975 private quotes tagged love

“Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.” — Erich Fromm

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“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.” — William Shakespeare

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“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” — Lao Tzu

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“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.” — Erich Fromm

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“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” — Maya Angelou

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“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.” — William Shakespeare

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“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.” — William Shakespeare

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“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost

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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.” — John Lennon

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“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.” — George Eliot

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“Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“To love another person is to see the face of God.” — Victor Hugo

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“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy

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