The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.
When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
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.
When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.