David James Duncan Quotes

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.

'Must Feed and Water' is a love story told from the point of view of 'Love' as a character.

I think if you're in love, you're willing to do anything that comes with it.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me. “Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.