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17 January 2006

AskMeCha: What's that squishy romantic quote.... I'm trying to locate a quote about llloooovvvve. If I remember rightly, it comes from some sort of 70s source, like Leo Buscaglia or Jonathan Livingston Seagull or something like that. At least, I definiitely remember it written in groovy script on posters of sunsets.

The idea behind the quote is this: love is not standing face-to-face staring into each other's eyes, it's standing side by side and hand in hand, facing the world.

I'm hoping the groove brain will kick in here and help me find out how it's actually phrased. Thanks.

post by: Miko at: 09:34 | 16 comments

Is it

Love is not two people looking into each other's eyes, but two people looking ahead in the same direction.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery (author of The Little Prince)

I've also seen this quote attributed to the Kaballah ;)

posted by iconomy 17 January | 10:31

I love that quote. Here's another, which I don't think is what you're looking for, but nice all the same:

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

posted by amro 17 January | 10:35

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction”

Saint-Exupery

At least that's the version we had on our wedding programs.

posted by gaspode 17 January | 10:40

Ooh, that's very close to my most powerful dream of my "soulmate" that I had twenty years ago. In it, I was about to (probably) sacrifice my life in a righteous cause with other people's lives at stake, when my partner showed up beside me. I thanked her for "being there for me" and she responded: "Although I love you very much, I'm not here because of you, I'm here because of them."

I woke up to a very vivid memory of that dream and with a certainty that that woman was the love of my life.

Of course, real life is not so romantic and melodramatic.

posted by kmellis 17 January | 10:41

Yeah, that's probably the actual quote, gaspode - I was quoting from memory. Obviously my memory is lousy.

kmellis, what a great dream....how powerful. I hope you meet her some day.

posted by iconomy 17 January | 10:57

Girl Zone. Gross.

posted by orthogonality 17 January | 11:07

Ah how I love the smell of estrogen in the morning.

posted by iconomy 17 January | 11:22

*clinks tea cups with ico*

amro, that quote is probably my favorite description of the wonderful possibilities of love.

posted by Frisbee Girl 17 January | 11:29

That explains why I am often overcome with love while riding in the car with my husband. (Seriously.)

posted by jrossi4r 17 January | 12:31

This is my favorite quote along those lines...

posted by Specklet 17 January | 13:04

Specklet!!!!!!!! How the hell are you?

posted by jrossi4r 17 January | 13:36

I'm good, baby. Headed back to Portland today (was in Florida with family), but don't know how much I'll be able to visit with y'all since I no longer have access to the intarweb. More on this later.

Whuffles for all.

posted by Specklet 17 January | 14:22

Bonus Points: I have never said the name "Saint-Exupery" aloud. Can anyone tell me how to pronounce it so that I don't sound illiterate?

posted by Miko 17 January | 14:52

You can hear it said here.

posted by amro 17 January | 15:21

Specklet: and the Kahlil Gibran poem was read at our wedding.

Sensing a theme?

posted by gaspode 17 January | 16:26

y'all are the best. Thanks.

posted by Miko 17 January | 21:03

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