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For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#love

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#desires #love #wants #love

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! ↗

— Victor Hugo

#grand thing #grander #love #loved #still

[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#devils #religion #saints #love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ↗

— David Viscott

#both #both sides #feel #loved #sides

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#men-and-women #love

that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

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It’s better to look at the sky than live there ↗

— Truman Capote

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Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#understanding #love