975 private quotes tagged love

“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Tis better to have loved and lost.
Than never to have loved at all.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Because of a great love, one is courageous.” — Lao Tzu

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“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha

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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” — Ernest Hemingway

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“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha

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“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare

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“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” — Bradley Whitford

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“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.” — Oscar Wilde

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“We loved with a love that was more than love.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“The older you get, the fewer things you really love.” — Sergeant James

Source:The Hurt Locker, 2008. Film.

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“Love is metaphysical gravity.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” — Bruce Lee

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“I love those who yearn for the impossible.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.” — Lord Byron

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“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi

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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” — Rumi

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“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.” — Robert Frost

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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

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“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller

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“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.” — Victor Hugo

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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” — Marcus Aurelius

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