Being Loved Quotes - Page 5

• If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

  Daniel Pauly

  Children, Thinking, Ifs

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• To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.

  Osamu Dazai

  Love, Lying, Fall

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

  Kim Wilde

  Brother, Father, School

  The Face magazine, March 1982.

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• Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Love You, Culture, Our Society

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• In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Passion, Heart

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.

  Lester Levenson

  Capacity To Love, Feelings, Asking

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• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Acceptance, Age, Bearable

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• Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Black And White, Important, Violence

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

  Robert Dessaix

  Two, Creative, Literature

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Being punished doesn't mean you should miss out on being loved.

  Shaun Hutchinson

  Mean, Missing, Should

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• As a kid, I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?

  Sandra Bernhard

  Kids, Love Is, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.

  Michael Jackson

  Memories, Unconditional Love, Acceptance

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• This president [Barack Obama] has had weak leadership, which has led to bad choices. We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Worry, Choices

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

  Anne Sewitsky

  Feelings, Needs, Shame

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Self, Joy

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 21, 2017

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• The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

  Theophile Gautier

  Patience, Years, Meditation

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• Being loved keeps you young.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Young Love, Young

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• But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know
  The first cut is the deepest.

  Cat Stevens

  First Love, Cutting, Firsts

  Song: The First Cut Is The Deepest

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• Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Self Confidence, Mountain, Missionary

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely loving, as if I were enveloped by the music of a love song created just for me. It was not overwhelming or even emotional. Just a warm knowing that I was in God's loving embrace...centered and unified there. [Love]encounters cannot be analyzed, only shared. If you take a butterfly, Robert Frost said, and pin it down into a box, you no longer have a butterfly.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Song, Butterfly, Emotional

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• Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

  Paul David Tripp

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Self

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• What uneasiness lies in being loved.

  Osamu Dazai

  Lying, Uneasiness

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

  John Dufresne

  Lovers, Goodness, Capable

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.199, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

  George Vaillant

  Tolerate, Hard

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