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Love Quotes

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”

“O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou.”

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“So long as I can breathe or I can see, so long lives your love which gives life to me.”

“When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.”

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”

“Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give.”

“Love from one side hurts, but love from two sides heals.”

“Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books; but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

“Love goes to love like schoolboys from their books. But love from love, towards school with heavy looks.”

“Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind.”

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

“A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.”

“So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life.”

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”

“Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.”

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

by William Shakespeare

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True love never dies for it is lust that
fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime
but lust just pushes away… Alicia Barnhart. [Read More…]

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When the one man loves the one woman and the one
woman loves the one man, the very angels leave
heaven and come sit in that house and sing for joy… Brahma. [Read More…]

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  1. This is my commandment, that ye love one another.
    ~ Jesus, In John 15:12
  2. 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
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Love is the emblem of eternity

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
~ Germaine De Stael
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.
~ Henry [...]

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Love is the emblem of eternity

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time:
effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end… Germaine De Stael.
Two things you should NEVER say to the one you love:
“I love you, but…” and “If you loved me,
you would…” Should you really qualify love with conditions?… Unknown.
One forgives to the [...]

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There is no disguise which can hide love

There is no disguise which can hide love
for long where it exists, or simulate it where
it does not… Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
When we are in love we often doubt that
which we most believe… Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract.
You are today where your thoughts have [...]

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The life and love we create

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
~ Josh Billings
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears [...]

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Love built on beauty

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
~ John Donne
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the
imagination and bottling the common sense.
~ Helen Rowland

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Give love and unconditional acceptance

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
You gotta learn to laugh, it’s the way to true love.
~ Michael (John Travolta) Michael
The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else.
~ Unknown
To love is to admire with the [...]

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