Love Quotes

Love Quotes


Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott

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Those who deserve love the least need it the most.
Bo Bennett
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Love is an act of will-- namely, both an intention and an action.
M. Scott Peck
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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
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Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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It must be the foundation, the cornerstone.
Bette Davis
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
Robert Bridges
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Love is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
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Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.
Wilfred Sheed
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No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
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It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
Lillian Hellman
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Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joseph Joubert
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
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The physical union with one's wife is a source of friendship; it is like sharing a great mystery together.
Plutarch
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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
J.C. Powys
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
Thomas P Kempis.
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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournier
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran
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In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.
Wilbert Donald Gough
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself,Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran
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If thou must love me, let it be for nought except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.
Erich Fromm
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To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.
Erich Fromm
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A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind.
French Proverb
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There are deep sorrows and killing cares in life, but the encouragement and love of friends were given us to make all difficulties bearable.
Unknown
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis
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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
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz
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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong
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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
Henry Bromel
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
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We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
Jane Austen
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane Austen
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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen
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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
Jane Austen
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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna