Love Quotes

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

- Pearl S. Buck

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

- Amy Bloom

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

- Lisa Hoffman

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Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.

- Jeanne Moreau

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

- Mark Twain

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Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

- Erich Fromm

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell -- he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

- Chaucer

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Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud.
It is the Morning and the Evening Star.
It shines upon the cradle of the babe,
and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.
It is the mother of Art,
inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home,
kindler of every fire on every hearth.
It was the first to dream of immortality.
It fills the world with melody,
for Music is the voice of Love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter,
that changes worthless things to joy,
and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.
It is the perfume of the wondrous flower -- the heart
and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon,
we are less than beasts;
but with it, earth is heaven
and we are gods.

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

- Carter Heyward

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. [New York Journal-American, April 5, 1963]

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

The Quaker Reader, 1962

- Jessamyn West

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

- Jane Austen

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Adam, in Adam's Diary

- Mark Twain

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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

- Albert Einstein

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

from The Scarlet Letter

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

- Pearl S. Buck

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

- Molly Haskell

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To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe