“You haven't loved yet," he said. "You've only been trying to love; beginning to love. Trust alone is not love, illusion is not love, desire alone is not love. All these were paths leading you out o...”

— Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

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“He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, th...”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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“Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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“I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning”

— we had just about decided that the man with a lot of animals couldn't be expected to feel affection for individuals among them. But those buildings back there were full of John Skipton's animals - he must have hundreds. Yet what made him trail down that hillside every day in all weathers? Why had he filled the last years of those two old horses with peace and beauty? Why had he given them a final ease and comfort which he had withheld from himself? It could only be love.

James Herriot All Creatures Great and Small

“A mother isn’t the person who births you”

— it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

Raquel Cepeda Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“The fact that you can act with love even when you don’t feel love is very empowering. Why? Because whereas the feelings of love are fleeting and largely out of your control, you can take the action...”

— Russ Harris, ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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“He explained that unlike our other classes in the program, research was all about prediction and control. I was smitten. You mean that rather than leaning and holding, I could spend my career predi...”

— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

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“It's not equality that counts, it's reprocity that counts. Love is not like a balance sheet. There's no such thing as double-entry accounting when it comes to love.”

— Debra Ollivier, What French Women Know About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind

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