARA CARTLAND Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out... ROLAND ALLEN To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I... GENE SIMMONS Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, ev... LEO TOLSTOY My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you ... AFROJACK Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart! TORQUATO TASSO If you have a passion, find what your passion is. When I go into work, I feel like I'm going to play... CHARLES CAMARDA The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love. C. JOYBELL C. We make love every single day — no matter what. She is the only woman I’ve seen that gets more b... TARRYN FISHER I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion. ANONYMOUS I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I... GENE SIMMONS Love is the only gold. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or w... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that ... LESTER HOLT If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out. RANDY PAUSCH Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong... SAINT BERNARD I think she loves him," Lissa said. "And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someo... SARAH DESSEN You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,... SUDHIR KAKAR A blind person, in reality, is the only person who can truly see. They know first hand what true lo... PAUL ACQUASANTA I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus... NEIL GAIMAN It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said. Nash thought about tha... KRISTIN CASHORE A man can be himself only so long as he is alone;
if he does not love solitude, he will not love fre... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER You can love a person for walking the same roads as you every dusk or dawn. You can love a person a ... MARIANA FULGER Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think ... TERRY GOODKIND There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. WILLIAM GODWIN In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th... ORSON SCOTT CARD Love is not blind, If it is why can I see you ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you... JOHN GREEN for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you. FULTON J. SHEEN I love to work. I have a passion for what I do. MILLARD DREXLER Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer... J. KRISHNAMURTI
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FORSTER Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. E. M. FORSTER We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next. E. M. FORSTER The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in... E. M. FORSTER Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. E. M. FORSTER Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. E. M. FORSTER Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to l... E. M. FORSTER Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. E. M. FORSTER Love is always being given where it is not required. E. M. FORSTER The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in... E. M. FORSTER Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. E. M. FORSTER I'm a holy man minus the holiness. E. M. FORSTER A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ... E. M. FORSTER The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should ... E. M. FORSTER Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him. E. M. FORSTER The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of an... E. M. FORSTER Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. FORSTER Unless we remember we cannot understand. E. M. FORSTER We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the stat... E. M. FORSTER Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. FORSTER America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be inter... E. M. FORSTER There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one d... E. M. FORSTER Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ... E. M. FORSTER Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both wil... E. M. FORSTER Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves... E. M. FORSTER I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people... E. M. FORSTER Ideas are fatal to caste. E. M. FORSTER Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orde... E. M. FORSTER Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wr... E. M. FORSTER As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e... E. M. FORSTER Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t... E. M. FORSTER Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief. E. M. FORSTER