"In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist."

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Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

Nancy Spain

#Love Is Quotes #Romantic Love Quotes #Realist Quotes

“Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.”

Source : Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, p.48, Image
“In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.”
“It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.”
“Rules cannot take the place of character.”
“There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.”
“We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.”

Source : Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.7, Da Capo Press
“How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-”
“I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.”

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