We Waste Time Looking For The Perfect Lover, Instead Of Creating The Perfect Love

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Dreamy quotes from Tom Robbins that never fail to inspire both your heart and your mind.

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriat…”

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“When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we…”

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“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

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“People are never perfect, but love can be.”

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“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”

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“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from pecul…”

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“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”

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“Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.”

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“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”

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“There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”

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