Love Quotes
Teach only love for that is what you are.Love
A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity Eastern Philosophy
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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Ackerman, Diane
1948 American Poet Writer Naturalist
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
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Adler, Alfred
1870-1937 Austrian Psychiatrist
Love is a great beautifier.
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Alcott, Louisa May
1832-1888 American Author
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
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Algren, Nelson
1909-1981 American Author
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
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Allen, Woody
1935 American Director Screenwriter Actor Comedian
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
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Allen, Woody
1935 American Director Screenwriter Actor Comedian
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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Amiel, Henri Frederic
1821-1881 Swiss Philosopher Poet Critic
In real love you want the other person s good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
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Anderson, Margaret
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
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Angelis, Barbara De
American Expert on Relationship and Love Author
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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Angelis, Barbara De
American Expert on Relationship and Love Author
Love s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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Angelis, Barbara De
American Expert on Relationship and Love Author
There is love of course. And then there s life, its enemy.
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Anouilh, Jean
1910-1987 French Playwright
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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Aquinas, St. Thomas
1225-1274 Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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Aragon, Louis
1897-1982 French Poet
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.
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Ardele, Jean Anouilh
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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Ardele, Jean Anouilh
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
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Arendt, Hannah
1906-1975 German-born American Political Philosopher
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
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Ashley, Elizabeth
American Actress
Love is the victim s response to the rapist.
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Atkinson, Ti-Grace
1938 American Feminist Writer
We must love one another or die.
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Auden, W. H.
1907-1973 Anglo-American Poet
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.
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Auden, W. H.
1907-1973 Anglo-American Poet
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
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Auden, W. H.
1907-1973 Anglo-American Poet
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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Augustine, St.
354-430 Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo Theologian
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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Augustine, St.
354-430 Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo Theologian
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Augustine, St.
354-430 Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo Theologian
Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Augustine, St.
354-430 Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo Theologian
Love, and do what you like.
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Augustine, St.
354-430 Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo Theologian
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
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Auvil, Myrtle
Real love stories never have endings.
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Bach, Richard
1936 American Author
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
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Bailey, Pearl
1918-1990 American Vocalist Movie and Stage Actress
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
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Bailey, Pearl
1918-1990 American Vocalist Movie and Stage Actress
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Balzac, Honore De
1799-1850 French Novelist
Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.
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Bandler, Richard
American Therapist Co-founder of NLP
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
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Barnes, Julian
1946 British Lexicographer Critic Editor
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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Barr, Amelia E.
1831-1919 Anglo-American Novelist
If you have it [Love], you don t need to have anything else, and if you don t have it, it doesn t matter much what else you have.
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Barrie, Sir James M.
1860-1937 British Playwright
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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Barry, Lynda
American Cartoonist Painter Essayist
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Barthes, Roland
1915-1980 French Semiologist
Naturally, love s the most distant possibility.
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Bataille, Georges
1897-1962 French Novelist Critic
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they re still alive.
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Battista, Orlando A.
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
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Baudelaire, Charles
1821-1867 French Poet
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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Baudrillard, Jean
French Postmodern Philosopher Writer
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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Baudrillard, Jean
French Postmodern Philosopher Writer
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
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Beaumarchais, Pierre De
1732-1799 French Dramatist
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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Becker, Ernest
1924-1974 American Psychologist Cultural Anthropologist
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
Love is the river of life in the world.
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Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
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Behn, Aphra
1640-1689 British Playwright Poet
Honor the ocean of love.
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Benneville, George De
1703-1793 French Radical Christian
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
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Bernard, St.
1090-1153 French Theologian and Reformer
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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Bernard, St.
1090-1153 French Theologian and Reformer
We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Love is the fulfilling of the Law.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
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Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell s despair.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
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Blanton, Smiley
1882 American Author
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
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Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of
1789-1849 Irish Writer and Socialite
The only victory over love is flight.
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Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Borges, Jorge Luis
1899-1986 Argentinean Author
A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
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Bourget, Paul
1852-1935 French Novelist
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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Bowen, Elizabeth
1899-1973 Anglo-Irish Novelist
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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Breton, Andre
1989-1966 French Surrealist
When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
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Bridges, Robert
1844-1930 British Poet
Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.
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Brooke, Rupert
1887-1915 British Poet
All the little emptiness of love!
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Brooke, Rupert
1887-1915 British Poet
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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Brookner, Anita
1938 British Novelist Art Historian
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
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Brothers, Dr. Joyce
1927 American Psychologist Television and Radio Personality
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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Brown, Charlie
Peanuts Comic Strip Character
Love without attachment is light.
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Brown, Norman O.
1913 American Philosopher
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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Brown, Rita Mae
1944 American Writer
Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
1806-1861 British Poet
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
1806-1861 British Poet
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Browning, Robert
1812-1889 British Poet
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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Bruyere, Jean De La
1645-1696 French Classical Writer
To be among people one loves, that s sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
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Bruyere, Jean De La
1645-1696 French Classical Writer
We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
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Buber, Martin
1878-1965 Austrian-born Israeli Theologian Philosopher
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
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Buber, Martin
1878-1965 Austrian-born Israeli Theologian Philosopher
Love alone could waken love.
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Buck, Pearl S.
1892-1973 American Novelist
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
1803-1873 British Novelist Poet
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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Burton, Robert
1576-1640 British Clergyman Scholar
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
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Buscaglia, Leo
American Expert on Love Lecturer Author
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter s frost and chill, summer s warmth is in them still.
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Buscaglia, Leo
American Expert on Love Lecturer Author
Don t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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Buscaglia, Leo
American Expert on Love Lecturer Author
Don t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
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Buscaglia, Leo
American Expert on Love Lecturer Author
Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
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Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
Man s love is of man s life a part; it is a woman s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
Who loves, raves.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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Calvino, Italo
1923-1985 Cuban Writer Essayist Journalist
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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Camus, Albert
1913-1960 French Existential Writer
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Capote, Truman
1942 American Author
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
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Carmichael, Amy
1867- Irish Missionary
Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.
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Carroll, Pat
1927 American Actress Comedian
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Catullus
BC 87-54 Roman Lyric Poet
Love, Arthur, is a poodle s chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
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Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
1894-1961 French Author
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Cervantes, Miguel De
1547-1616 Spanish Novelist Dramatist Poet
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.
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Cervantes, Miguel De
1547-1616 Spanish Novelist Dramatist Poet
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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Chambless, David
True love is the parent of humility.
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Channing, William Ellery
1780-1842 American Unitarian Minister Author
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De
1881-1955 French Christian Mystic Author
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
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Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De
1881-1955 French Christian Mystic Author
Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De
1881-1955 French Christian Mystic Author
Love is blind.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
1340-1400 British Poet
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
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Chevalier, Maurice
1888-1972 French Singer Actor
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
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Child, Lydia M.
1802-1880 American Abolitionist Writer Editor
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George
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Childs, Williams
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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Cholmondeley, Mary
British Author
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.
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Ciardi, John
1916-1986 American Teacher Poet Writer
You can t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.
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Clark, Melanie
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
To love a thing means wanting it to live.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
If there s delight in love, Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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Congreve, William
1670-1729 British Dramatist
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
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Connolly, Cyril
1903-1974 British Critic
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
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Corneille, Pierre
1606-1684 French Dramatist
Love is a friendship set to music.
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Cossman, E. Joseph
American Businessman Author Lecturer
Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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Covey, Stephen R.
American Speaker Trainer Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
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Crawford, Joan
1904-1977 American Actress
Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.
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Crawshaw, Richard
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.
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Crisp, Quentin
1908 British Author
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
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Croft, Roy
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
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Crowley, Aleister
1875-1947 British Occultist
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
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Cummings, Fr. Jerome
The way to a woman s heart is through your wallet.
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Dane, Frank
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
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Davies, Robertson
1913 Canadian Novelist Journalist
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Davis, Bette
1908-1989 American Actress Producer
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
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Delp, Alexis
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
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Desai, Yogi
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
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Dewar, Thomas Robert
I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I m very happy to do that and I want to do that.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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Dickens, Charles
1812-1870 British Novelist
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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Dickinson, Emily
1830-1886 American Poet
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
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Dioum, Baba
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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Disney, Walt
1901-1966 American Artist Film Producer
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Donne, John
1572-1632 British Metaphysical Poet
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Donne, John
1572-1632 British Metaphysical Poet
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though Tis got by chance, Tis kept by art.
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Donne, John
1572-1632 British Metaphysical Poet
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
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Doren, Mark Van
1894-1972 American Poet Critic
Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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Dostoevski, Fyodor
1821-1881 Russian Novelist
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
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Drewar, Lord
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
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Drummond, Henry
1786-1860 British Banker Politician Religious Leader
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
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Drummond, Henry
1786-1860 British Banker Politician Religious Leader
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
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Drummond, Henry
1786-1860 British Banker Politician Religious Leader
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Dryden, John
1631-1700 British Poet Dramatist Critic
Love is love s reward.
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Dryden, John
1631-1700 British Poet Dramatist Critic
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Dryden, John
1631-1700 British Poet Dramatist Critic
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
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Du Coeur
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
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Duffy, Maureen
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
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Duncan, Isadora
1878-1927 American Dancer
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
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Duras, Marguerite
1914 French Author Filmmaker
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.
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Duras, Marguerite
1914 French Author Filmmaker
It s unthinkable not to love --you d have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you d have to be Philip Larkin.
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Durrell, Lawrence
1912-1990 British Author
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Durrell, Lawrence
1912-1990 British Author
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.
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Dworkin, Andrea
1946 American Feminist Critic
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
Love is a better teacher than duty.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
You can t blame gravity for falling in love.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
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Eliot, T. S.
1888-1965 American-born British Poet Critic
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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Elton, Ben
1959 British Author Performer
All mankind loves a lover.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
We don t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
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Eschenbach, Marie E.
We always come back to our first love.
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Etienne
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
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Euripides
BC 480-406 Greek Tragic Poet
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
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Euripides
BC 480-406 Greek Tragic Poet
People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.
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Federman, Irwin
You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that s the price of love.
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Ferry, Brian
I don t want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Fitzgerald, Zelda
1900-1948 American Writer
You couldn t get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
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Flaherty, Edward
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
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Forster, Edward M.
1879-1970 British Novelist Essayist
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
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Fox, Emmet
American Unity Minister Metaphysician
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
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Fox, Emmet
American Unity Minister Metaphysician
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
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Francis of Assisi, St.
1181-1226 Italian Preacher Founder of the Franciscan Orde
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can t even think straight.
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French, Marilyn
1929 American Author Critic
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
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Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939 Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
One is very crazy when in love.
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Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939 Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939 Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Love, while you are able to love.
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Frieligrath, A.
Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
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Fromm, Erich
1900-1980 American Psychologist
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
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Fromm, Erich
1900-1980 American Psychologist
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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Fromm, Erich
1900-1980 American Psychologist
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
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Fuller, Margaret
1810-1850 American Writer Lecturer
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
Where there is love there is life.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they ve won us.
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Gay, John
1688-1732 British Playwright Poet
The chemist who can extract from his heart s elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
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Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
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Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
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Ginsberg, Louis
We love because it s the only true adventure.
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Giovanni, Nikki
1943 American Poet
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
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Gogh, Vincent Van
1853-1890 Dutch Painter
The best way to know God is to love many things.
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Gogh, Vincent Van
1853-1890 Dutch Painter
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
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Gogh, Vincent Van
1853-1890 Dutch Painter
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.
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Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De
1822-1896 French Writers
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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Gordon, Rabbi J.
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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Gracian, Baltasar
1601-1658 Spanish Philosopher Writer
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.
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Graham, Billy
1918 American Evangelist
Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
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Greer, Germaine
1939 Australian Feminist Writer
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
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Groening, Matt
1954 American Writer Cartoonist Animator Producer Screenwriter
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
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Groening, Matt
1954 American Writer Cartoonist Animator Producer Screenwriter
Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Guin, Ursula K. Le
1929 American Author
Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted
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Guthrie, Arlo
American Artist
Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God s love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.</