~ Love Quotes ~
RISK AND FEAR
'The Wedding of St. George and the Princess Sabra,' by Rossetti (detail)
"Loving, knowing that you are going to get hurt, is like living knowing that you are going to die. But not loving so you don't get hurt, is like killing yourself before you die."
-Anonymous

"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all."
-Thomas Hardy

"He who has been smitten by the arrows of love never again fears any other wound."
-Author Unknown

"Love can be scary, but love can not be based on fear."
-Long Dinh

"There are only two real choices to be made.  You can choose between love and fear."
-Author Unknown

"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."
-Unknown 

"To fear love is to fear life."
-Bertrand Russell

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?  Love is really all it's cracked up to be.  That's why people are so cynical about it...  It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.  And the problem is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."
-Erica Jong

"Every day I live, I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."
-Mary Cholmondeley

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
-Barbara DeAngelis

"You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved."
-Author Unknown

"Beware of her fair locks, for when she winds them round a young man's neck, she will not set him free again." 
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"Love is like being naked in the daylight instead of just having your clothes off in the dark."
-Ashley Wood

”To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.”
-J.E. Buchrose

“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.”
-Merle Shain

"Those who are faithless know the pleasures of Love; it is the faithful who know Love's tragedies."
-Oscar Wilde 

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
-William Shakespeare

"To achieve the ultimate love takes the ultimate sacrifice.  I'd rather love without life, than live without love."
-"Les Vierges"

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