975 private quotes tagged love

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm

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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.” — Robert Frost

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“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.” — Frank Zappa

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“Who, being loved, is poor?” — Oscar Wilde

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“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Everything is clearer when you're in love.” — John Lennon

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“If you wished to be loved, love.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.” — Khalil Gibran

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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” — Alan Watts

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“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.” — Bob Hope

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“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.” — Bertrand Russell

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“We pardon to the extent that we love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Love is the river of life in the world.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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