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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LOVE 6
A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
Andrew Matthews (1948-, American artist, cartoonist, author)
People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.
Andrew Matthews (1948-, American artist, cartoonist, author)
Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965, British novelist, playwright)
Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893, French writer)
The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930, Russian poet, dramatist)
Love is all you need.
Paul McCartney (1942-, British popstar, composer, songwriter, member of the "Beatles")
It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
George McDonald
I am a big believer in the "mirror test." All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.
John McKay (1923-, American football coach)
Love is everybody's business.
Roger MCkuen
I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978, American anthropologist)
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)
Love the beautiful, seek out the true. Wish for the good, and the best do.
Moses MendeLssohn
Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger (1893-1990, American psychiatrist)
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Karl A. Menninger (1893-1990, American psychiatrist)
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.
Karl A. Menninger (1893-1990, American psychiatrist)
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950, American poet)
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950, American poet)
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950, American poet)
The soul can split the sky in two, and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950, American poet)
These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
John Milton (1608-1674, British poet)
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
John N. Mitchell (1913-1988, American lawyer, cabinet member)
The measure of a man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Ashley Montagu (1905-1999, British anthropologist)
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a degout given by satiety.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762, British society figure, letter writer)
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore (1887-1972, American poet)
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch (1919-, British novelist, philosopher)
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch (1919-, British novelist, philosopher)
We can only know love by loving.
Iris Murdoch (1919-, British novelist, philosopher)
Without love, all the merits and power of man are nothing.
Margaret of Navarre
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
Gaylord Nelson
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
Anais Nin (1914-1977, French-born American novelist, dancer)
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
Anais Nin (1914-1977, French-born American novelist, dancer)
In all people there are two sets of feelings: One is fear, the other is love. If there is fear, then we shrink as a person. But love, wow! That can move mountains!
Jorgen Roed
Love is a friendship caught on fire.
Northern Exposure
Every kind of love is love, but self-love is supreme among them.
Nigerian Proverb (Sayings of Nigerian origin)
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
Ann Oakley (1944-, British sociologist, author)
In love there are two things -- bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates (1938-, American author)
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: "Is there someone new?"
Edna O'Brien
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell (1903-1950, British author, "Animal Farm")
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ouida (1838-1908, British writer)
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby
Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.
John Oxenham
Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin.
Gwyneth Paltrow (1972-, American actress)
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967, American humorous writer)
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950, Italian poet, novelist, translator)
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950, Italian poet, novelist, translator)
Speak low if you speak love.
Don Pedro
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Peguy (1873-1914, French poet, philosopher)
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374, Italian poet, humanist)
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)
Learn what you are and be such.
Pindar (BC 518?-18438, Greek poet)
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell (1905-2000, British novelist)
Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.
John Powell
Love expands.
Hugh Prather
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
Jacques Prevert (1900-1977, French poet)
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
I adore him… I have never been so happy. I have real love.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that; I want to do that.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721, British diplomat, poet)
In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)
An elephant never gets tired of supporting its tusks.
African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)
A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.
American Indian Proverb (Sayings of American Indian origin)
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
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