975 private quotes tagged love

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you p--n your intelligence to buy a drink.” — E. E. Cummings

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“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.” — Judith Viorst

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“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.” — Anna Louise Strong

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“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.” — Drew Barrymore

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“For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” — Ben Hecht

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“I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.” — Kent Nerburn

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“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.” — Michelle Obama

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“When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.” — Natalie Clifford Barney

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“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.” — Francois Rabelais

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“The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.” — Basil Hume

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“It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.” — Charlie Sheen

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“I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.” — Drew Barrymore

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“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” — Marianne Williamson

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“Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!” — Sitting Bull

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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James A. Baldwin

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“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.” — Thomas Merton

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