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Never talk about yourself on a first date-- it's like playing online poker with a web cam.
-Anon.
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"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
-Anon.
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"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
-Anon.
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"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
-Anon.
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And, oh, how blessed is it thus to meet! To feel that vanished years have not estranged us,
distance has not diminished love, that we are to each other even as we parted; to feel again the fond kiss, to hear once more the accents of a voice which to us has been for years so still,--a voice that brings with it the gush of memory! Past days flit before us; feelings, thoughts, hopes, we deemed were dead, all rise again, summoned by that secret witchery, the well-remembered though long silent voice. Let years, long, lingering, saddening years drag on their chain, let youth have given place to manhood, manhood to age, still will it be the same--the voice we once have loved, and deemed to us for ever still--oh, time, and grief, and blighted hope will be forgotten, and youth, in its undimmed and joyous beauty, its glow of generous feelings, its bright anticipations, all, all again be ours.
http://library.beau.org/gutenberg/1/2/3/6/12362/12362-8.txt
-Grace Aguilar, The Mother's Recompense, Volume II, 1859
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"Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!"
-Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali
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"Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker"
-Anonymous
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Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
-Pearl Bailey
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"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
-Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson]
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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
-James Baldwin
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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
-James Baldwin
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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
-John Barrymore
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together—the lover with the loved, the one who hates with the hated. Both passions are tested by separation.
-John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, ch. 2, Pantheon (1984)
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All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient moments together. Now I cannot live apart from you...Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
-Sarah Bernhardt
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True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
-Jim Bishop
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"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."
-Smiley Blanton
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Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.
-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus), De Consolatione Philosophiae
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody."
-Alain de Botton, "On Love"
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The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
-Alain de Botton, On Love
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"The best proof of love is trust."
-Joyce Brothers
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
-Rita Mae Brown
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need; by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath.
Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
[Elizabeth wrote this poem to Robert; Robert’s reply: “Come grow old with me; the best is yet to be.”]
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand Who saith,
“A whole I planned, Youth shows but half;
trust God: see all, nor be afraid!''
http://www.bartleby.com/42/678.html
-Robert Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra
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"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
-Leo Buscaglia
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"Son, I'd say you were going at it the wrong end first," said the Judge, turning up his coat-collar. "How could you care about one girl? Have you ever cared about one leaf?"
Riley, listening to the wildcat with an itchy hunter's look, snatched at the leaves blowing about us like midnight butterflies; alive, fluttering as though to escape and fly, one stayed trapped between his fingers. The Judge, too: he caught a leaf; and it was worth more in his hand than in Riley's. Pressing it mildly against his cheek, he distantly said, "We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed--begin with these, learn a little what it is to love. First, a leaf, a fall of rain, then someone to receive what a leaf has taught you, what a fall of rain has ripened. No easy process, understand; it could take a lifetime, it has mine, and still I've never mastered it--I only know how true it is: that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life."
-Truman Capote, The Glass Harp
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
-Truman Capote
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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
-Lydia Maria Child
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"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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"All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frame
All are but ministers of Love
And feed His sacred flame."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton
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"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
-Joseph Conrad
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Another kind of love and compassion is not based on something appearing beautiful or nice, but based on the fact that the other person, just like oneself, wants happiness and does not want suffering and indeed has every right to be happy and to overcome suffering. On such a basis, we feel a sense of responsibility, a sense of closeness toward that being. That is true compassion. This is because the compassion is based on reason, notjust on emotional feeling. As a consequence, it does not matter what the other's attitude is, whether negative, or positive. What matters is that it is a human being, a sentient being that has the experience of pain and pleasure. There is no reason not to feel compassion so long as it is a sentient being.
-Dalai Lama, "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness"
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"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
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"Love builds bridges where there are none."
-R. H. Delaney
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Who dares deny that this is true:
The whole is more than all its parts?
A whole love than divided love,
Or than half love from fifty hearts?
Yet who dare either this deny:
The part is more than is the whole?
That treasures halved with one dear love
Are more than double to the soul?
-Arthur Dillon
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
-Benjamin Disraeli
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"Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks."
-John Donne, "The Bait"
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"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
-Henry Drummond
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
-Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, "Four Quartets"
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"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."
-Albert Ellis
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How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Love" Essays: First Series, 1841
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It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time…The youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden’s eye…The mysterious communication that is established across a house between two entire strangers, by this means moves all the springs of wonder.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, (on meeting Lydia Jackson, who was to be his second wife)
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"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
-Nan Fairbrother
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Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
-John Fletcher, Queen of Corinth
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"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
-Erich Fromm
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"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
-Erich Fromm
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Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult.
-Sir David Paradine Frost
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"Where there is love there is life."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
-Judy Garland
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
-Allen Ginsberg
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We are shaped and fashioned by what [whom] we love.
-Johann von Goethe
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There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning -- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.
-Lorraine Hansberry, from the play, Raisin in the Sun
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Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.
-David R. Hawkins
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"There is only one terminal dignity -- love."
-Helen Hayes
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.
-Katharine Hepburn
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"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
-Victor Hugo
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"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo
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"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."
-Javan
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“Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.”
“Another reason we hide is to protect ourselves from change. . . Still another reason we don't disclose ourselves is that we were never taught how. . . Personal ambitions and economic pressures also give us powerful reasons for concealing what we really are. . . All of us hide behind the iron curtain of our public selves. . . Men hide what prevents them from seeming strong and masculine. . .”
“Disclosure is so important (because) without it we really cannot know ourselves. Or to put it another way, we learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. For example, if I never express my sorrow, my love, my joy, I'll smother those feelings in myself until I almost forget they were once part of me.”
-Sidney Jourard, The Transparent Self, 1971
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Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.
-Sidney Jourard, "Redbook", October, 1971
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I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.
-John Keats
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The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.
-Søren Kierkegaard
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"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
-J. Krishnamurti
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao-Tzu
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Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw
Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon.
And I do lift my aching arms to you,
And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,
And I do weep for very pain of you,
And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, A Love Song
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Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
-Ursula K. LeGuin
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When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest at all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
-C.S. Lewis
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Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.
-C.S. Lewis
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Ah, how skilful grows the hand
That obeyeth Love's command!
It is the heart, and not the brain,
That to the highest doth attain,
And he who followeth Love's behest
Far excelleth all the rest!
published in "The Seaside and the Fireside"
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from "The Building of the Ship"
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"Do all things with love."
-Og Mandino
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"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished."
-Og Mandino
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
-Thomas Mann
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He drew a circle that shut me out--
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.
-Edwin Markham, Outwitted
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"This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love".
-Gerald Massey
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It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.
-The Matrix - Revolutions, character Merovingian
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I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
-W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up [1938], Chapter XXI
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Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when they coincide...
That is beauty.
That is love.
-Peter McWilliams, (quoted by marital therapist- David Schnarch in Constructing the Sexual Crucible)
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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
-George Moore
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Theresa
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
-Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII
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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 witherings, of tarnishings.
-Anais Nin, Winter of Artifice, 1945
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"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
-Anais Nin
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In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns. [. . .] And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing.
-Tim O'Brien, The Nuclear Age (p. 303), 1985
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"Ama me fideliter!
Fidem meam noto:
De corde totaliter
Et ex mente tota,
Sum presentialiter
Absens in remota."
Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away."
-Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, "Omnia Sol Temperat"
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Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that was very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk.
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
-Dorothy Parker, A Very Short Song
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Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.
He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.
Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love. What we Love, we’ll Hear; what we Love, we’ll Trust; and what we Love, we’ll serve, ay, and suffer for too. If you love me (says our Blessed Redeemer) keep my Commandments. Why? Why then he’ll Love us; then we shall be his Friends; then he’ll send us the Comforter; then whatsoever we ask, we shall receive; and then where he is we shall be also, and that for ever. Behold the Fruits of Love; the Power, Vertue, Benefit and Beauty of Love! Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.
-William Penn, Fruits of Solitude
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"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
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"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."
-Sidney Poitier
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"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
-François de La Rochefoucauld
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
-François de La Rochefoucauld
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Suddenly the ground seemed to give way beneath me,
and I found myself in quite another region.
Within five minutes I went through
some such reflections as the following:
the loneliness of the human soul is unendurable;
nothing can penetrate it except the highest intensity
of the sort of love that religious teachers have preached;
whatever does not spring from this motive is harmful,
or at best useless;
it follows that war is wrong,
that a public school education is abominable,
that the use of force is to be deprecated,
and that in human relations one should penetrate
to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
http://san.beck.org/GPJ24-Russell,Muste.html
-Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1872-1914, p. 234.
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
-Bertrand Russell
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Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
-Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence.
-George Santayana
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"I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, please ask God to love him, too."
-Gale Sayers, Words spoken in May 1970, as he accepted the NFL's Most Courageous Player award.
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Love therefore—the most beautiful phenomenon in the soul-filled creation, the omnipotent magnet in the spiritual world, the source of devotion and of the most sublime virtue—Love is only the reflection of this single original power, an attraction of the excellent, grounded upon an instantaneous exchange of the personality, a confusion of the beings.
When I hate, so take I something from myself; when I love, so become I so much the richer, by what I love. Forgiveness is the recovery of an alienated property - hatred of man a prolonged suicide; egoism the highest poverty of a created being.
-Friedrich von Schiller, Philosophical Letters, Vol. III pp 210-211
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
-Erich Segal
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"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
-Erich Segal
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O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love...
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet...
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II
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Woe is me!
The winged words on which my soul would pierce
Into the heights of love's rare universe,
Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--
I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion (1821)
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
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"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
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"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
-Jonathan Swift
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Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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"Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is."
-Virgil
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In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The great eternal Government above
Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth.
Give thy love freely; do not count the cost;
So beautiful a thing was never lost
In the long run.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, In The Long Run
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In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
-Elijah Wood
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Books about Love
