Quotes about love

"Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall."

Chambless, David on love
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"True love is the parent of humility."

Channing, William Ellery on love
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"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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"Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on love   

"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 blind."

Chaucer, Geoffrey on love
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"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it."

Chevalier, Maurice on love
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"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."

Child, Lydia M. on love
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"Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George"

Childs, Williams 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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"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   

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

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

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   

"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."

Connolly, Cyril on love
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"Love is a tyrant sparing none."

Corneille, Pierre on love   

"Love is a friendship set to music."

Cossman, E. Joseph on love
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"Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb."

Covey, Stephen R. on love
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"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Crawford, Joan on love
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"Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts."

Crawshaw, Richard on love   

"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."

Crisp, Quentin on love
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"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Croft, Roy on love
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"Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice."

Crowley, Aleister on love
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"Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on love
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"The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet."

Dane, Frank on love
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"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."

Davies, Robertson 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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"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."

Delp, Alexis on love
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"Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way."

Desai, Yogi on love
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"Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses."

Dewar, Thomas Robert on love   

"I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal."

Diana, Princess of Wales on love   

"My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them."

Diana, Princess of Wales on love   

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

Diana, Princess of Wales on love
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"I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."

Diana, Princess of Wales on love
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