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"We must be our own before we can be another’s."



Ralph Waldo Emerson



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You make me want to be a better man.

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All you need is love.

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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Pablo Neruda
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That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.

Joan Baez
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Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

Tom Freston
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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

Bertrand Russell
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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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Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke
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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo
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Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.

Elaine Davis
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

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

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

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

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

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

Unknown
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Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones
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A life lived in love will never be dull.

Leo Buscaglia
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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

J.R.R. Tolkien
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The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.

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

Ben Hecht
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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

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

Buddha
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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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Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Judy Collins
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

André Breton
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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.

Sarah Dessen
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Love is friendship on fire.

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

Sophocles
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Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

Charles Eisenstein
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara De Angelis
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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 a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Ovid
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True love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach
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We love because it’s the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni
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You call it madness, but I call it love.

Don Byas
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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Rumi
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Love is not a volunteer thing.

Samuel Richardson
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.

Jane Austen
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Francis
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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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides
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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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