Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. — Anita Brookner
With true love it’s like seeing ghosts: everyone talks about it, but few have ever seen it. — German proverbs
Love is like wildflowers;
It's often found in the most unlikely places. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives. — Kate Mosse
You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery. — Kylie Minogue
Love is the wild card of existence. — Rita Mae Brown
True love is usually the most inconvenient kind. — Kiera Cass
Love is a serious mental disease. — Plato
Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it. — Robert Mitchum
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. — Francois Mauriac
Love is a promise; love is a souvenir. — John Lennon
Love is for free, just expensive to shop. — Rick Ross
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. — Jeremy Bentham
Love Is Rare Image Quotes
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
True Love Is Rare Quotes
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. — Nhat Hanh
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds — Michael Dorris
Unconditional love is felt but not understood. It’s genuinely built upon 'I love' and nothing more — no reasons or preconditions, no expectations and no demands, and consequently no disappointments. No thoughts! This is the only form of true love. It’s rare to find, but it’s real. — Mo Gawdat
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King
Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real. — Hilary Duff
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
True sorrow is as rare as true love. — Stephen King
Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes. — Gwendoline Christie
It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare. — Nancy Mitford
Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking. — Masha Tupitsyn
My Love Is Rare Quotes
My biggest weakness is steak. I have to be careful not to eat too much of it these days – but I do love it done medium rare, with peppercorn sauce. — Harry Kane
I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition. — Sayings
She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us. — D. H. Lawrence
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell
Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierceInto the heights of love's rare universe,Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy. — Meredith Brooks
I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love. — Lauren Conrad
I don’t have a problem with recognition ... It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’ ... It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality’. — C. C. H. Pounder
I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work. — Monica Ali
Real Is Rare Quotes
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know. — Carl Rogers
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. — Terry Riley
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history. — Stephen Jay Gould
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. — William Rotsler
The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona. — Sergio Aguero
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer. — May Sarton
We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us. — Jean Liedloff
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. — James Gould Cozzens
There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely. — Woody Allen
She Is Rare Quotes
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not. — Elizabeth Fry
To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin. — Libbie Block
Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there. — Oscar de la Renta
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his! — Michael Moorcock
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident. — B. C. Forbes
The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away. — Anne Lamott
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring. — Steve Antin
Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can also be extremely creative and has the audacity to musically understand all that she is doing. — Rufus Reid
Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach. — Ian McEwan
What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be. — Laura Riding
Being Rare Quotes
That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. — Ellen Hopkins
Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth. — Mooji
That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here. — Ellen Hopkins
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. — Thomas Wolfe
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. — Tom Wolfe
Massive success comes down to rare moments of opportunity. Be ready for it. They don't come by often. — Patrick Bet-David
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. — Kenneth Grahame
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. — Mark Twain
Rare Beauty Quotes
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham
Then came a moment of renaissance,
I looked up - you again are there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that`s beautiful and rare. — Alexander Pushkin
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity — Shane Koyczan
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. — Walt Disney
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. — James F. Byrnes
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. — S. D Gordon
That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing. — Karen Horney
I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian. — Sacha Baron Cohen
Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare. — Mark Twain
You Are Rare Quotes
Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you — Lemmy Kilmister
I remember when I fell from my first bike:
There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?'
Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel...
That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle. — Big K.R.I.T.
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. — Charles Bukowski
Short-term thinkers are a dime a dozen. Long-term thinkers are extremely rare. History books favor the long-term thinkers. Don't let short-term attention distract you from your long-term vision becoming a reality. Chase the big. — Patrick Bet-David
Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you. — Susan Wojcicki
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. — Kara Goucher
I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny. — Nicola Sturgeon
Extreme predictions are rarely right, but they're the ones that make you big money. — Howard Marks
In life, rewards are rarely linear. You have to work for months and sometimes years with little encouragement or reward to build something that can achieve lift-off. And then you arrive at the next plateau. Where you must work and build again. — Konstantin Kisin
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. — Michael Eisner
I Am Rare Quotes
I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions — Carrie Fisher
When I'm out and about, it's rare for me to be recognized. But for some reason, every now and then, someone will know who I am. — Akira Toriyama
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty. — Anthony Eden
I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films. — Maya Deren
I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples. — Lauren Collins
I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone. — Diane Von Furstenberg
I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds. — Laurie Helgoe
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough. — Anais Nin
I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence. — Carrie Fisher
Rarity Quotes
Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare, fortunately. — Bernard Arnault
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. — Soren Kierkegaard
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. — Walter Bagehot
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. — Stephen Jay Gould
Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare. — Bernard Arnault
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. — Apuleius
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor. — Marcus Valerius Martial
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. — Mary Astell
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor. — Martial
Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age. — John Cotton
A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for lack of a kindred soul to understand my misery. Simply by looking in her eyes I find the beloved of my heart. But rare is such a soul who swims in ecstatic bliss on the high tide of heavenly love. — Trevor Hall
Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak. — Johnny Carson
It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. — Jonathan Ive
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east — James A. Michener
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there. — Elif Batuman
I think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion. — Gaspar Noe
I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best. — M. F. K. Fisher
It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you. — Hector Berlioz
It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore. — Lysa TerKeurst
The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart. — Eknath Easwaran
Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game. — Erin Morgenstern
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have been in love already, but I don’t think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn’t love you back. — Tom Kaulitz
Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.* — Marianne Williamson
Love is rarely flawless,” Carter pointed out. “Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect. — Richelle Mead
Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while true love, total acceptance, and complete security are rare in our frantic world, the biblical evidence that our desires in these areas will be fulfilled in Christ is abundant. — Josh Mcdowell
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that brings the gritty, rural past to vivid life. I could very nearly smell the moonshine (the moonshiners too!). Pass a few hours with Mary Bet Hartsoe and family. You won't regret it. — T. R. Pearson
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. — Emma Goldman
Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world. — Iris Murdoch
But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect. — Patrick Rothfuss
Love is never convenient-and rarely painless — Richard Paul Evans
Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing. — Deb Caletti
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely. — Leon Krier
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may. — Jon Stewart
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. — Friedrich Schiller
The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS - WE ARE. REALLY. WITHOUT the silver shoes and lepord print sheet. WE ARE ENOUGH WITHOUT all the things we buy to make us much more than we are or need to be we are simple and complex and rare as is. — Sabrina Ward Harrison
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. — Anthony Trollope
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