"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."

Cholmondeley, Mary on love
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."

Ciardi, John on love
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"You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories."

Clark, Melanie on love
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"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love   

"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

Confucius on love
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"To love a thing means wanting it to live."

Confucius on love
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"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me."

Congreve, William on love   

"Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on love
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"True love is the parent of humility."

Channing, William Ellery on love
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"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."

Cervantes, Miguel De on love
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"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out."

Bowen, Elizabeth on love
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"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."

Breton, Andre on love
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"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Brookner, Anita on love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."

Brown, Rita Mae on love
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"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together."

Bruyere, Jean De La on love
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"We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully."

Buber, Martin on love   

"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."

Buber, Martin on love
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on love
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"Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge."

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De on love
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"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."

Butler, Samuel on love
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"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

Carmichael, Amy on love
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"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

Cervantes, Miguel De on love
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"Love is a tyrant sparing none."

Corneille, Pierre on love