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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LOVE 2
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton (1989-1966, French surrealist)
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton (1989-1966, French surrealist)
When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.
Fanny Brice (1891-1951, American entertainer)
When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
Robert Bridges (1844-1930, British poet)
All the little emptiness of love!
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915, British poet)
Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915, British poet)
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner (1938-, British novelist, art historian)
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner (1938-, British novelist, art historian)
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner (1938-, British novelist, art historian)
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927-, American psychologist, television and radio personality)
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927-, American psychologist, television and radio personality)
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
Charles R. Brown
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charlie Brown (Peanuts comic strip character)
Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
David Brown
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.
Les Brown (1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,)
Love without attachment is light.
Norman O. Brown (1913-2002, American philosopher)
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
Rita Mae Brown (1944-, American writer)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861, British poet)
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861, British poet)
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Browning (1812-1889, British poet)
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning (1812-1889, British poet)
We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
Martin Buber (1878-1965, Austrian-born Israeli theologian, philosopher)
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
Martin Buber (1878-1965, Austrian-born Israeli theologian, philosopher)
Love alone could waken love.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973, American novelist)
On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973, American novelist)
Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873, British novelist, poet)
From self alone expect applause.
Marian L. Burton
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton (1576-1640, British clergyman, scholar)
A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
A loving person recognizes needs.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
Love acquires meaning only as it's shared.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
Barbara Bush (1925-, American First Lady, wife of George H. Bush)
Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
Comte De Bussy-Rabutin
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Who loves, raves.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
From the beginning of life to its end, love is the only emotion which matters.
June Callwood
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Italo Calvino (1923-1985, Cuban writer, essayist, journalist)
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Italo Calvino (1923-1985, Cuban writer, essayist, journalist)
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
You really have to look inside and find your inner strength, and say, "I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself."
Mariah Carey (1970-, American musician, singer, songwriter)
Give your gift of love to the community of birth defects.
Donna F. Carlingbouse
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael (1867-1951, Irish missionary)
What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
Galius Valerius Catullus (BC 87-54, Roman lyric poet)
Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961, French author)
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
'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 (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741-1794, French writer, journalist, playwright)
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971, French couturier)
True love is the parent of humility.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842, American Unitarian minister, author)
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881-1955, French Christian mystic, author)
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881-1955, French Christian mystic, author)
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881-1955, French Christian mystic, author)
Love is blind.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400, British poet)
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
Malcolm De Chazal (1902-1981, French writer)
Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904, Russian playwright, short story writer)
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972, French singer, actor)
I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable... I can't help it, it's my personality.
Jay Chiat
I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable... I can't help it, it's my personality.
Jay Chiat
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person.You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.
Julia Child (1912-2004, American gourmet cook, author, and television personality)
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George
Williams Childs
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925, British author)
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi (1916-1986, American teacher, poet, writer)
That suit is best that best suits me.
John Clark
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.
Melanie Clark
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first or late, A work too great for fame.
Mary Clemmer
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-, American First Lady, senator, wife of Bill Clinton)
I love, and the world is mine!
Florence Earle Coates
Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, French author)
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
Love of kindness without a love of learning will be obscured by foolishness.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
Love of persistence without a love of learning will be obscured by stubbornness.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
Love of straightforwardness without a love of learning will be obscured by misdirected judgment.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
Love of wisdom without a love of learning will be obscured by excessive speculation.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
To love a thing means wanting it to live.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve (1670-1729, British dramatist)
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974, British critic)
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974, British critic)
Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
Mob Connor
Love was not given the human heart for careless dealing; Its spark was lit that man might know Divine revealing.
Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684, French dramatist)
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