Love Quotes
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
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This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
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Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.
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Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.
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There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs.
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O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.
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Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
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A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!
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It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
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I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.
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I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.
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When they talked of love and women—and of course they sometimes talked of love and women — Lewes would bring out views which Christopher, whose views they used to be too, only he had forgotten that, considered, now that he had come to know Catherine, as so much—the word was his—tripe.
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Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.
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God loves you because of whom you are but he blesses you because of what you do.
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Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.
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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
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There is nothing so inspiring to a woman as seeing love in a man's eyes when he looks at her.
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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
