Quotes about Love (page 11)

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“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
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“Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.”
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“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
MisattributedNot by John Lennon. Earliest known source: Lyrics by Roland Orzabal and Nicky Holland, Tears for Fears, 'Advice for the Young at Heart' (1989). · evidenceLove
“I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.”
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“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.”
Verified"Love and Mushrooms," journal entry (1917), published in More Extracts from a Journal, ed. J. Middleton Murry, in The Adelphi (1923), p. 1068 · evidenceLove
“Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.”
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“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
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“If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.”
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“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
DisputedNo reliable early source found for Washington Irving. · evidenceLove
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
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“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”
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“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
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“We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.”
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“No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.”
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“If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.”
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“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”
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“Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.”
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“It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.”
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“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
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“Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.”
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“If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
VerifiedThe Way of the World (1700), Act III, scene xii · evidenceLove
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”
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“Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.”
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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
VerifiedThe Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1952) · evidenceLove
“Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.”
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“Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.”
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“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.”
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“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
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“Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.”
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“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
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