"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"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."

Lennon, John on love
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"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on love
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on love
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"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."

Strong, Anna on love
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"Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels. And when love comes, there is no question of responsibility. You do things because you enjoy doing them for the person you love. You are not obliging the person, you are not even wanting anything in return, not even gratitude. On the contrary, you are grateful that the person has allowed you to do something for him. It was your joy, sheer joy. Love knows nothing of responsibility. It does many things, it is very creative; it shares all that it has, but it is not a responsibility, remember. Responsibility is an ugly word in comparison to love. Love is natural. Responsibility is created by the cunning priests, politicians who want to dominate you in the name of God, in the name of the nation, in the name of family, in the name of religion -- any fiction will do. But they don't talk about love. On the contrary, they are all against love, because love is unable to be controlled by them. A man of love acts out of his own heart, not according to any moral code. A man of love will not join the army because it is his responsibility to fight for his nation. A man of love will say there are no nations, and there is no question of any fight."

Osho on love
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"Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends."

Delille, Jacques on family
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"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."

Lardner, Ring on family
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"When a match has equal partners then I fear not."

Aeschylus on marriage
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"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

Heilbrun, Carolyn on marriage
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"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

McLaughlin, Mignon on marriage
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"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on marriage
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"Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless."

Lawrence, D. H. on love
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"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?"

Hazzard, Shirley on love
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"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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"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."

Byron, Lord 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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"Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on love
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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."

Davis, Bette on love
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"You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

Drummond, Henry on love
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"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold."

Fuller, Margaret on love
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"Where there is love there is life."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"We love because it's the only true adventure."

Giovanni, Nikki on love
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"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on love
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"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!"

Signoret, Simone on marriage