John Lennon says we need to learn to love ourselves first…

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”

– John Lennon

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Cara Lockwood says true love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are…

“True love is taking the risk that it won’t be a happily-ever-after.  True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, I’m not afraid to believe in you.”

– Cara Lockwood, I Do (But I Don’t)

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James Baldwin says love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without…

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

– James Baldwin

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Oprah Winfrey says if we deny love that is given to us…

“If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.”

– Oprah Winfrey

 

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William S. Burroughs says there is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt…

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt.  It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”

– William S. Burroughs

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Ruth Wind says his passion she had expected, even his expertise…

“His passion she had expected, even his expertise, for a man of his years would not have been without women. She had even, in the long days of yearning, suspected his tenderness, which led him now to kiss her temples and the inner crook of her elbow with the same attention he gave to her lips and breasts. 
What she had not anticipated was that he would be vulnerable as well.

– Ruth Wind, The Light of Day

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Diane Ackerman says love requires the utmost vulnerability…

“We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

– Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love

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