Love, the most volitional and significant feeling that people can have is love. It can make us happy and joyful, but then can also make us lose all our spirits. The contradiction between the two feelings – love and pain – remains the most popular theme in many literary works, essays, and philosophic writings.
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In today’s post, we present you with 15 quotes that speak of love as a beautiful feeling for which one can give anything, but which also inevitably brings pain and sorrow.
1. "The strongest and most genuine love is the most difficult to explain. It is not something that explodes and burns; but rather something that grows deep and slow." - John Ruskin
In most instances, it is not a storm that drives people into each other’s arms. Most of us mistook infatuation for true love, which can only be nurtured, and fostered and depends on the degree of trust.
2. "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones; as the wind extinguishes the candle and kindles the fire." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is here that distance becomes a kind of trial for a relationship, but the strong love goes through it as through fire.
3. "Love is a two-way street constantly under construction." - Carroll Bryant
Love is not a feeling that should be felt, but a process that should be sustained through proper communication between the two partners. That’s the catch – it is the process that is priceless – not the product that some self-help authors would have you believe is out there waiting to be consumed.
4. "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary
More often than not, love is complicated by one’s own inability to step over the hurdles of doubts and shreds of fear.
5. "The course of true love never did run smooth." - William Shakespeare
That’s why Shakespeare might have been absolutely right when he wrote about life being a stage and people being actors on this stage. Both incorporation of challenges as well as molding them into a union’s strength is viable.
6. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
Love adds the value of warmth, protection, and being an important part of someone’s life. It is the ultimate state from the hormonal level to the level of the entire organism, each individual, family, and society.
7. "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." - Blaise Pascal
Love is often irrational. Love is two individuals who cannot seem to have a logical reason why they are in love with the other.
8. "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell." - Joan Crawford
Interestingly, love has the potential to bring joy but if misplaced it can also bring misery. The opportunity to have such a supply and demand concentration is a worthy risk.
9. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Henry David Thoreau
Each of these two options has benefits and drawbacks and to get the best results one must combine them in a way that will bring the benefits of both while avoiding the drawbacks: To sum it all up, the question of how to heal from the heartbreak does not have a definite answer. Find a new relationship in the form of a love relationship or friendship, or try to develop self-acceptance and compassion for yourself.
10. "You can't buy love, but you can pay dearly for it." - Mae West
They learned that love does not come cheap, especially if it is the kind of love that lasts a lifetime. Sometimes that cost is exposing our feelings openly and the possibility of being rejected or hurt.
11. "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
Remember to value friendship and love with those individuals who make you happy and put smiles on your face.
12. "The only true wealth is the one that you get by giving." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love’s the greatest treasure: The joy’s not in what I get But in sharing what I have with her.
13. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball
Love which comes from oneself is indeed the key to creating healthy relationships. There is no possibility to love the other person and be indifferent to themselves.
14. "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." - The Beatles
Love is a reciprocal process that involves developing positive feelings toward an individual and in return being loved. In view of the above facts, one can make a conclusion that love is the key to success, and the more love is given, the more it will be received in return.
15. "We accept the love we think we deserve." - Stephen Chbosky
The value system determines the chances and opportunities that one receives in their life. Self-actualization in the context of human sexuality also needs to be worked on to be ready for the real thing.