"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

Sarton, May on love   

"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence."

Seabury, David on love
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"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Segal, Erich on love
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"Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding."

Seneca on love
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"If you wish to be loved; Love!"

Seneca on love
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"Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin 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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"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on love
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"A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom."

Richter, Jean Paul on love   

"Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out."

Richardson, Nick on love
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"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."

Reik, Theodor on love
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"Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give."

Oxenham, John on love
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"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

Mother Teresa on love
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"Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."

Mooneyham, Stan 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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"Love bears it out even to the edge of doom."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on love
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"Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late"

Unknown, Source on love
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"Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse."

Unknown, Source on love
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"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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"Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love"

Turner, Rev. Dale on love
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"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

Tracy, Brian on love
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"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

Thurber, James on love
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"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame."

Thoreau, Henry David 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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"True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes."

Theresa of Lisieux, St. on love
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"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished."

Tebbets, Frank on love
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"We live in the world when we love it."

Tagore, Rabindranath on love
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"After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world."

Suttner, Bertha Von on love
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"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."

Stendhal, Henri B. on love
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love."

Sophocles 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 cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May 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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"'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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"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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"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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