Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.
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NATHANIEL BRANDEN Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will ... WILLIAM LAW Where there is love, there will be an abundance of success and love. However, love is something with... VISHWAS CHAVAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN Love is . . . Being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when th... SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, wi... SHANNON L. ALDER Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual ... M. SCOTT PECK May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always understand. May the pain you hav... 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VISHWAS CHAVAN Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman,... ANDREA DWORKIN As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and o... GIACOMO CASANOVA Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the ex... M. SCOTT PECK You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desir... JAMES JOYCE The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and i... GERMAINE GREER I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and ... SHAILENE WOODLEY The beauty of Love is that it can be possessed individually as well as in Union. You can love even i... ASHISH SOPHAT This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Loving yourself is of vital importance. 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JONATHAN SWIFT I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. JONATHAN MILLER For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e... JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow. JONATHAN WESTOVER I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations , JONATHAN KOZOL What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ... JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men... JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk. JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t... JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib... JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a... JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly. JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see. JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh... JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse w... JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte... JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r... JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr... JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ... JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,... JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter. JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster. JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into... JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a
pitchfork. JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi... JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, ... JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. JONATHAN SWIFT