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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
-Pierre De Beaumarchais
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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
-Ernest Becker
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is the river of life in the world.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
-Aphra Behn
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Honor the ocean of love.
-George De Benneville
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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
-John Berger
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, ch. 2, Pantheon (1984)
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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
-St. Bernard
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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
-St. Bernard
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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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Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:2
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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... 1 John 3:14
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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. Philippians 1:9
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. Jesus, In John 15:12
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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:35
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Roman 13:9
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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. I John
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Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. I Corinthians
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Love is the fulfilling of the Law.
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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. The Song Of Solomon 2:5
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. Deuteronomy 10:19
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