Being Loved Quotes - Page 6

• Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Singapore, Always Believe, Ifs

  "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 1998.

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• The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

  Aristotle

  Love, Finals, Causes

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• The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

  John Green

  Love, Heartbreak, Hands

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• We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Men, Light

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• Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Giving, Grace, Return

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.32, David C Cook

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• The love of a child is different from any other type of love on the planet. And being loved by your children is a love that is immense. I'm always so overwhelmed by how much my children love me. I think the best part of being a parent is feeling the love of a child.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Altered

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Cat's Table”, p.243, Random House

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• Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Important, Individual

  "Interview: Philip Yancey on U.S. Christianity, Faith That Matters". Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2010.

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• For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.

  Luke Davies

  Art, Memories, Reading

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• What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Knowing, People, Joy

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• I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Focused

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• If you've ever known the love of God, you know it's nothing but reckless and it's nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn't hurt it's probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don't really love Him, and they don't really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world, it's also the only thing that can bring us salvation and it's like everything else that is really wonderful, there's a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt.

  Rich Mullins

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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• Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?

  Nick Hornby

  Smart, Odds, People

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• In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.

  Katherine Dunn

  Strong, Pull Ups, Return

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.425, Vintage

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• We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

  Judith Viorst

  Self, Self Love, Infancy

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Luck, Misfortunes

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

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• Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

  Edith Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Emotional, Blood

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Just to love, that's enough; being loved, that's a bonus.

  Jack Hyles

  Bonus, Enough

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• Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

  Master P

  Country, Rap, Artist

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Ashamed

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• But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

  Betty Smith

  Parenting, Needs, Needed

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

  Alice Walker

  People, Feelings, Manage

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Real, Real Friends

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• Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

  Dodie Smith

  Love, Luxury, Return

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.255, St. Martin's Griffin

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• And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

  Carson McCullers

  Secret, Way, Truth Is

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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