love
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘love’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” -Nikola Tesla
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“At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.” -Hillary Clinton
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“I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.” -Zora Neale Hurston
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“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.” -Milan Kundera
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“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.” -Hans Urs von Balthasar
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“I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.” -George Eliot
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“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.” -Kenny Loggins
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“If you love something let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.” -Douglas Horton
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“I love my children beyond all reason. They’re my joy, even when they’re wild with kid energy.” -Christopher Meloni
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“Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.” -Kent Nerburn
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“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.” -Greg Anderson
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“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.” -Pierre Beaumarchais
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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” -E. M. Forster
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“Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.” -Zsa Zsa Gabor
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“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.” -Honore de Balzac
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“A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.” -Bob Hope
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“I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.” -Angelina Jolie
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“When we ask for love, we don’t ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love.” -Mortimer Adler
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“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” -Julia Child
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“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.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” -John Ruskin
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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.” -Pope John Paul II
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“He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.” -Jose Rizal
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“When people are lame, they love to blame.” -Robert Kiyosaki
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“When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?” -Marilyn Manson
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“If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.” -Yakov Smirnoff
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“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Love is the river of life in the world.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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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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“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to…
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“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that.” -John Keats
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“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.” -Tyler Perry
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“When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex. It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.” -Janis Joplin
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“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.” -Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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“A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You’re always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there’s the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.” -Chuck D.
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” -Billie Holiday
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“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.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life. What I’ve learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it’s a strength.” -Elisabeth Shue
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“If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn’t take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.” -Eva Gabor
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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” -Emily Dickinson
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“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.” -Kris Kristofferson
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“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.” -Anthony Hopkins
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“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.” -Erich Fromm
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“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.” -Aldous Huxley
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“I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I’m a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.” -Tori Amos
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“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” -Aldo Leopold
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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” -Julius Caesar
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“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.” -Robert Anton Wilson
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“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” -Paul Sweeney
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“The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” -Henry Miller
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“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.” -Paul Walker
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“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.” -Ray Bradbury
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“Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.” -Dan Millman
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“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” -Pietro Aretino
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“If you’re lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.” -Rip Torn
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“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.” -Torquato Tasso
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“If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.” -Francis Quarles
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“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.” -Alexander Pope
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“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” -Mary Oliver
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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.” -Andrew Jackson
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“Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” -Carl Jung
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“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!” -Marie de France
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“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.” -Victor Hugo
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“This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We’ve got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We’re going to change that in November.” -Mitt Romney
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“True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.” -Julia Roberts
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“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.” -H. L. Mencken
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“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward……
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“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.” -Clint Eastwood
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“A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.” -Pearl Bailey
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“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.” -Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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“Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.” -Ninon de L’Enclos
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“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald
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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” -Sophia Loren
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“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.” -George McGovern
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“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” -Paul McCartney
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“Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.” -Octavio Paz
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“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.” -Maggie Gallagher
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“First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.” -Maximilian Schell
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“So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.” -Robert Browning
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“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” -Sydney J. Harris
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“We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.” -Alanis Morissette
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“If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there’s got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute…
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“We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.” -Helen Hayes
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“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.” -Natalie Portman
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“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.” -Iris Murdoch
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“A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.” -Dogen
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“Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.” -Adam Sandler
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“When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.” -Edwin Booth
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“If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.” -Stendhal
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“I love my family and I miss them very much but I’m a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I’ve done, but it was right for me.” -LaToya Jackson
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“You don’t have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.” -Edward Koch
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“If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.” -Ann Landers
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“Above our life we love a steadfast friend.” -Christopher Marlowe
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“Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.” -Sigmund Freud
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“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.” -e. e. cummings
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“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” -Marianne Williamson
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“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” -George Sand
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“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time.” -Freddy Fender
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“What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!” -Jamie Oliver
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“I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.” -Esai Morales
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“I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn’t necessarily believe in.” -Oliver Reed
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“I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late start without me.” -Tallulah Bankhead
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“It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you’re not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.” -Emma Watson
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“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.” -Jack Kingston
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“There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” -W. H. Auden
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“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.” -Michael Jackson
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“I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.” -Jean Cocteau
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“If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one’s friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.” -Jasmine Guy
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“Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.” -LeBron James
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“I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.” -Sid Vicious
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“Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.” -Raymond Chandler
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“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.” -William Blake
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“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.” -Herman Melville
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“When you start falling for somebody and you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.” -Orlando Bloom
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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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“Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“A lot of women don’t know how to love because there’s deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.” -Lil Wayne
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“Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” -James A. Baldwin
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“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” -Rita Mae Brown
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“I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!” -Coco Chanel
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“I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we’ve been talking, I think that’s really fun.” -Zac Efron
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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Sex is a part of love. You shouldn’t go around doing it unless you are in love.” -Bettie Page
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“In art as in love, instinct is enough.” -Anatole France
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“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.” -Glenn Hughes
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“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.” -Amelia Earhart
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“What I am is how I came out. No one’s perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.” -Kelly Brook
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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” -Rumi
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“Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.” -Louis Gerstner
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“Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.” -Helen Rowland
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“Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.” -Miley Cyrus
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“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.” -Anna Louise Strong
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“As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn’t work for me. I’d just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody…
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“Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.” -Margaret Mead
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“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.” -Jesus Christ
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“How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.” -Lucille Ball
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“Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.” -Joyce Brothers
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” -Elie Wiesel
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“I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.” -Edgar Winter
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“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.” -Lawrence Durrell
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“Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.” -Fran Lebowitz
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