Positive Daily Love Affirmations

The Nature of Love and the Scorpion Sting

There was this man who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water. He decided to save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung him.

 

The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the scorpion stung him again.

 

A man nearby told him to stop saving the scorpion that kept stinging him.

 

But the first man said: "It is the nature of the scorpion to sting. It is my nature to love. Why should I give up my nature to love just because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting?"

 

Don't give up loving. Don't give up your goodness. Even if people around you sting. (Unknown)
 

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. (Frank Howard Clark)

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. (Bil Keane)

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. (Ingrid Bergman)

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. (Rupert Brooke)

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. (Thomas Carlyle)

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. (Boethius)

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. (George Jean Nathan)

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. (Henri B. Stendhal)

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. (Honore de Balzac)

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. (Plato)

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. (Rita Rudner)

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. (Lao Tzu)

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? (Richard Bach)

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. (Judy Garland)

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein


I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. (Erich Fromm)

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)