Quotes on love
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
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James Baldwin Quotes
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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Barbara Pym Quotes
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
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Margaret Atwood Quotes
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
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Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
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George Santayana Quotes
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
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Henri Amiel Quotes
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.
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Abraham Crowley Quotes
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.
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Sir Thomas More Quotes
And, oh, how blessed is it thus to meet! To feel that vanished years have not estranged us.
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Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali Quotes
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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Randy K. Milholland Quotes
I don't think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
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John Donne Quotes
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Platonic love is love from the neck up.
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Thyra Smater Winsolow Quotes
Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
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Lynda Barry Quotes
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
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Leo Buscaglia Quotes
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
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Maxim Gorky Quotes
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.
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Woody Allen Quotes
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
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Euripides Quotes
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
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Maurice Chevalier Quotes
There is no wisdom without love.
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That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Robert Browning Quotes
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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Charles Dickens Quotes
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
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Edward Thomas Quotes
Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you.
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Author Unknown Quotes
He that is not jealous is not in love.
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St. Augustine Quotes
Love breaks hate.
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Adabella Radici Quotes
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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Ice T Quotes
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.
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Unknown Author Quotes
In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.
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Emma Racine deFleur Quotes
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
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Alexandra Penney Quotes
Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still I would love you.
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The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Love is not consolation. It is light.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Hate punishes love.
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Abbe Yeux-verdi Quotes
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
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Lisa Simpson Quotes
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
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Margaret Anderson Quotes
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
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Author Unknown Quotes
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
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Aerosmith Quotes
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
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Charles Morgan Quotes
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.
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V.F. Calverton Quotes
Love is blind; hate is deaf.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest. Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.
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William S. Gilbert Quotes
Love floods us with hope.
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Jareb Teague Quotes
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.
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Hannah Moore Quotes
Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
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Walt Whitman Quotes
The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.
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John Gay Quotes
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
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Frank A. Clark Quotes
I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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J. D. Salinger Quotes
Love is not singular except in syllable.
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Marvin Taylor Quotes
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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Eric Fromm Quotes
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
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Bill Watterson Quotes
When love is not madness, it is not love.
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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Robert Heinlein Quotes
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
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Jareb Teague Quotes
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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Jean Anouilh Quotes
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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Peter Ustinov Quotes
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
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Paul Valéry Quotes
Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.
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Arabic Proverb Quotes
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
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Judith Viorst Quotes
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
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Emma Goldman Quotes
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Love is metaphysical gravity.
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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Sex relieves tension - love causes it.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Hate is misguided love.
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Author Unknown Quotes
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
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So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
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John Milton Quotes
Ah me! why may not love and life be one?
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Henry Timrod Quotes
Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.
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Francesca M. Cancian Quotes
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
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Ben Hecht Quotes
Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls.
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Amethyst Snow-Rivers Quotes
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
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Laurence Marks Quotes
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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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
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Pearl Bailey Quotes
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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George Jean Nathan Quotes
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
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Ovid Quotes
True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
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Armistead Maupin Quotes
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.
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Proverb Quotes
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
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Bruce Lee Quotes
Love me and the world is mine.
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David Reed Quotes
Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.
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Christopher Paul Rubero Quotes
Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.
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Aimee Martin Quotes
May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
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Hadewijch of Antwerp Quotes
Loving is never a waste of time.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Lao Tzu Quotes
People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
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Unknown Author Quotes
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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Unknown Author Quotes
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
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John Bulwer Quotes
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
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Paul Eldridge Quotes
I mean, listen, Mom and Dad love children in the Muslim world just like we do in America, and they've got to understand that - that there are some common beliefs that we share that will make - and the Peace Corps is a good way to spread that message.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
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Marc Chagall Quotes
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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Nicholas de Chamfort Quotes
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
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George Herbert Quotes
Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The love game is never called off on account of darkness.
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Tom Masson Quotes
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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Charlie Brown Quotes
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
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Thomas Moore Quotes
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
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David Byrne Quotes
There's nothing more freeing than the shackles of love.
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Emma Racine deFleur Quotes
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
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Henry Van Dyke Quotes
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
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Nikki Giovanni Quotes
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.
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Author Unknown Quotes
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.
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Charles du Bos Quotes
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
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Hoosier Farmer Quotes
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
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Swedish Proverb Quotes
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
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Margaret Atwood Quotes
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
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Emma Goldman Quotes
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
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Charlotte Gray Quotes
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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Mother Teresa Quotes
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
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Marguerite de Valois Quotes
When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match.
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Jeff Arch Quotes
Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Honore de Balzac Quotes
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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Boethius Quotes
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Emily Brontë Quotes
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
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Eva Gabor Quotes
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
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Germaine Greer Quotes
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
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John Keats Quotes
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.
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Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
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Francis Quarles Quotes
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.
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Paul-Jean Toulet Quotes
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
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Author Unknown Quotes
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
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Erich Segal Quotes
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
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Joyce Stranger Quotes
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows. Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last. To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die. You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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Rob Cella Quotes
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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Unknown Author Quotes
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The building of friendship, family, community and love is more complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
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Holly Near Quotes
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'
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J. D. Salinger Quotes
A loving heart heals hate.
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Jareb Teague Quotes
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
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Ken Keyes Quotes
Love multiplies past hate.
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