975 private quotes tagged love

“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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“This love is silent.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.” — Pablo Picasso

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“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” — Dalai Lama

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“People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.” — Bob Hope

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“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.” — A. Whitney Brown

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“Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.” — John Ciardi

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“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.” — Paulo Coelho

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“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.” — Princess Diana

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“It's a very strange thing, love. You can't get rid of it. If you try to give it out, you get more back. If you try to hang onto it, you lose it.” — Warren Buffett

Source:Becoming Warren Buffett

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“Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?” — Tony Robbins

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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” — Sophia Loren

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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.” — Ayn Rand

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“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.” — Plato

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“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” — Maya Angelou

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