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Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

— Kent Nerburn

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.

— Michael W. Smith

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

— Leo Buscaglia

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

— Octavio Paz

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

— Wayne Dyer

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

— Nhat Hanh

Love is always being given where it is not required.

— E. M. Forster

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

— Anthony Trollope

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't believe love is fickle. I believe when you love someone, you are allowed to love from afar. You don't have to be with that person in order to love him.

— Khloe Kardashian

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

— Hannah More