Holly Hood says I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time…

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Attempted Love

“So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. I’m a great multi-tasker.”

– Holly Hood, Prison of Paradise

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Steve Maraboli says it is only with true love and compassion…

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Attempted Love

“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.” 

– Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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Paulo Coelho says it’s happened before, it will happen again…

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Attempted Love

“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive–I’ll find love again.”

– Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

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Matthew Kelly says life is about love…

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Attempted Love

“Life is about love. It’s about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life’s about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life’s about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.”

– Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy:  The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

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Rumi says there are lovers content with longing…

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Attempted Love

“There are lovers content with longing.
I’m not one of them.”

– Rumi

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Susan Sontag says I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my path…

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Attempted Love

“I have always been full of lust – as I am now – but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.”

– Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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Stefan Zweig says a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again…

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Attempted Love

“…when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.”

– Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

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