“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing whatever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you’ve made.” ―Margaret Atwood
Love
If Your Mind Is Sharp…
“If your mind is sharp, your words will wound.” ―Sanjai Velayudhan
That’s kind of the point. 😉
But Many Of Us Seek Community
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” ―Bell Hooks
I Believe That Unarmed Truth…
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” ―Martin Luther King Jr.
It Is An Absolute Human Certainty…
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ―John Joseph Powell
A Profound Love…
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”
―Ursula K. Le Guin
Human Beings Are Funny
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”
―Sigmund Freud
I Love You Not Only For What You Are…
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” ―Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Loving You…
“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.” ―Warsan Shire
That Kind of Love…
“That kind of love should’ve been able to beat sickness. That kind of love should’ve conquered anything.”
―Jennifer L. Armentrout
Written by LISA MARINO-Molchanova 