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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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“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” -Theodore Hesburgh
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“I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.” -Claude Chabrol
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“Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” -George Burns
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“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” -Buddha
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“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” -Keith Sweat
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“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.” -Albert Einstein
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“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.” -Lawrence Welk
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“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” -Rita Rudner
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“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” -Zig Ziglar
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“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.” -Confucius
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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” -Dalai Lama
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“Don’t aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” -David Frost
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“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” -Charles Kuralt
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“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” -Charles M. Schulz
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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” -Denis Waitley
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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” -Bruce Lee
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“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.” -Marc Chagall
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“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.” -Robert Burton
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“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.” -Thornton Wilder
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“In love there are two things – bodies and words.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.” -Cyril Connolly
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“I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.” -Leslie Fiedler
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“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.” -Judith Viorst
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“Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?” -Igor Stravinsky
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“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.” -Boethius
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“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.” -Francois Rabelais
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“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.” -Jean de la Bruyere
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“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.” -Aphra Behn
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“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” -Christopher Marlowe
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“With our love, we could save the world.” -George Harrison
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“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” -Sinclair Lewis
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“True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” -Marc Chagall
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“You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.” -Werner Erhard
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“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.” -Arthur Rimbaud
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“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.” -Lawrence Durrell
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“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.” -Torquato Tasso
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“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.” -Alphonse de Lamartine
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“You don’t want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.” -Tammy Wynette
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“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.” -Theodor Adorno
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“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” -David Viscott
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“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.” -Eric Hoffer
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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald
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“When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.” -Elizabeth Bowen
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“Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.” -Erich Segal
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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” -Fulton J. Sheen
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“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.” -Thomas Fuller
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“When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.” -Helen Hunt Jackson
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“Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.” -Billie Holiday
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“Love is metaphysical gravity.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.” -Miguel de Unamuno
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“The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.” -Kristin Chenoweth
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“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.” -William Congreve
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“Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” -Robert Browning
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“Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.” -John Ciardi
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“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.” -Jean Racine
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“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.” -Pearl Bailey
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“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.” -Joseph Conrad
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“I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.” -Nicholas Sparks
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“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.” -Henri Matisse
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“Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.” -Henry Drummond
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“Love is always being given where it is not required.” -E. M. Forster
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“The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.” -Helen Hayes
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“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.” -Lorraine Hansberry
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“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” -David Wilkerson
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“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” -Louise L. Hay
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“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” -Alexander Smith
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“We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.” -Bernard Meltzer
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“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.” -Jose Ortega y Gasset
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“When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.” -Gwendolyn Brooks
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“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.” -George Jean Nathan
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“The way to know life is to love many things.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.” -Euripides
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“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.” -Helen Rowland
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“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.” -Emmet Fox
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“Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.” -Anne Campbell
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“Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.” -John Gay
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“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” -Sarah Bernhardt
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“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.” -Charles Morgan
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“Love is suffering. One side always loves more.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” -James Thurber
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“Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.” -Josh Billings
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“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.” -H. L. Mencken
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“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.” -David Byrne
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“Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.” -Gilbert Parker
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“The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.” -Ken Kesey
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“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” -Pablo Picasso
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“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.” -Christina Rossetti
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“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” -Blaise Pascal
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“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” -Ferdinand Foch
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“Choose your love, Love your choice.” -Thomas S. Monson
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“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” -Erich Fromm
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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” -James A. Baldwin
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“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.” -George Eliot
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” -Victor Hugo
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“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” -Peter Ustinov
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“A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving.” -Cyrano de Bergerac
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“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.” -e. e. cummings
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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” -Emily Bronte
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“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” -Jesus Christ
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“Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited.” -Duke Ellington
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“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.” -David Grayson
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“I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.” -Theodore Dreiser
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“Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.” -Francis of Assisi
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“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.” -Plato
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“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” -Andre Breton
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“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” -Voltaire
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“It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” -Bertrand Russell
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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” -Paulo Coelho
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“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” -Lao Tzu
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“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” -Carl Sagan
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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.” -Henry Miller
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“The giving of love is an education in itself.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” -Albert Ellis
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