Lovers Quotes - Page 38

• A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Women, Wine

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

  Rumi

  Love, Paradise, Resurrection

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• The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Loyalty, Realizing

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• Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it hits the Earth.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Love, Fall, Raindrops

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• If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

  Rumi

  Love, Passionate, Reckoning

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• To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

  Eve Ensler

  Dream, Pain, Women

  Eve Ensler (1998). “The Vagina Monologues”, Villard Books

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• When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Believe, Sin

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• The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religion, Church, Beloved

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• Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Theologian, Knows

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.10, Ignatius Press

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• Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Stars, Optimistic

  Barack Obama's Statment on the Passing of Leonard Nimoy, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 27, 2015.

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• Naked in front of strangers? I can barely be naked in front of my lovers; in front of myself.

  Clara

  Naked, Stranger, My Lover

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• From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Moving, Want

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• He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
  have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
  target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
  end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
  lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
  freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Humorous, Men

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.122

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• But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Trying, Different

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• I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

  John Philip Sousa

  Respect, Believe, Cities

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• My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Love, Husband, Children

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics

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• You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Mother, Children

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• May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

  Rumi

  Love, Sweet, Laughter

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• A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Moon, Age

  "Kubla Khan" l. 12 (1816)

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• Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul into the liaison. In the the woman he decided to take as a lover. A shiver ran through her at the thought. To be the object of such ferocious regard was an alluring prospect, but it also gave her pause.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Love, Focus, Soul

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• That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Love, Taken, Eye

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• You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thieves, Done, Murder

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• Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Ocean, Moving

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• The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Desire, Quests, Unions

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• [O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

  Fisher Ames

  Country, Government, Essence

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