“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.”
Quotes about love
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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”
“Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
“It is very easy to love alone.”
“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.”
“Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?”
“What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!”
“I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.”
“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”
“We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”
“You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.”
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”
“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.”
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”