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Quotes about love
Greeting cards keep the first flush and leave out the rest. Older writers were more interested in the rest: long marriages, misjudged ones, love for a friend or for a difficult child. Middlemarch is a very long study of who marries whom, and how wrong it can go.
Shakespeare's lovers are often ridiculous, and he knows it. Gibran's advice in The Prophet, read at many a wedding, tells the couple to leave some space between them.
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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
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Brothers, have no fear of men’s sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of …
If a man is mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him his error.
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If a man is mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him his error. But if thou art not able, blame thyself, or blame not even thyself.
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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… a short time before. He liked saying “Bathsheba” as a private enjoyment instead of whistling; turned over his taste to black hair, though he had sworn by brown ever since he was a boy, isolated himself till the space he filled in the public eye was contemptibly small. Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants. Oak began now to see light in this direction, and said to himself, “I’ll make her my wife, or upon my soul I …
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
The pleasure of love is in loving, we are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
Love lightens the burden and cheers the way.
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The same thing is true of the loving father, though his burden in the nature of things is rarely as heavy as the mother's. But he is often virtually a slave for half a lifetime or more for those he loves, and if he is a real man he does not complain. Love lightens the burden and cheers the way. Where the heart is, there the burden is light.
To be in love is to surpass one’s self.
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… you could come to the theatre to-night. He is going to be there, and I am to play Juliet. Oh! how I shall play it! Fancy, Jim, to be in love and play Juliet! To have him sitting there! To play for his delight! I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them. To be in love is to surpass one’s self. Poor dreadful Mr. Isaacs will be shouting ‘genius’ to his loafers at the bar. He has preached me as a dogma; to-night he will announce me as a revelation. I feel it. And it is all his, his only, Prince Charming, my wonderful lover, my god of graces. But I am poor beside him. …
Accustom thyself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, be in the speaker's mind.
Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.
Love does take us and transfigure and torture us.
Love is a true renovator.
We must not consider how great presents are, but in what spirit they are given.
Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
If you love, well, then, love!
Love, and you shall be loved.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you?
All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.
Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.
Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.
Love should run out to meet love with open arms.
Love never faileth, and life never faileth, so long as there is love.
Love is the great thing in the world.
Love maintains perpetual summer in the soul and shuts out winter's chill.
Nothing is a hardship to Love, and nothing is hard.
The first phase of married love will pass, it is true, but then there will come a love that is better still.
Love is an ardent forgetfulness of all the rest.
Love of men cannot be bought by cash-payment; and without love, men cannot endure to be together.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
Our life without love is like coke and ashes.
Be strong, live happy, and love!
Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
We embrace not only the absent, but those who have been, and those who are not yet.
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
Popular sayings
Widely repeated lines with no name attached, because nobody can honestly put one on them.
Love conquers all.
It's never too late to say sorry.
Family is everything.
Forgive and forget.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
What you focus on grows.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Live, laugh, love.
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