βYou want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.β
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzscheattractionpretense
Mind & Emotion Β· 66 authors
Quotes on the depth and many forms of love. Warm reflections on caring for people and life itself.
βIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?β
β Igor Stravinsky
βYou want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.β
βLove a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.β
βAbsence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.β
βIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?β
βA mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.β
βMore than kisses, letters mingle souls.β
βI flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.β
βThe strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.β
βTo fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.β
βLove grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.β
βTread lightly, she is near under the snow. Speak gently, she can hear. The daisies grow.β
βLove: Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that throb as one.β
βIt is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.β
βOpen rebuke is better than secret love.β
βBitterness imprisons life; love releases it.β
βWe pardon to the extent that we love.β
βWhenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.β
βLove ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.β
βHe who cannot love must learn to flatter.β
βHe who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.β
βLove is not love until love is vulnerable.β
βLove is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.β
βImmature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'β
βLove isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.β
βBeauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.β
βFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.β
βLove is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.β
βA true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.β
βBlood has to circulate from head to foot; Love has to circulate from high to low.β
βDo not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.β
βHow bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!β
βOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.β
βLove is more afraid of change than destruction.β
βTo learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.β
βLove is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.β
βLove is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.β
βAll lovers swear more performance than they are able.β
βLove is not singular except in syllable.β
βLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.β
βLove is the ultimate expression of the will to live.β
βLove is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.β
βLove means to commit yourself without guarantee.β
βLove looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.β
βWhen one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.β
βLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries; without them humanity cannot survive.β
βWhere love reigns the impossible may be attained.β
βPure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.β
βIntense love does not measure; it just gives.β
βWe are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.β
βLove is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.β