Loving Someone

There’s a pleasure to

There’s a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there’s no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive. Gabrielle Zevin

Happiness lies in a

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥ Everett Ruess

The most painful thing

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Ernest Hemingway

If a person loves

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm

Loving someone is a

Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else. Erica Jong

As the old saying

As the old saying goes, \”sometimes loving someone means letting them go. Ellen Hopkins

I love thee to

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they’re leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way. Edward Kennedy

Loving someone is different

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you’re in love with Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is what is

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. Friedrich Nietzsche