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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LOVE 3
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph E. Cossman (1918-2002, American businessman, author, lecturer)
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.
Pearl Craigie
Where you find no love, put love and you will find love.
John of the Crass
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford (1904-1977, American actress)
Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.
Richard Crawshaw
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
Quentin Crisp (1908-1999, British author)
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Roy Croft
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947, British occultist)
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
Fr. Jerome Cummings
The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.
Frank Dane
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies (1913-1995, Canadian novelist, journalist)
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis (1908-1989, American actress, producer)
It is always a feast where love is, and where love is, God is.
Dorothy Day (1897-1980, American religious leader)
We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.
Dorothy Day (1897-1980, American religious leader)
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
Alexis Delp
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
Yogi Desai
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Thomas Robert Dewar
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American poet)
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
Joan Didion (1934-, American essayist)
Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.
Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992, German-born American film actor)
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Ani DiFranco
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt Disney (1901-1966, American artist, film producer)
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney (1901-1966, American artist, film producer)
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne (1572-1632, British metaphysical poet)
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne (1572-1632, British metaphysical poet)
Love was as subtly caught as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.
John Donne (1572-1632, British metaphysical poet)
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne (1572-1632, British metaphysical poet)
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren (1894-1972, American poet, critic)
Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881, Russian novelist)
Love is not getting but giving.
Marie Dressler (1869-1934, Canadian stage and film actor)
Love exalts as much as glory does.
Juliette Drouet
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Henry Drummond (1786-1860, British banker, politician, religious leader)
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond (1786-1860, British banker, politician, religious leader)
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond (1786-1860, British banker, politician, religious leader)
Love is love's reward.
John Dryden (1631-1700, British poet, dramatist, critic)
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden (1631-1700, British poet, dramatist, critic)
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden (1631-1700, British poet, dramatist, critic)
Love is the only effective counter to death.
Maureen Duffy
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Maureen Duffy
From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.
Patty Duke
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love -- to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
Isadora Duncan (1878-1927, American dancer)
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, French author, filmmaker)
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, French author, filmmaker)
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -- somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -- somewhere these, too, come together.
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, French author, filmmaker)
It's unthinkable not to love -- you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990, British author)
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990, British author)
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.
Andrea Dworkin (1946-, American feminist critic)
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910, American founder of the Christian Science Church)
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and the temporal.
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910, American founder of the Christian Science Church)
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
Zona Gale (American dramatist)
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
But is it what we love, or how we love, that makes true good?
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
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 kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
'Tis what I love determines how I love.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965, American-born British poet, critic)
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
Ben Elton (1959-, British author, performer)
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
Louise Erdrich
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Marie E. Eschenbach
We always come back to our first love.
Etienne
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.
Irwin Federman
You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.
Brian Ferry
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.
Henry Fielding (1707-1754, British novelist, dramatist)
My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?
W. C. Fields (1879-1946, American actor)
Until you know that life is interesting, and find it so, you haven't found your soul.
Geoffrey F. Fisher (1887-1972, British archbishop of Canterbury)
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940, American writer) Author's website: www.fitzgeraldsociety.org
I don't want to live: I want to love first and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948, American writer)
Nobody has ever measured how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948, American writer)
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
Edward Flaherty
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
Janet Flanner
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880, French novelist)
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Peggy Fleming (1948-, American skater)
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -- it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
Edward M. Forster (1879-1970, British novelist, essayist)
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster (1962-, American actress, director, producer)
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox (1886-1951, Irish-born American Unity Minister, metaphysician)
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox (1886-1951, Irish-born American Unity Minister, metaphysician)
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France (1844-1924, French writer)
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken
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