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We
only regard those unions as real examples of love and real
marriages
in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been
taken. If men or
women contemplate an escape, they do not
collect all their powers for
the task. In none of the serious and
important tasks of life do we
arrange such a "getaway." We
cannot love and be limited. ALFRED
ADLER |
I hold it
true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better
to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON |
We look forward
to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then
will our world know the blessings of peace.
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE |
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My bounty is as boundless
as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I
have, for both are infinite.
"Romeo and Juliet"
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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love
are the best parts of a person's life.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he
bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an
unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the
"why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how." VICTOR
FRANKL |
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Love doesn't just sit there like
a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made
new.
URSULA K. LEGUIN
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How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of
chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first
love? ALBERT EINSTEIN
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth
and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with
whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN
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Love is patient,
love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not
proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily
angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth. BIBLE
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Trouble is part of your life — if you don't share it, you don't
give the person who loves you a chance to love you
enough.
DINAH SHORE
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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.
Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to
subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not
conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been
utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and
pomp his gold can EMMA
GOLDMAN
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Love seems
the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really
knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a
century. MARK
TWAIN
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into
friend.
MARTIN LUTHER KING,
JR.
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One of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony
and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there
was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that
was previously flat. MOLLY
HASKELL
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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever
loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It
merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and
the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as
possible. OSCAR
WILDE
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Do you
love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love
me?
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN,
II
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a
human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His
mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and
finds no other inspiration. PEARL
S. BUCK
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For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last
test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
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I love you
Not only for what you are
But
for what I am
When I am with you
ROY
CROFT
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The
bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b)
that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be
transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for
the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
TOM
ROBBINS
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to
satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very
much. ZORA NEALE
HURSTON
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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the
best parts of a person's life. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love
as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are
infinite.
"Romeo and Juliet"
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes
lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered
conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite
suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of
existence, memory. TRUMAN
CAPOTE
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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters
itself.
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
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You learn
to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by
working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to
learn in any other way deceive themselves. SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference
between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What
is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases
hatred. MOHANDAS K. GANDHI
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Those who
love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
SIR ARTHUR PINERO
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself that you have built against
it.
RUMI
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I truly feel that there are as many ways
of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the
life of those people.
MARY S. CALDERONE
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Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity,
eternity can be the tick of a
clock.
MARY PARRISH
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You know
quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single
power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love
your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion
that hurts, nothing else.
HERMANN
HESSE
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched
and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed.
But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for
genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial
desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward
integration and unity. HENRI
NOUWEN
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When we
feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved
and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
THE DALAI LAMA
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of
perceptual anesthesia -- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god
or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
H. L. MENCKEN
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know
how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and
betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of
witherings, of tarnishings. ANAIS NIN
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There is no remedy for love but to love
more.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of
chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next
to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens
forever. AMY TAN
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If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many
things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's
not enough.
ANN LANDERS
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Love doesn't make the world go
'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FRANKLIN P. JONES
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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was
wasted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
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In those
whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can:
they all make me laugh. W. H. AUDEN
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People who are sensible about love are incapable of
it. DOUGLAS YATES |
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I love
thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun
grows cold,
And the stars grow old.
BAYARD TAYLOR:
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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people
have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a
miracle.
AMY BLOOM: |
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does
not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It
is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight
in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
I
Corinthians 13:4-8 |
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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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Him that I love, I wish to be free
-- even from me.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH:
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Tell me who admires and loves you, And I will
tell you who you are.
CHARLES AUGUSTIN
SAINTE-BEUVE
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For there is one thing I can safely
say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep
company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes,
the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell -- he is gone. Love
is a thing as free as any
CHAUCER
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Love
is not a necessity, but it is life’s greatest gift and luxury
PAUL BARTON |
A kiss is a lovely trick
designed by nature to stop speech when words become
superfluous.
INGRID BERGMAN
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Infantile
love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love
follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says:
"I love you because I need you."Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you." ERICH
FROMM
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Love does not
die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's
hazards, save one --
neglect.
JAMES D. BRYDEN
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When the
power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
JIMI HENDRIX
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Perfect love is
rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the
subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity
of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the
saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the
certain. LEO BUSCAGLI |
Love doesn't
make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride
worthwhile. FRANKLIN P.
JONES
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To love and
win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. WILLIAM M.
THACKERAY
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