Kim Harrison Quotes

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

Love is the opposite of [lust]: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich.

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.

Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

If [my son] had any pain in feeling that he couldn't express to me, that would hurt.

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.

When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them.

When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.

Love is a gift. You give love and that's where the joy is.

I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.