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In the arithmetic of love, one plus
one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
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What greater thing is there for two
human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each
other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable
memories.
~ George Eliot
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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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There is more hunger for love and
appreciation in this world than for bread.
~ Mother Teresa
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Love cannot endure indifference. It
needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil
of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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You will find as you look back upon
your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the
moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
~ Henry Drummond
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the
lover endureth his torments willingly.
~Proverb
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We loved with a love that was more
than love.
~Edgar Allan Poe
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Anyone can be passionate, but it takes
real lovers to be silly.
~Rose Franken
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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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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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Love works in miracles every day: such
as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of
the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying
reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
~ Marguerite De Valois
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All love that has not friendship for
its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Love is the emblem of eternity: it
confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all
fear of an end.
~ Germaine De Stael
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Love is the history of a woman's life;
it is an episode in man's. ~ Germaine De Stael
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The loving are the daring.
~ Bayard Taylor
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Loneliness and the feeling of being
unwanted is the most terrible.
~ Mother Teresa
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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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The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best portion of a good man's
life...His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of
love.
~ William Wordsworth
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Grow old along with me, the best is
yet to be.
~ Robert Browning
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Love is a thing, well, its kind of
like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
~ UB40
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Love is the expansion of two natures
in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the
other.
~ Felix Adler
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Think about it, there must be higher
love.
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above.
Without it, life is a wasted time.
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
~ Steve Winwood
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Love is an electric blanket with
somebody else in control of the switch.
~ Cathy Carlyle
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Love does not consist in gazing at
each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Romance has been elegantly defined as
the offspring of fiction and love.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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Find the person who will love you
because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have
found a lover for life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the
sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger
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To laugh often and love much... to
appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self...
this is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu
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The heart has reasons that reason does
not understand.
~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel
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Love is always bestowed as a gift --
freely, willingly, and without expectation.
We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
~ Leo Buscaglia
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Love is the true means by which the
world is enjoyed, our love to others, and others' love to us.
~ Thomas Trahern
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
~ William Thackeray
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Love is a mutual self-giving which
ends in self-recovery.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
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We find rest in those we love, and we
provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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Love grows by giving. The love we give
away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to
give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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The most powerful symptom of love is a
tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~ Victor Hugo
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There is no instinct like that of the
heart.
~ Lord Byron
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To fear love is to fear life, and
those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell
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We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch
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May no gift be too small to give,
nor too simple to receive,
which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
and tied with love.
~ L.O. Baird
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Spread love everywhere you go: first
of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife
or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
~ Mother Teresa
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The dedicated life is the life worth
living. You must give with your whole heart.
~ Anne Dillard
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Being deeply loved by someone gives
you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Wherever you go, go with all your
heart
Confucius.
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Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours
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Nothing is as liberating as joy. It
frees the mind and fills it with tranquility.
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete,
until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always
find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
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Love is an act of faith, and whoever
is of little faith is also of little love.
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Be patient with all that is unresolved
in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not
search for answers which cannot yet be given you but live the
questions now. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions
now, and some day, without noticing it, you will gradually live your
way into the answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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It is a curious thought, but it is
only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just
how much you love them.--- Agatha Christie
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A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold
it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts
everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be
examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can
be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway
to life.
Celia Luce
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Love is the master key that opens the
gates of happiness.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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You come to love not by finding the
perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen
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What the heart has once owned and had,
it shall never lose.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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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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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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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving
ourselves works miracles in our lives.
~ Louise Hay
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Lust is what makes you keep wanting
it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what
makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no
desire to do it.
~ Judith Viorst
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No disguise can long conceal love
where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
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PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods
and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
They that are rich in words, in words discover
That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
~ Sir Walter Raleigh
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Bitterness imprisons life; love
releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness
sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals
it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Real love is a permanently
self-enlarging experience. Falling in love is not.
~ M. Scott Peck
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Love … is a quicksilver word; though
you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it
to find that it is not there but someplace else.
~ Morton Hunt
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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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Love cures people, the ones who
receive love and the ones who give it, too.
~ Karl A Menninger
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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 impossible to repent of love.
The sin of love does not exist.
~ Muriel Spark
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It is not love, but lack of love,
which is blind." <br>
~ Glenway Wescott
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Quarrels in France strengthen a love
affair, in America they end it.
~ Ned Rorem
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Let those love now who never loved
before; Let those who always loved, now love the more.
~ Thomas Parnell
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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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Love talked about can be easily turned
aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
~ W Stanley Mooneyham
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Love can be understood only “from the
inside,” as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks
it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
~ Robert C Solomon
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[Her] love and tenderness … gave me
the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write
this play—write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness
for all the four haunted Tyrones.
~ Eugene O’Neill
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The love that lasts longest is the
love that is never returned.
~ Somerset Maugham
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As sweet and musical
As bright Apollo’s lute, strung with his hair;
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
~ William Shakespeare
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This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan
Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.
~ William Shakespeare
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Be of love (a little) more careful
than of anything.
~ e e cummings
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit.
~ Peter Ustinov
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Love is an energy which exists of
itself. It is its own value.
~ Thornton Wilder
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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 is not weakness. It is strong.
Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
~ Boris Pasternak
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Love is an attempt to change a piece
of a dream world into reality.
~ Theodor Reik
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Work and love—these are the basics.
Without them there is neurosis.
~ Theodor Reik
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Love is a hole in the heart.
~ Ben Hecht
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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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Love is that splendid triggering of
human vitality … the supreme activity which nature affords anyone
for going out of himself toward someone else.
~ José Ortega y Gasset
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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 Le Guin
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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s
indifference.
~ Elie Wiesel
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Falling in love is not an extension of
one s limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse
of them.
~ M Scott Peck
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The first duty of love is to listen.
~ Paul Tillich
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In literature as in love, we are
astonished at what is chosen by others.
~ André Maurois
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Cooking is like love. It should be
entered into with abandon or not at all.
~ Harriet Van Horne
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Many a man has fallen in love with a
girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
~ Maurice Chevalier
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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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A successful marriage requires falling
in love many times, always with the same person.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
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One advantage of marriage, it seems to
me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of
love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.
~ Judith Viorst
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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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A fastidious person in the throes of
love is a rich source of mirth.
~ Martha Duffy
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To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!
~ Robert Burns
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