975 private quotes tagged love

“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

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“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not.” — Dylan Thomas

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“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.” — Mae West

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“When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.” — Michael Jackson

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“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” — Albert Ellis

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“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.” — Pope John Paul II

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“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.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“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.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“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.” — Saint Augustine

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“My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.” — Michelle Obama

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“True love doesn't happen right away it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.” — Ricardo Montalban

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“Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your a-s off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.” — Henry Rollins

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“I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.” — W. H. Auden

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“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a d--n.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Respect is what we owe love, what we give.” — Philip James Bailey

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“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” — Washington Irving

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“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” — William Arthur Ward

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“A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.” — Frank Morgan

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“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” — John Steinbeck

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“The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.” — Charles L. Allen

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“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.” — Christopher Marlowe

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“I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.” — Zac Efron

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