Accepting Quote by Barbara Marciniak

“The purpose behind discerning the nature of love is not to satisfy ivory tower discussions or to produce fodder for academic delectation. Instead, as…

— Thomas Lewis

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect,…

— Bell Hooks

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for…

— Anonymous

Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or…

— Anonymous

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without…

— Sarah Fielding

“A person’s unfilled desire to find love causes human beings to engage in inexplicable behavior. A person must exhibit the maturity of the soul…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love,…

— Mark Van Doren

The truth is, those people we feel drawn to most might not be intended as love interests, but rather as life-changing, life-altering presences that…

— Tonya Hurley

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

— Tony Judt

“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission is, of…

— Marcel Proust

Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this…

— Bell Hooks

Choose to love someone that you love and then what they come with; but the world's love choose to love with what people come…

— Geraldine Vermaak