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Friday, February 11, 2011
On the Subject of Love:
"We use this expression very carelessly. 'I love you.' What does this mean? It seems to me I discovered what 'I love you' really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you.
"LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything. What you receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and you cannot help giving. If you are very lucky, you may be loved back. That is delicious but it does not necessarily happen.
"It really implies total devotion. And total is all-encompassing -- the good of you, the bad of you."
~Katharine Hepburn, American actress (1907 - 2003) ME Stories of My Life, 1991, Alfred Knopf.
"We use this expression very carelessly. 'I love you.' What does this mean? It seems to me I discovered what 'I love you' really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you.
"LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything. What you receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and you cannot help giving. If you are very lucky, you may be loved back. That is delicious but it does not necessarily happen.
"It really implies total devotion. And total is all-encompassing -- the good of you, the bad of you."
~Katharine Hepburn, American actress (1907 - 2003) ME Stories of My Life, 1991, Alfred Knopf.
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