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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LOVE 4
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French (1929-, American author, critic)
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis)
One is very crazy when in love.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis)
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis)
Love, while you are able to love.
A. Frieligrath
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm (1900-1980, American psychologist)
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980, American psychologist)
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980, American psychologist)
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost (1875-1963, American poet)
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Margaret Witter Fuller (1810-1850, American writer, lecturer)
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Love has more force than a besieging army.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
John Gay (1688-1732, British playwright, poet)
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
The love of mother and child is beautiful; but there is a higher law than that -- the love of one another.
Charlotte P. Gillman (1860-1935, American feminist and writer)
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni (1943-, American poet)
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect `cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.
Whoopi Goldberg (1949-, American actress, comedian)
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi J. Gordon
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658, Spanish philosopher, writer)
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you."
Billy Graham (1918-, American evangelist)
Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?
Judith Guest
Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.
Robert K. Greenleaf
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
Matt Groening (1954-, American writer, cartoonist, animator, producer, screenwriter)
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening (1954-, American writer, cartoonist, animator, producer, screenwriter)
Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-, American author)
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there -- you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-, American author)
Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted
Arlo Guthrie (1947-, American artist)
Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.
David B. Haight
A song is not a song until you sing it. Love in your heart is not put there to stay. Love is not love until you give it way.
Oscar Hammerstein (1846-1919, German theatrical impresario)
Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
Novalis Hardenberg (1772-1801, German poet, novelist)
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928, British novelist, poet)
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
John Harrigan
True love is the surest foundation for peace.
Corra May Harris (1869-1935, American author)
Love that is not expressed in loving action does not really exist.
Sydney J. Harris
If your life has been enriched by love, once or more than once ...the memory of it ... never leaves you.
Olivia De Havilland
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Goldie Hawn (1945-, American actress)
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Louise L. Hay (American metaphysical teacher, lecturer, author) Author's website: www.hayhouse.com
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay (American metaphysical teacher, lecturer, author) Author's website: www.hayhouse.com
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay (American metaphysical teacher, lecturer, author) Author's website: www.hayhouse.com
The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes (1900-1993, American actress)
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -- but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?
Shirley Hazzard (1931-, Australian-born American author)
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein (1907-1988, American science fiction writer)
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it, it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961, American writer)
Only the really plain people know about love -- the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, American actress, writer)
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder (1744-1803, German critic and poet)
It is only important to love the world ...to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962, German-born Swiss novelist, poet)
Love is stronger than violence.
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962, German-born Swiss novelist, poet)
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.
Mangnu Hirschfield
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
Mangnu Hirschfield
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
Mangnu Hirschfield
Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.
Lisa Hoffman
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
Doug Horton
Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
Doug Horton
Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
Doug Horton
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
Doug Horton
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
Love is the reduction of the universe to a single being.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist) Source: Les Miserables
Love is like the sea, it's a moving thing; but still it takes its shape from the shore it meets and it's different with every shore.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960, American novelist)
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960, American novelist)
Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.
Bengali Hymn
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906, Norwegian dramatist)
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899, American orator, lawyer)
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899, American orator, lawyer)
Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899, American orator, lawyer)
Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!
Kathy Ireland (1963-, American model)
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving (1783-1859, American author)
There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Gerald G. Jampolsky (1925-, American psychiatrist, lecturer, author)
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927, British humorous writer, novelist, playwright)
Love, you are eternal like springtime.
Juan Ramon Jiminez
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong (1942-, American author)
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