975 private quotes tagged love

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.” — Bertrand Russell

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“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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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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“We pardon to the extent that we love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.” — George Bernard Shaw

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

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“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.” — Sigmund Freud

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“We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.” — Plato

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“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Love is not consolation. It is light.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.” — Dalai Lama

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“If you wished to be loved, love.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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“Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.” — H. L. Mencken

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