The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Love
Category: Relationships, Relating, Couples (BB276)Originally Submitted on 9/8/2001.
1. Love is knowing.
Love is when you don't have to finish the sentence. -- Truman Capote
2. Love is psychosexual abnormality.
That psychosexual abnormality known as falling in love, with its heady mixture of ecstasy and misery, has always had and no doubt always will have its place in the human psyche. But it is NOT a basis for cohabitation, let alone a lifetime contract. -- Abraham Maslow
3. Love is shared excitement.
Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement. -- Nathaniel Branden
4. Love is laboring for something.
God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to labor for something and to make something grow -- that love and labor are inseparable. One loves that for which one labors, and one labors for that which one loves. -- Erich Fromm
5. Love is developed.
The desire to love is, by itself, only the first step. The ability to love must be developed by practising it with consistency and determination using the situations of our lives. -- Richard Keyes
6. Love is not a feeling.
Love is an act, not a feeling. -- Unknown
7. Love is possible.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. --Janos Arany
8. Love is perhaps sustained by laughter.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden
9. Love is measured by fullness.
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes. Say it again, say it again, louder louder: HEAR ME>>http://www.pagoo.com/signature/susanhas1n2
10. Love is astonishing.
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- Andre Maurois
About the Submitter
This piece was originally submitted by Susan Dunn, M.A., Clinical Psychology, Momentum Coaching, a full-service professional practice, who can be reached at sdunn@susandunn.cc, or visited on the web. Susan Dunn wants you to know: Coaching clients to find out what they want and then get it.
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