Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Love Quotes from famous authors such as Theodor W. Adorno, Marla Gibbs, D. H. Lawrence, Lawrence Welk, Judy Collins. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
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In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
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I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
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I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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We didn’t take Charlize Theron seriously until she did ‘Monster’ and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.
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If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
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A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
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I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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But love’s a malady without a cure.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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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.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
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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.
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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.
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Life is just a bowl of cherries, don’t take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
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Love and a red rose can’t be hid.
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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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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.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.
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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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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.
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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
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I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
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Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.
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I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That’s my motto.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
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Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.
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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
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Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
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I fell in love with the Maldives. It’s a beautiful place!
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There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
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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.
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Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
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If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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The way to know life is to love many things.
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The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
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Do all things with love.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
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When young people fall in love, they start to understand my music.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
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Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody’s going to hate you for it.
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Who loves, raves.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
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Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
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The more people love you, the more there’s going to be people that hate you.
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
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It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
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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.
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Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
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We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.
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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.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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.
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I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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One must not trifle with love.
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I feel extremely honoured and humbled that people are showing me so much love. My fans have stood by me through thick and thin, and I think this love is what makes my concerts house-full.
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True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.
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One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself… to take care of yourself.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
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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.
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I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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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.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Maybe true love isn’t out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
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You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
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If you are confident about yourself and wear what you love, you will exude a style of your own.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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.
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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord.
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Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.
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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.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
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Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.
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The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
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I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.
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I’m a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God’s greatest creations, I really do. They’re interesting and intriguing.
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Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
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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 my head above the water.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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I love travelling; going to different parts of the world and making new friends is something that I really enjoy.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
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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.
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Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
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I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they’re sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.
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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
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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.
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The first duty of love is to listen.
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Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Give me love and work – these two only.
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I love this stuff – bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology – and what the future holds.
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Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
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Love is friendship set on fire.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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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.
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It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
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It’s definitely a privilege to be able to do what you love to do; it’s not something that everyone gets to do, so I feel really good about that.
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Let’s practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
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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.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
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My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
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We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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All love is lost but upon God alone.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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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.
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With our love, we could save the world.
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Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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I love black and white and very simple and classic clothes.
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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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.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ’s true love and forgiveness.
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don’t know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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It is very easy to love alone.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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The crime of loving is forgetting.
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I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it’s been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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Life is short but love your loved ones. Love them, kiss them every day because you don’t know what’s going to happen.
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True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.
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Love without conversation is impossible.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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The best way to know God is to love many things.
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I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.
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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.
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I hate to lose more than I love to win.
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It’s important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
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May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
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There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
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The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.
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Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.
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Love is trembling happiness.
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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
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I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
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I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.
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If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
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I’m having fun. I’m being myself. I’m doing what I love. That’s all that matters.
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When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.
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Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
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What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
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‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
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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.
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Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God.
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There are never enough I Love You’s.
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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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.
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Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
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If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
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I now believe in love at first sight. Especially after it’s happened to me.
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If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
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I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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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.
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Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
298
To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
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Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
305
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.
306
I’ll always love the time I spent making ‘Black and White.’
307
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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.
309
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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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.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
316
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
318
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
319
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
320
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
321
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
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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.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
328
If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.
329
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
330
Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Do what you love and the money will follow.
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I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I’m always looking forward to seeing what they’re going to become and what they’re going to be interested in later in life.
335
When my, British-Church of England mother married my, Canadian-Jewish Father, the deal was that she would embrace Judaism, but wouldn’t give up her Christmas tree. So, I grew up with Christmas every year. I loved it then and I love it now.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
338
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
340
Love alone could waken love.
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I want to love. I want to enjoy life.
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
343
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
346
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
347
I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.
348
I love the unknown, and any day that I get to experience someplace new is a good day.
349
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
350
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
351
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
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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.
353
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
357
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
358
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
359
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
360
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
362
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.
363
I’m very thankful to all my fans for their constant love and support. I am what I am because of their unconditional love.
364
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
365
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
366
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
367
Love is a better teacher than duty.
368
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.
369
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
371
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
374
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
377
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
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I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
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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.
380
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
381
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.
383
Love the giver more than the gift.
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I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
385
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
386
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
387
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
388
Whatever I am today is all because of the love and support I have received from the people of Haryana.
389
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
390
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
391
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.
392
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
393
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
394
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
396
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
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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.
398
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
399
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
400
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
401
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
402
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
403
Don’t forget to love yourself.
404
Love, and do what you like.
405
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
406
I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
407
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
408
Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
409
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
410
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
411
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
412
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
413
People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.
414
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
415
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
416
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
417
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
418
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
419
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
420
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.
421
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
422
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
423
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
424
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
425
Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
426
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
427
I am overwhelmed by the love showered on me by my fans.
428
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.
429
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
430
Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
431
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
432
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
433
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
434
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
435
I love natural beauty, and I think it’s your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.
436
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
437
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
438
True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.
439
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
440
Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
441
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
442
The course of true love never did run smooth.
443
I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
444
Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.
445
I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don’t.
446
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
447
He that is jealous is not in love.
448
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
449
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
450
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
451
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
452
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
453
You just have to be true to yourself and do what you love to do.
454
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
455
Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
456
I just want people to know me and to love me, because I have no love.
457
If music be the food of love, play on.
458
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
459
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
460
I love the rain. It’s my favorite weather.
461
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
462
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
463
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
464
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
465
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
466
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
467
The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
468
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
469
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
471
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
472
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
473
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
474
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
475
Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.
476
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
477
If you’ve got love you’ve got life, if you can love you can live.
478
Football is unconditional love.
479
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
480
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
481
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
482
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
483
I have my flaws, but I embrace them and I love them because they’re mine.
484
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
485
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
486
I have, like, a playlist with all my favourite songs on it. Sadie’s Playlist is the soundtrack of my life. ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis, ‘Under The Bridge’ by Red Hot Chili Peppers, TLC, ‘Waterfalls’ – I love the ’90s.
487
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
488
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
489
Love is energy of life.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
491
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
492
If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It’s all or nothing. In this damn world, it’s all or nothing.
493
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
494
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
495
I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
496
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
497
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.
498
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
499
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
