Kim Harrison Quotes

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

I believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I realize that I'm one of those guys that if I'm not with you, you hate me. But when I'm with you, you understand who I am and what I'm about and love me.

Love happens when people forgive.

The only solution is love.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.