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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
-Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
-Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
-Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
-Merle Shain
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
-Unknown