Stephen Dobyns Quotes

In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?" "Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love.

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

I love you because you’re the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.

Hate comes from Intimidation. Love comes from Appreciation.

You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.

Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)

There's nothing you can tell me that will change how I feel about you. Nothing. Because that isn't you. It's never been you. You're the woman I've come to know. The woman I love.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

He made me love him without looking at me.

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.