975 private quotes tagged love

“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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“Knowledge is love and light and vision.” — Helen Keller

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

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

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“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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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“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” — 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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“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.” — Plato

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“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.” — Dalai Lama

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

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“We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Love is not consolation. It is light.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.” — Sigmund Freud

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“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.” — H. L. Mencken

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