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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
(Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
Greatest English dramatist & poet
1564 - 1616
Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
US novelist
1902 - 1968
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
US (Russian-born) novelist
1905 - 1982
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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.
US abolitionist & clergyman
1813 - 1887
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Scottish author
1850 - 1894
Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.
Unknown - epitaph for a loved one
Unknown
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides - Orestes (408 BC)
Greek tragic dramatist
484 - 406
lovers alone wear sunlight
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.
Love as Thought is Truth.
Love as Action is Right Conduct.
Love as Understanding is Peace.
Love as Feeling is Non-violence.
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
US Humorist
1818 - 1885
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
The first duty of love is to listen.
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Do what you love and the business will follow.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
USA Transcendentalist author
1817 - 1862
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Motherhood All love begins and ends there.
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
US (Hungarian-born) actress
1919 -
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
Love is the life of humanity.
Emanuel Swedenborg - From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1
Swedish mystic & scientist
1688 - 1772
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Lie Down and Roll Over and 159 Other Ways To Say I Love You
SMILE GOD LOVES YOU
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
427 - 347
A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.
I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.
Andrew Soloman - ?The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression?
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
English essayist, novelist, & satirist
1903 - 1950
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.
Love is the reason for it all.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Indian humanitarian & missionary
1910 - 1997
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.
Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.
Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
US author
1856 - 1915
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
There is only one terminal dignity -- love.
The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.
The best love affairs are those we never had.
Love is not blind-It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.

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