2007-02-15 08:07:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
This comes from the childrens book
"The velveteen rabbit" (by Margery Williams)
Two toys are talking in the nursery about love.
A little more than a quote but a wonderful insight into what love is.
"What is real", asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made",said the skin horse "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a really long, long time, not just to play with but REALLY loves you, then you become real."
"does it hurt ?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the skin horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?'
"It doesn't happen all at once",said the skin horse,: "you become.It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen to people who break easily or have sharp edges, or who have to be
carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose
in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then wished he had not said it, for he thought the skin horse might be sensitive.
But the skin horse only smiled.
"The boy's uncle made me real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are real you can't become unreal
again. It lasts for always."
2007-02-15 13:38:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first one comes from one of my favorite books:
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
Another?
“Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.”
A longer one perhaps?
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love"
And last (though I don't know how much it really has to do with love).
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicyce."
2007-02-15 12:01:20 · answer #2 · answered by Matia 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That’s why I’ve come up with a theory.I thought about it and thought about it until it finally made sense. I found an answer to the question of why people can love and hate so easily. There simply is no such thing as love. What we have is ‘habitual infatuation’, as I like to call it. We find someone we like, we stay with them for a while, we decide they’re compatible with us, we stay with them for a while longer, then we get married. Why? Because we’ve become comfortable. We know this person, and they know us. Change is scary, and familiarity is a soothing feeling. We mistake that familiarity, mixed with our infatuation and lust, for what we’ve come to refer to as ‘love’.
2007-02-15 08:22:28 · answer #3 · answered by Heather 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a few:
"It's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all."
"You never lose by loving, but you always lose by holding back."
2007-02-15 08:15:17 · answer #4 · answered by Tigger_Grrrl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i gots a few
"Love is like a rose in winter, only the strong survive"
"Find a guy that adores you and not one that you adore!!"
2007-02-15 09:59:34 · answer #5 · answered by Lolly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come backto you, you were probably a darn good roll in the hay." *SMILE*
Cheers!
2007-02-15 08:20:07 · answer #6 · answered by krodgibami 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
" I love you more today than I did yesterday, and less today than I will tomorrow".
2007-02-15 10:32:43 · answer #7 · answered by Alfie333 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
2007-02-15 08:16:28 · answer #8 · answered by Ashley 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋