975 private quotes tagged love

“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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“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.” — Aldous Huxley

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“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” — Paul Sweeney

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“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty d--n good.” — Woody Allen

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“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” — Albert Einstein

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“Love is trembling happiness.” — Khalil Gibran

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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“To love beauty is to see light.” — Victor Hugo

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“The way to know life is to love many things.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm

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“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” — Bertrand Russell

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“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury

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“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” — Alan Watts

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“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” — Khalil Gibran

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“I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.” — Bob Hope

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“Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Everything is clearer when you're in love.” — John Lennon

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“If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.” — Will Rogers

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“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.” — Frank Zappa

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“Love is the river of life in the world.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Knowledge is love and light and vision.” — Helen Keller

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