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

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

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.

— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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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 inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.

— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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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've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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

— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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People are never perfect, but love can be.

— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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

— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

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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 peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

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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.

— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

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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.

— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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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.

— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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

— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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