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



Bette Davis



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

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

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

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

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

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That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.

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

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Love is friendship on fire.

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I need you like a heart needs a beat.

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

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

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

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You make me want to be a better man.

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

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

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You call it madness, but I call it love.

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We can only learn to love by loving.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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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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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.

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

James Thurber
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We love because it’s the only true adventure.

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

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

Ben Hecht
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A life lived in love will never be dull.

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde
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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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

Hermann Hesse
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara De Angelis
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Love is shown more in deeds than in words.

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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

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All you need is love.

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

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Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

Charles Eisenstein
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True love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach
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I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.

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