TOP AUTHOR QUOTES
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love.
~ by W. Somerset Maugham
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
~ Honore de Balzac ~
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Paradise is always where love dwells.
~ by Jean Paul F. Richter ~
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The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.
~ by Francis W. Bourdillon ~
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
~ by Thomas Fuller ~
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Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
~ by Ralph Connor ~
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The human heart, at whatever age,
opens to the heart that opens in return.
~ by Maria Edgeworth ~
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What the heart gives away is never gone …
It is kept in the hearts of others.
~ by Robin St. John ~
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul.
~ by St. Augustine ~
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Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within the reach of every hand.
~ by Mother Teresa ~
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The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
~ by Maulana Jalalu’ddin Rumi ~
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
~ by Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
By Bertrand Russell
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The way you love anything is to realize it might be lost.
By G.K. Chesterton
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
By Anais Nin
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Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
By Diane Arbus
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They do not love that do not show their love. –
By John Heywood
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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. –
By David Grayson
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The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love, love someone else. –
Unknown
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A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you’ll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh;
To have it leave, you’d rather die;
You hope you’ve found that special rose, ‘
Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
– Rob Cella
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My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night. But ah, my foes and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light! –
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. –
By Kahlil Gibran
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You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
By Sam Keen
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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. –
By Margery Williams
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. –
Unknown
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Sleeping alone, except under doctor’s orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge. –
by Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. –
By Henry Ward Beecher
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A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. –
By Agatha Christie
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Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ‘Tis woman’s whole existence. –
By Lord Byron
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. –
By George Eliot
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What we love to do, we find time to do
By John L. Spalding
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Immature love says, ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says, ‘I need you because I love you.’
By Erich Fromm
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The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.
By Brian Tracy
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
By Oscar Wilde
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
By Helen Rowland
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If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it.
By Rabert A. Henlein Lazarus Long
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If you have it [love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.
By Sir James M. Barrie
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Platonic love is like an inactive volcano. –
By Andre Pevost
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Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.
By Sir Winston Churchill
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. –
By Barbara DeAngelis
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He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open. –
By Rabindranath Tagore
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Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. –
By Franklin P. Jones
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One good thing about internet dating: you’re guaranteed to click with whomever you meet. –
By Mongo
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You will find as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. –
By Henry Drummond
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Love without return is like a question without an answer. –
Unknown
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When the power of love, overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. –
By Jimi Hendrix
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. –
By Goncourt
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The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can never end. –
By Disraeli
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It is better to break one’s heart than to do nothing with it. –
By Margaret Kennedy
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I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soul mate – but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza. –
By Alf Whit
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If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with. –
By Stephen Stills
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If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it’s yours, if it doesn’t, it never was. –
By Richard Bach
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.–
By Pearl Bailey
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Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.
By Antiphanes
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No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not.
By Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.
By Frank A. Clark
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I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
By Roy Croft
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Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
By Charles Dickens
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You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world. –
By David Levesque
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Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner’s hand, knowing they will be handled with care. –
By Carl S. Avery
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. –
By Bertrand Russell
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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.
By Bertrand Russell
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If thou must love me, let it be not for naught
Except for love’s sake 0nly
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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In silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people
By Judy Garland
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Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, “I want only you”
By Martin Luther
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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
By Theophile Gantier
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Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
By Tea Rose
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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.
By Aldous Leonard Huxley British writer
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
By Sophocles
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Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
By Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
By Harold Loukes
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It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
By Mother Teresa
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them. –
By Mother Teresa
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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
By Mother Teresa
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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
By Mother Teresa
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How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
–By Albert Einstein
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
By Albert Einstein