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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LOVE 5
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.
Curtis Judalet
Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist)
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller (1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer, amorist)
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of a giver.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)
How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)
Love makes everything that is heavy light.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)
Whoever loves much, does much.
Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)
Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.
Sally Kempton
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Kibran (1883-1931, Lebanese-born poet, philosopher, artist)
Be that self which one truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855, Danish philosopher, writer)
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964)
Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964)
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964)
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964)
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.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986, Indian theosophist)
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004, Swiss-born American psychiatrist)
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Love is to the soul of him who loves, as what the soul is to the body that it animates.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others -- all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Love, like fire, cannot continue to exist without continual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope or to fear.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Lovers do not wish to see the faults of their mistresses until their enchantment is at an end.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
Irving Layton (1912-, Canadian poet)
Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.
Christopher Leach (1912-, American poet)
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791, Austrian composer)
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
Madame Neckar
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593, British dramatist, poet)
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593, British dramatist, poet)
Now matter how many discoveries we make in the vast regions of self-love, undiscovered regions still remain there.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Self-love either increases or diminishes our measure of the good qualities of our friends, and does so in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge their virtue by way they act towards us.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
There are more people without self-love than there are without envy.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
True love is like a ghost: everyone speaks of it, but few have seen it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We can love nothing except what we base on our own selves, and when we prefer our friends to ourselves, we are just following our own taste or pleasure. Nevertheless, it is only by that preference that friendship can be true and perfect.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are; yet it is self-interest alone that produces the friendship. We do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do to them], but for what good we expect to receive from them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
When we are tired of loving, we are quite content if our mistress should become faithless, since it loosens us from our responsibility of fidelity.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
R. D. Laing (1927-1989, British psychiatrist)
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse De Lamartine (1790-1869, French poet, statesman, historian)
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law (American merchant)
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
William Law (American merchant)
I shall always be a priest of love.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -- quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz (1646-1716, German mathematician, philosopher)
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
George Meredith (1828-1909, British author)
The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller (1891-1980, American author)
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762, British society figure, letter writer)
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore (1852-1933, Irish writer)
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
Hannah Moore
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon (1940-1980, British rock musician)
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon (1940-1980, British rock musician)
What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing (1919-, British novelist)
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine (1934-, American spiritual teacher, author)
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951, American novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature)
Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001, American author)
Love is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001, American author)
Love is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001, American author)
There is no harvest for the heart alone; The seed of love must be eternally resown.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001, American author)
It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891, American poet, critic, editor)
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987, American diplomat, writer)
He who loves not, lives not.
Ramon Lull
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
Helen Merrell Lynd
Love is inseparable from knowledge.
St. Macarius of Egypt
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Shirley MacLaine (1934-, American actress)
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Anna Magnani (1918-1973, Egyptian-born Italian actor)
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon
Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
Sir Thomas Malory (1430-1471, British author)
Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
Sir Thomas Malory (1430-1471, British author)
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz (1944-, Canadian-born American plastic surgeon, author of "Psycho-Cybernetics")
Do all things with love.
Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker) Author's website: www.ogmandino.com
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker) Author's website: www.ogmandino.com
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
Wilma Pearl Mankiller
What can pay love but love?
Mary de la Riviere Manley
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923, New Zealand-born British author)
A caress is better than a career.
Elizabeth Marbury
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Michael Garrett Marino
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
Marcus Valerius Martial (40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist)
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Marcus Valerius Martial (40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist)
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876, British writer, social critic)
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