Love Quotes

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." ~~ St. Augustine
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"When I met you I liked you, When I liked you I kissed you, When I kissed you I loved you, When I loved you I lost you." ~~ Author unknown
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"I love you not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." ~~ Roy Croft
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"Immature love says 'I love you because I need you' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you!'" ~~ unknown
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"Radix malorum est cupiditas" 'the love of money is the root of all evil'
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"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." ~~ Barbara DeAngelis
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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." ~~ Ingrid Bergman
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." ~~ Alexander Smith
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"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." ~~ William M. Thackeray
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"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with…" ~~ unknown
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"Within you I lose myself Without you I find myself Wanting to be lost again." ~~ Unknown
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"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." ~~ unknown
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"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." ~~ William Osler
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"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." ~~ Nietzsche
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"A mighty pain to love it is, and tis' a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain." ~~ Abraham Crowley
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"So much of what we know of love we learn at home." ~~ unknown
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"You don't marry someone you can live with- you marry the person who you cannot live without." ~~ unknown
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"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes." ~~ unknown
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"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." ~~ John Donne
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"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." ~~ Benjamin Franklin
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"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." ~~ Henry Ward Beecher
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"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love- and to put its trust in life." ~~ Joseph Conrad
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"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight." ~~ Christopher Marlowe
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"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are." ~~ Houssaye
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"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." ~~ La Bruyere
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"To love another person is to see the face of God." ~~ Les Miserables
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"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe." ~~ La Rochefoucauld
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"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." ~~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship -never." ~~ Charles Caleb Colton
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"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time." ~~ Lawrence Durrell
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"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." ~~ La Rochefoucauld
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"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." ~~ Stendhal
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"Blushing is the color of virtue." ~~ Diogenes
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"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other." ~~ Leo F. Buscaglia
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"Love cures people- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." ~~ Dr. Karl Menninger
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"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting." ~~ Mother Theresa
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"Don't forget to love yourself." ~~ Soren Kierkegaard
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"Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!" ~~ Unknown
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"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away." ~~ Alicia Barnhart
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"You call it madness, but I call it love." ~~ Don Byas
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"Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived." ~~ Unknown
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"He who loves 50 people had 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes." ~~ Buddha
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"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever." ~~ Unknown
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"Love is not blind- It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less." ~~ Will Moss
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"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest." ~~ Unknown
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"The eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!" ~~ Margaret Atwood
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"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart." ~~ Unknown
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"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." ~~ Shakespeare
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"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance even celebration of another's personhood." ~~ Karen Casey
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." ~~ Mother Theresa
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"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." ~~ Benjamin Franklin
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"Love which is shared is like a present that gets bigger." ~~ unknown
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"Love is a terrible thing to waste, yet someone does everyday." ~~ unknown
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"Love is a room of your heart where two souls meet and linger forever." ~~ unknown
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"Love is a sickness only acquired by those who are willing to get hurt." ~~ unknown
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"To love somebody is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything." ~~ unknown
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"Love is willing, yet sometimes wills not." ~~ unknown
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"A kiss is a lure in which both men and women use to create havoc." ~~ unknown
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"If you love someone, they are part of you and that is why you must never give up… for there are always good times and bad; the bad times make the good times better." ~~ unknown
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"When we do away with all that is bad, it gives us no reason to love, for if there is nothing you hate, you have nothing to be happy about." ~~ unknown
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"Love is a reminder how much pain hurts." ~~ unknown
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"Love is honest and when it is not it will wreck a life… but yet honesty can hurt just as much." ~~ unknown
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"I live for the love…yet the love lives for a friend. Someone to hold and be there…love needs a soul." ~~ unknown
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"Love is like a cake…sometimes it is good and then sometimes no one cares how good it is until there is no more left." ~~ unknown
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"You can't hate until you have loved." ~~ unknown
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"But in love, silence is only a torture that punishes you with no hesitation, your hesitation." ~~ unknown
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"It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel" ~~ unknown
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"Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship - and find out you still care for that person." ~~ unknown
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"Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back; don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours." ~~ unknown
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"There are things you love to hear but you would never hear it from the person from whom you would like to hear it, but don't be deaf to hear it from the person who says it with his heart." ~~ unknown
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"Never say goodbye when you still want to try, never give up when you still feel you can take it, never say you don't love that person anymore when you can't let go." ~~ unknown
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"Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those who still love even though they've been hurt before." ~~ unknown
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"It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone." ~~ unknown
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"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them with our own image - otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." ~~ unknown
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"Love starts with a smile, develops with a kiss and ends with a tear." ~~ unknown
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"It's better to love and be heart broken, than to never love at all." ~~ unknown
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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must felt with the heart." ~~ Helen Keller
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"A heart that loves is always young." ~~ unknown
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"Love is perfect, even when we are not." ~~ unknown
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"Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you." ~~ unknown
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"Love doesn't cause pain, people do." ~~ unknown
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"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." ~~ Mother Theresa
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"Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life." ~~ unknown
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"Love is what the heart needs."
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"Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine." ~~ unknown
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old." ~~ John Ciardi
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"There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies." ~~ François de La Rochefoucauld
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"All mankind loves a lover." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." ~~ Voltaire
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"If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving." ~~ Anonymous ***************************************************
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." ~~ John Donne
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"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another." ~~ Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." ~~ Mahatma Gandhi
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." ~~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late." ~~ Douglas Jerrold
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"I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation." ~~ Samuel Osgood
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"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." ~~ Benjamin Franklin
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"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it." ~~ George Bernard Shaw
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"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." ~~ Henry Ward Beecher
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." ~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." ~~ Thornton Wilder
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"Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another." ~~ H. L. Mencken
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"Love gives itself; it is not bought." ~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." ~~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"Never have partners." ~~ Hughes
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"If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain." ~~ Unknown
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"Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love." ~~ Albert Einstein
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"The one who loves least controls the relationship." ~~ Anonymous
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"The most dangerous food is a wedding cake." ~~ Proverb
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"The woman cries before he wedding, the man after." ~~ Proverb
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"Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's." ~~ La Bruyere
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"You say that love is nonsense.... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." ~~ Henry Adams
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"Love is a great beautifier." ~~ Louisa May Alcott
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." ~~ WH Auden
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"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it." ~~ Bible Song of Solomon 8:7
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"If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile... her look… her way Of speaking gently... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so." ~~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Who so loves Believes the impossible." ~~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out." ~~ Elizabeth Bowen
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it." ~~ Miguel de Cervantes
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"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." ~~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never." ~~ Charles Caleb Colton
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"Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel." ~~ Pierre Corneille
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"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny." ~~ Quentin Crisp
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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding." ~~ Bette Davis
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"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime." ~~ Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
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"Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality." ~~ Emily Dickinson
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"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine." ~~ Isak Dinesen
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"Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other." ~~ Louise Erdrich
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"Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them." ~~ Euripides
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"Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass." ~~ French proverb
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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self." ~~ Erich Fromm
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"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love." ~~ Erich Fromm
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"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence." ~~ Goncourt
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"The love we give away is the only love we keep." ~~ Elbert Hubbard
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"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?" ~~ B
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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." ~~ Erica Jong
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"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." ~~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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"To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission." ~~ Charles A. Lindbergh
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"This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life." ~~ Thomas Mann
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"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities." ~~ Jacques Maritain
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"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." ~~ W. Somerset Maugham
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"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames." ~~ Thomas Moore
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"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
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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper." ~~ PJ O'Rourke
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"Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power." ~~ Ovid
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"We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it." ~~ Blaise Pascal
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"Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." ~~ Alexander Pope
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"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense." ~~ Helen Rowland
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"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives." ~~ Bertrand Russell
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"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy." ~~ Bertrand Russell
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"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." ~~ Antoine de Saint Éxupéry
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"Love is a spirit of all compact of fire." ~~ William Shakespeare
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet." ~~ William Shakespeare
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"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." ~~ William Shakespeare
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"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better." ~~ William Shakespeare
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"The course of true love never did run smooth." ~~ William Shakespeare
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"They do not love that do not show their love." ~~ William Shakespeare
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us." ~~ Madame De Staël
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." ~~ Lord Tennyson
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"There is no remedy for love but to love more." ~~ Henry David Thoreau
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"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love." ~~ Leo Tolstoy
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"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same." ~~ Voltaire
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"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." ~~ Andy Warhol
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"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." ~~ Oscar Wilde
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"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here." ~~ Marianne Williamson
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"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears." ~~ Woodrow Wyatt
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