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| If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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| I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. Woody Allen Quotes |
| Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare Quotes |
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| Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. Joseph Alsop Quotes |
| Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes |
| No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. Robert Burton Quotes |
| To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Samuel Butler Quotes |
| We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. Albert Camus Quotes |
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| In love of home, the love of country has its rise. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. Euripides Quotes |
| He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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| It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide Quotes |
| The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. Andre Maurois Quotes |
| At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato Quotes |
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| I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa Quotes |
| If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa Quotes |
| Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given. Mother Teresa Quotes |
| Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. Virgil Quotes |
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| I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
| We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes |
| There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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| Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. Sydney J Harris Quotes |
| To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes |
| Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. George Washington Quotes |
| The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore M Hesburgh Quotes |
| Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes |
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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. James Baldwin Quotes |
| Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin Quotes |
| All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad Quotes |
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| The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis Quotes |
| Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm Quotes |
| For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland Quotes |
| Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo Quotes |
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| Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H L Mencken Quotes |
| Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. Robert Lee Frost Quotes |
| One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles Quotes |
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| But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin Quotes |
| The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. Robert Newton Anthony Quotes |
| O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen. Saint Augustine Quotes |
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| 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. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen Quotes |
| True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away. Alicia Barnhart Quotes |
| Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love and His kindness go on forever. The Bible Quotes |
| The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. The Bible Quotes |
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| The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done. Francis William Bourdillon Quotes |
| The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional. George W Bush Quotes |
| All's fair in love and war. Francis Edwards Quotes |
| Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. Robert Lee Frost Quotes |
| You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. Robert Lee Frost Quotes |
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| I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland Quotes |
| Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear Anonymous Quotes |
| First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in
love with them. Andy Rooney Quotes |
| I've learned ... that when you're in love, it shows. Andy Rooney Quotes |
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| "You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." Anonymous Quotes |
| "If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." Anonymous Quotes |
| "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." Anonymous Quotes |
| And, oh, how blessed is it thus to meet! To feel that vanished years have not estranged us,
distance has not diminished love, that we are to each other even as we parted; to feel again the fond kiss, to hear once more the accents of a voice which to us has been for years so still,--a voice that brings with it the gush of memory! Past days flit before us; feelings, thoughts, hopes, we deemed were dead, all rise again, summoned by that secret witchery, the well-remembered though long silent voice. Let years, long, lingering, saddening years drag on their chain, let youth have given place to manhood, manhood to age, still will it be the same--the voice we once have loved, and deemed to us for ever still--oh, time, and grief, and blighted hope will be forgotten, and youth, in its undimmed and joyous beauty, its glow of generous feelings, its bright anticipations, all, all again be ours. Grace Aguilar Quotes |
| "Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!" Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali Quotes |
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| "Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker" Anonymous Quotes |
| Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply. Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes |
| The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. Pearl Bailey Quotes |
| "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." James Baldwin Quotes |
| "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." James Baldwin Quotes |
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| Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. John Barrymore Quotes |
| The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together—the lover with the loved, the one who hates with the hated. Both passions are tested by separation. John Berger Quotes |
| All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient moments together. Now I cannot live apart from you...Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. Sarah Bernhardt Quotes |
| True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. Jim Bishop Quotes |
| "Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life." Smiley Blanton Quotes |
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| Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself. Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus) Quotes |
| As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| "...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody." Alain de Botton Quotes |
| The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others. Alain de Botton Quotes |
| "The best proof of love is trust." Joyce Brothers Quotes |
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| Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes |
| Love is the wild card of existence. Rita Mae Brown Quotes |
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need; by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath.
Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes |
| [Elizabeth wrote this poem to Robert; Robert’s reply: “Come grow old with me; the best is yet to be.”] Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes |
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand Who saith,
“A whole I planned, Youth shows but half;
trust God: see all, nor be afraid!'' Robert Browning Quotes |
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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 Buscaglia Quotes |
"Son, I'd say you were going at it the wrong end first," said the Judge, turning up his coat-collar. "How could you care about one girl? Have you ever cared about one leaf?"
Riley, listening to the wildcat with an itchy hunter's look, snatched at the leaves blowing about us like midnight butterflies; alive, fluttering as though to escape and fly, one stayed trapped between his fingers. The Judge, too: he caught a leaf; and it was worth more in his hand than in Riley's. Pressing it mildly against his cheek, he distantly said, "We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed--begin with these, learn a little what it is to love. First, a leaf, a fall of rain, then someone to receive what a leaf has taught you, what a fall of rain has ripened. No easy process, understand; it could take a lifetime, it has mine, and still I've never mastered it--I only know how true it is: that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life." Truman Capote Quotes |
"A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and care for the one you chose." Rob Cella Quotes |
| 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| "The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life." Lydia Maria Child Quotes |
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| "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
Paulo Coelho Quotes |
| "Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| "All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frame
All are but ministers of Love
And feed His sacred flame." Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." Joseph Conrad Quotes |
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| Another kind of love and compassion is not based on something appearing beautiful or nice, but based on the fact that the other person, just like oneself, wants happiness and does not want suffering and indeed has every right to be happy and to overcome suffering. On such a basis, we feel a sense of responsibility, a sense of closeness toward that being. That is true compassion. This is because the compassion is based on reason, notjust on emotional feeling. As a consequence, it does not matter what the other's attitude is, whether negative, or positive. What matters is that it is a human being, a sentient being that has the experience of pain and pleasure. There is no reason not to feel compassion so long as it is a sentient being. Dalai Lama Quotes |
| "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." Comte DeBussy-Rabutin Quotes |
| "Love builds bridges where there are none." R. H. Delaney Quotes |
Who dares deny that this is true:
The whole is more than all its parts?
A whole love than divided love,
Or than half love from fifty hearts?
Yet who dare either this deny:
The part is more than is the whole?
That treasures halved with one dear love
Are more than double to the soul? Arthur Dillon Quotes |
| "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
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| "Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks." John Donne Quotes |
| "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." Henry Drummond Quotes |
| The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond. Umberto Eco Quotes |
| "Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind." TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot Quotes |
| "The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." Albert Ellis Quotes |
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| How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time…The youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden’s eye…The mysterious communication that is established across a house between two entire strangers, by this means moves all the springs of wonder. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| "The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do." Nan Fairbrother Quotes |
| "In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." Erich Fromm Quotes |
| "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" Erich Fromm Quotes |
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| Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult. Sir David Paradine Frost Quotes |
| "Where there is love there is life." Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." Judy Garland Quotes |
| "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| We are shaped and fashioned by what [whom] we love.
Johann von Goethe Quotes |
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| "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." David Grayson Quotes |
| There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning -- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is. Lorraine Hansberry Quotes |
| "There is only one terminal dignity -- love." Helen Hayes Quotes |
| Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything. Katharine Hepburn Quotes |
| "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." Victor Hugo Quotes |
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| "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." Victor Hugo Quotes |
| "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." Javan Quotes |
“Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.”
“Another reason we hide is to protect ourselves from change. . . Still another reason we don't disclose ourselves is that we were never taught how. . . Personal ambitions and economic pressures also give us powerful reasons for concealing what we really are. . . All of us hide behind the iron curtain of our public selves. . . Men hide what prevents them from seeming strong and masculine. . .”
“Disclosure is so important (because) without it we really cannot know ourselves. Or to put it another way, we learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. For example, if I never express my sorrow, my love, my joy, I'll smother those feelings in myself until I almost forget they were once part of me.” Sidney Jourard Quotes |
| Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love. Sidney Jourard Quotes |
| I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist. John Keats Quotes |
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| "The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed." J. Krishnamurti Quotes |
| "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao-Tzu Quotes |
Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw
Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon.
And I do lift my aching arms to you,
And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,
And I do weep for very pain of you,
And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest. D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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Ah, how skilful grows the hand
That obeyeth Love's command!
It is the heart, and not the brain,
That to the highest doth attain,
And he who followeth Love's behest
Far excelleth all the rest! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
| published in "The Seaside and the Fireside" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
| "Do all things with love." Og Mandino Quotes |
| "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished." Og Mandino Quotes |
| This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. Thomas Mann Quotes |
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He drew a circle that shut me out--
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in. Edwin Markham Quotes |
| "This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love". Gerald Massey Quotes |
| It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity. The Matrix - Revolutions Quotes |
| I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham Quotes |
Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when they coincide...
That is beauty.
That is love. Peter McWilliams Quotes |
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| The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Moore Quotes |
| "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Theresa Quotes |
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul. Pablo Neruda Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." Anais Nin Quotes |
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| "Ama me fideliter!
Fidem meam noto:
De corde totaliter
Et ex mente tota,
Sum presentialiter
Absens in remota." Carl Orff Quotes |
| Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away." Carl Orff Quotes |
Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that was very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk.
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse. Dorothy Parker Quotes |
Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.
He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.
Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love. What we Love, we’ll Hear; what we Love, we’ll Trust; and what we Love, we’ll serve, ay, and suffer for too. If you love me (says our Blessed Redeemer) keep my Commandments. Why? Why then he’ll Love us; then we shall be his Friends; then he’ll send us the Comforter; then whatsoever we ask, we shall receive; and then where he is we shall be also, and that for ever. Behold the Fruits of Love; the Power, Vertue, Benefit and Beauty of Love! Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another. William Penn Quotes |
| "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
Plato Quotes |
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| "We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection." Sidney Poitier Quotes |
| True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
| "There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
| "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." Bertrand Russell Quotes |
Suddenly the ground seemed to give way beneath me,
and I found myself in quite another region.
Within five minutes I went through
some such reflections as the following:
the loneliness of the human soul is unendurable;
nothing can penetrate it except the highest intensity
of the sort of love that religious teachers have preached;
whatever does not spring from this motive is harmful,
or at best useless;
it follows that war is wrong,
that a public school education is abominable,
that the use of force is to be deprecated,
and that in human relations one should penetrate
to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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| "Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes |
| "I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, please ask God to love him, too." Gale Sayers Quotes |
Love therefore—the most beautiful phenomenon in the soul-filled creation, the omnipotent magnet in the spiritual world, the source of devotion and of the most sublime virtue—Love is only the reflection of this single original power, an attraction of the excellent, grounded upon an instantaneous exchange of the personality, a confusion of the beings.
When I hate, so take I something from myself; when I love, so become I so much the richer, by what I love. Forgiveness is the recovery of an alienated property - hatred of man a prolonged suicide; egoism the highest poverty of a created being. Friedrich von Schiller Quotes |
| True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. Erich Segal Quotes |
| "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Erich Segal Quotes |
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O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love...
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet... William Shakespeare Quotes |
Woe is me!
The winged words on which my soul would pierce
Into the heights of love's rare universe,
Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--
I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire. Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes |
| A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes |
| "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes |
| "To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." Anna Louise Strong Quotes |
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| "Nunc scio quit sit amor." Virgil Quotes |
| Lat., "Now I know what love is." Virgil Quotes |
In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The great eternal Government above
Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth.
Give thy love freely; do not count the cost;
So beautiful a thing was never lost
In the long run. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes |
| In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. Elijah Wood Quotes |
| The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin Quotes |
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| Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Quotes |
| The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. William Wordsworth Quotes |
| Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Love all, trust a few. William Shakespeare Quotes |
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| Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| 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 E. Gladstone Quotes |
| ...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much. from the journal of his Himalayan expedition W.H. Murray Quotes |
| Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving Quotes |
| Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Willa Cather Quotes |
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| Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. Willa Cather Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to made like bread; remade all the time, made new. Ursula LeGuin Quotes |
| Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. Author Unknown Quotes |
| 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. Other Voices, Other Rooms, 1948 Truman Capote Quotes |
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| It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. Thomas Merton Quotes |
| 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. Still Life With Woodpecker Tom Robbins Quotes |
| Perhaps; but is it not Tennyson who has said: "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all"? in The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler Quotes |
| The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?" Simone Weil Quotes |
| Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Sir Arthur Pinero Quotes |
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| This is my beloved and this is my friend. Song of Solomon Quotes |
| Where there is love, there is pain. Spanish proverb Quotes |
| Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. St. Augustine Quotes |
| Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. Sřren Kierkegaard Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Rumi Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... Rose Walker Quotes |
| Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great. Roger de Bussy-Rabutin Quotes |
| Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
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| I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum Quotes |
| Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. Birches Robert Frost Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich Quotes |
| What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey Quotes |
| The best love affairs are those we never had. Norman Lindsay Quotes |
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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. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes |
| Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa Quotes |
| But 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 Quotes |
| The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa Quotes |
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| Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right." (1999) Molleen Matsumura Quotes |
| Where there is love there is life. Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes |
| Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire. (2007) Molleen Matsumura Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. Mitsugi Saotome Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. Mary Parrish Quotes |
| 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. Blackwater Woods Mary Oliver Quotes |
| I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, jr. Quotes |
| Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
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| After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.Adam, in Adam's Diary Mark Twain Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson Quotes |
| [W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. Margaret Guenther Quotes |
| In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious. Marcel Proust Quotes |
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| Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently. Madeleine de Scudery Quotes |
| If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin Quotes |
| Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. Lisa Hoffman Quotes |
| Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. M. Scott Peck Quotes |
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| Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. John Lennon Quotes |
| We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Karl Menninger Quotes |
| Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn Quotes |
| Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. The Snow Queen Joan Vinge Quotes |
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| When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. James Thurber and E.B. White Quotes |
| Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. Jane Austen Quotes |
| One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. Jane Austen Quotes |
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| We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden. Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire Quotes |
| All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life. Jean Goss Quotes |
| Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau Quotes |
| A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. The Quaker Reader, 1962 Jessamyn West Quotes |
| On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. Isha McKenzie-Mavinga Quotes |
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| The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. Another Country, 1962 James Baldwin Quotes |
| We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdock Quotes |
| I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time. Hobbes (of Calvin and ...) Quotes |
| Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. Houssaye Quotes |
| A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman Quotes |
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| If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
| If I know what love is, it is because of you. Herman Hesse Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. Helen Keller Quotes |
| The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. Spiritual Dimensions of Psychology Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes |
| ...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. b. 1917 Chinese writer and physician Han Suyin [Elizabeth Comber] Quotes |
| 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. HH the Dalai Lama Quotes |
| Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. HH the Dalai Lama Quotes |
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| To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. Goethe Quotes |
| 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. Prejudices, 1919 H. L. Mencken Quotes |
| Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. The Life of Reason, 1905-1906 George Santayana Quotes |
| Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes |
| To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. George MacDonald Quotes |
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| There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand Quotes |
| The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones Quotes |
| It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| We need not think alike to love alike. Francis David Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides Quotes |
| When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being. Ernest Becker Quotes |
| 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 command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. Emma Goldman Quotes |
| Whoso loves, believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barret Browning Quotes |
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| Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel Quotes |
| I love humanity but I hate people. Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes |
| Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect... E.M. Forster Quotes |
| Life is a quest and love a quarrel ... Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes |
| Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley Quotes |
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| You call it madness, but I call it love. Don Byas Quotes |
| Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. Dale Evans Quotes |
| 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 spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth. Chaucer Quotes |
| Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. Carter Heyward Quotes |
| The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous -- a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change -- and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it -- at which point they can become human too. Bayard Rustin Quotes |
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| Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara De Angelis Quotes |
| Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Barbara De Angelis Quotes |
| Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes |
| Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Allan K. Chalmers Quotes |
| Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from [humankind] the conflicts which this ethic will involve [us], but allow [us] really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation -- this is the difficult task which confronts our age.” Albert Schweitzer Quotes |
| Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Diane Ackerman Quotes |
| I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
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| You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
| If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen. Samuel Adams Quotes |
| My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. William Adams Quotes |
| Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Joseph Addison Quotes |
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| For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom Fortune prospereth unenvying. Æschylus Quotes |
| Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry. Anouk Aimée Quotes |
| I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual. John Fellows Akers Quotes |
| I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any. Emma Albani Quotes |
| Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott Quotes |
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| When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. Brian Aldiss Quotes |
| The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand. Fred Allen Quotes |
| As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Lane Allen Quotes |
| Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. Woody Allen Quotes |
| Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy. Gordon William Allport Quotes |
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| Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes |
| Love is faith, and one faith leads to another. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes |
| Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be Swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes |
| I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad. Anacreon Quotes |
| We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance. Joan Wester Anderson Quotes |
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| The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives. Father Andrew SDC Quotes |
| Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, "I am with you kid. Let's go. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? Edith Ann Quotes |
| Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
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| People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them. Aharon Appelfeld Quotes |
| In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Janos Arany Quotes |
| I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino Quotes |
| Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. Aristotle Quotes |
| In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Janos Arnay Quotes |
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| In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. Elizabeth Ashley Quotes |
| O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Saint Francis of Assisi Quotes |
| I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police. Janina Atkins Quotes |
| We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens. (Justin) Brooks Atkinson Quotes |
| Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! Paul Aubuchon Quotes |
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| To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. Paul Aubuchon Quotes |
| Only little boys and old men sneer at love. Louis Auchincloss Quotes |
| In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes |
| The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me. Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes |
| Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes |
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| Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Saint Augustine Quotes |
| I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love. Sri da Avabhas Quotes |
| Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men … their wars, their concentration camps, their justice. Marcel Ayme Quotes |
| Life Is A Challenge - Meet It! Life Is A Song - Sing It! Life Is A Dream - Realize It! Life Is A Game - Play It! Life Is Love - Enjoy It! Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Quotes |
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| Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. June Masters Bacher Quotes |
| It is impossible to love and to be wise. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. Baha'u'llah Quotes |
| A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Pearl Bailey Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Russell Wayne Baker Quotes |
| The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
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| A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| 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. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| The more one judges, the less one loves. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. John Perry Barlow Quotes |
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| Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. Sir James Matthew Barrie Quotes |
| Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. Dave Barry Quotes |
| Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry Quotes |
| If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. Lynda Barry Quotes |
| You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. Ethel Barrymore Quotes |
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| The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. Don Barthelme Quotes |
| I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes |
| A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil Quotes |
| The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. Orlando A. Battista Quotes |
| We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. R. J. Baughan Quotes |
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| Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. Louise Beal Quotes |
| I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir Quotes |
| Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. Alan Marshall Beck Quotes |
| The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action. Edward Bedore Quotes |
| It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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| I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time. Hilaire Belloc Quotes |
| I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. Buy Money gives me pleasure all the time. Hilaire Belloc Quotes |
| The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. Brendan Francis Behan Quotes |
| To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself. Bernard Iddings Bell Quotes |
| True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is. Brad Bell Quotes |
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| From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. Hilaire Belloc Quotes |
| There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. David Ben-Gurion Quotes |
| The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. Walter Benjamin Quotes |
| Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger. Stella Benson Quotes |
| In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. P.L. Berger Quotes |
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| Hell, Madame, is to love no longer. Georges Bernanos Quotes |
| [It was] an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else. Leonard Bernstein Quotes |
| Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith. Adel Bestavros Quotes |
| I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough. Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco Quotes |
| Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love and His kindness go on forever. 1 Chronicles 16:34 TLB Bible Quotes |
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| This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. 1 John 4:9 NIV Bible Quotes |
| The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:7-8 Bible Quotes |
| But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1 Timothy 6:11 Bible Quotes |
| By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 13:35 Bible Quotes |
| A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Proverbs 17:17 Bible Quotes |
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| It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. Psalm 127:2 Bible Quotes |
| I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED. Song of Songs 2:1 Bible Quotes |
| Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings Quotes |
| Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. Josh Billings Quotes |
| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings Quotes |
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| When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? Jim Quotes |
| I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. David Bissonette Quotes |
| Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. William Blake Quotes |
| For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. William Blake Quotes |
| Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake Quotes |
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| Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life. Smiley Blanton Quotes |
| Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed. Angel Blessing Quotes |
| They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Thomas Edward Bodett Quotes |
| To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges Quotes |
| Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve. Joan Borysenko Quotes |
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| I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. Nelson Boswell Quotes |
| Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. Nadia Boulanger Quotes |
| It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. John Christian Bovee Quotes |
| 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
| Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha. Hal Quotes |
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| If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. Anne Dudley Bradstreet Quotes |
| War is like love; it always finds a way. Bertolt Brecht Quotes |
| When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge Quotes |
| I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them. Robert Bridges Quotes |
| [Richard] Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win … and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied. Fawn M. Brodie Quotes |
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| If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte Quotes |
| Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. Rupert Brooke Quotes |
| Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. Anita Brookner Quotes |
| She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. |
