LOVE QUOTES XLIII

quotations about love

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos

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Love does not rust.

GERMAN PROVERB


Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Heart of the Matter

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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair


How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair


There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

HENRY VAN DYKE

"Love and Light"


Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because he loves.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Love must be the same in all worlds.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Love is not wanting the other to become a clone of ourselves. 'Other' offers resistance, pushing us to find what is self. Love is actively embracing our equality and pushing each other to realise our full potential and make our full contribution to the world.

HOWARD JONES

"What is love -- can it really be defined and explained?", The Guardian, February 12, 2016


You're not sick, you're just in love.

IRVING BERLIN

"You're Just in Love"

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Loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.

JAMES REDFIELD

The Celestine Prophecy


Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice

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Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body

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I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Sexing the Cherry


True love turns words and feelings into actions.

JOEL OSTEEN

Become a Better You


Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Rival Ladies


Love is my religion--I could die for that.

JOHN KEATS

letter to Fanny Brawne, Oct. 13, 1819

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A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes, and hearts, and ears; bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude; and this is love.

JOHN LYLY

Gallathea and Midas


Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

LEONID ANDREYEV

He Who Gets Slapped

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You are worthy of love simply because you exist. Because you inhale and you exhale. You are worthy of love because you stumbled across this blog and you wanted to be encouraged, inspired and feel less alone. You are worthy of love because you have an open, beating, wildly beautiful, ever-hopeful heart. You are worthy of love because you are imperfect. Because you are built on strength and courage, curiosity and compassion. You are worthy of love because you give it and you intend to receive it. You are worthy of love because you look for the good when all you can see is the bad. You are worthy of love because you try. Because you dream. Because you are.

LINDSAY TIGAR

"You Are Worthy of Love", Confessions of a Love Addict, October 26, 2015

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