"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

Unknown, Source on love
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"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

Voltaire on love
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"There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved."

Sand, George on love
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"The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance."

Hwang, Brian on ignorance
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"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

Burke, Edmund on patriotism
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"Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."

Mooneyham, Stan on love
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"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."

Oakley, Ann on love
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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"To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on love
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"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard on giving
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"Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love."

Virgil on love
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"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

Brown, Les on love
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"It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving."

Braunstein, Richard on giving
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"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."

Maupassant, Guy de on love
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"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things."

Pilgrim, Peace on love
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"Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die."

Southey, Robert on life
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"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."

Wilde, Oscar on infidelity
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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on friends and friendship
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."

Finod De, J. on marriage
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"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."

Dyer, Wayne on love
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"Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age."

Moreau, Jeanne on age and aging
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"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."

Hoffer, Eric on neighbors
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"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

Stael, Germaine De on love
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"If you wish to be loved; Love!"

Seneca on love
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."

Rossetti, Christina on love
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on love
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on love
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious."

Traherne, Thomas on love
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."

Spencer, Herbert on love
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"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."

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus on love
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