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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“Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet – thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing – consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.” -Lance Secretan
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“Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.” -Ellen Key
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf
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“All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.” -A. Whitney Brown
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“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.” -Paulo Coelho
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“We do not judge the people we love.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.” -Natalie Goldberg
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“Grief is the price we pay for love.” -Queen Elizabeth II
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“I love blackjack. But I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi circle.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.” -Charles L. Allen
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“But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.” -Jose Marti
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“Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.” -Meir Kahane
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“You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.” -Kirsten Dunst
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“I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.” -Elizabeth I
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“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.” -Og Mandino
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“Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.” -Voltaire
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“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“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.” -Emma Goldman
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“Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.” -Albert Ellis
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“And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.” -Peter Tosh
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“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.” -Marilyn French
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“It’s good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.” -Gary Busey
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“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.” -William Ellery Channing
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“I always like to win. But I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. It’s hard. I love her too much. That’s what counts.” -Venus Williams
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“Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!” -Sitting Bull
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“A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it, A song’s not a song ’til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!” -Oscar Hammerstein II
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“Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.” -Doug Coupland
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“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.” -Huey Newton
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“All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.” -John Gray
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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?” -Anais Nin
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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” -Bertrand Russell
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“What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then…
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“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” -James Herriot
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“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.” -Frank Zappa
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“Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.” -George S. Patton
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“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters.” -Eden Ahbez
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“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.” -Mary Manin Morrissey
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“Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.” -Alphonsus Liguori
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“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.” -Thomas Merton
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“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.” -Plato
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“I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that’s where I thrive.” -Will Smith
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“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.” -Walt Disney
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“The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.” -Mark Hopkins
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“There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you’ll stand firm if you stand on His love.” -Charles Stanley
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“It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful. It’s artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.” -Donald Trump
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“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” -Garrison Keillor
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“I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.” -Billy Idol
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“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That’s the truth. And on that note, I’ll say goodnight. God love you.” -Bobby Darin
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“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.” -Edward Abbey
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“Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?” -Jon Bon Jovi
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“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” -Billy Graham
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“For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“We’re not raising children with the love that we need to.” -Bill Cosby
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“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.” -Deepak Chopra
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“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” -Erich Segal
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“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” -George Washington Carver
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“I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.” -Bob Dylan
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“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“It is impossible to love and to be wise.” -Francis Bacon
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“My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.” -Farrah Fawcett
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“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.” -Cathy Guisewite
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“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.” -Albert Camus
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“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it Whenever you’re right, shut up.” -Ogden Nash
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“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.” -Margaret Atwood
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“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” -Jane Austen
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“Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.” -Nelson Mandela
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“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” -Brad Henry
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“In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.” -Judy Garland
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“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.” -A. J. McLean
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“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“It’s funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” -Wayne Dyer
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“Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“It’s not an act. I love it. It’s totally original. People go, ‘What’s going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don’t know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.” -Charlie Sheen
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“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” -Francis of Assisi
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“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.” -Tad Williams
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“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.” -Willa Cather
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“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.” -Alfred A. Montapert
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“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.” -Sai Baba
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“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” -Lily Tomlin
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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” -Alan Watts
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“Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.” -Lucinda Franks
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“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” -Andy Warhol
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“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” -Ben Okri
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“I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children.” -Ednita Nazario
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“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!” -Henry David Thoreau
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“You gotta love livin’, baby, ’cause dyin’ is a pain in the ass.” -Frank Sinatra
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“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen……
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“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” -William Congreve
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“My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping…
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“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” -Johnny Depp
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“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.” -Robert Frost
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“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.” -Haniel Long
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“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” -Anne Frank
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“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.” -Lord Byron
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“If you’re married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife ‘I love her’ the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that’s how I feel about my relationship…
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” -Satchel Paige
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“A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” -Saint Basil
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“The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.” -Basil Hume
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“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.” -Lao Tzu
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“No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?” -Lee Iacocca
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“A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.” -Frank Morgan
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“For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” -John Burroughs
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“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all.” -Washington Irving
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“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.” -Khalil Gibran
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“I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.” -John Lennon
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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” -Benjamin Britten
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“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” -Arthur Rubinstein
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“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” -Aristotle
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“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.” -Woody Allen
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“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” -Ayn Rand
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“Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?” -Tony Robbins
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“When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.” -Joseph Campbell
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“The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don’t need any fingers.” -Larry Flynt
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“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” -Joseph Addison
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“Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.” -Michael Jordan
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“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.” -Henny Youngman
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” -Robert Fulghum
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“Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.” -Henry Rollins
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“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” -Josh Billings
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“I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.” -Muhammad Ali
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“They do not love that do not show their love.” -William Shakespeare
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“I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“Respect is what we owe love, what we give.” -Philip James Bailey
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“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” -George Chakiris
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“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Presents don’t really mean much to me. I don’t want to sound mawkish, but – it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.” -Gabriel Byrne
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“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” -William Arthur Ward
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“We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.” -Arthur Conan Doyle
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“One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.” -Judith Viorst
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“If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.” -Will Rogers
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“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“True love doesn’t happen right away it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.” -Ricardo Montalban
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“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” -C. S. Lewis
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“The best smell in the world is that man that you love.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.” -Maya Angelou
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” -Thomas Paine
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“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?” -Fulton J. Sheen
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“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” -Mother Teresa
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“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.” -Keanu Reeves
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“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.” -Mark Twain
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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” -Douglas Adams
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“It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first…
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“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” -Dale Evans
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“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” -Brian Tracy
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with…
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“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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