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"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."



Marge Piercy



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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

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Love is not a volunteer thing.

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Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

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In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.

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You call it madness, but I call it love.

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Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

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I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.

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A life lived in love will never be dull.

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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

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That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.

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We love because it’s the only true adventure.

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The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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We can only learn to love by loving.

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Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Ben Hecht
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All you need is love.

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If I know what love is, it is because of you.

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Love is friendship on fire.

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There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

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Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis
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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare
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Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving
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Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Paulo Coelho
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

John Green
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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Tom Wolfe
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I need you like a heart needs a beat.

Unknown
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha
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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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True love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach
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Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Marge Piercy
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I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.

Angelita Lim
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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn
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Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

Tom Freston
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

James Baldwin
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Francis
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This has been my life; I found it worth living.

Bertrand Russell
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara De Angelis
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.

Jane Austen
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Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

Nicholas Sparks
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You make me want to be a better man.

Melvin Udall
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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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