Inspirational Quotes About Love
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“Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.
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J. E. Buckrose -
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“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than Death or Night;
To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change nor falter nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire and Victory.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822);
Poet
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“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.”
Truman Capote (1924-1984);
Novelist, Playwright, Story Writer
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“The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger — so it be done for love, and not for ostentation — do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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“I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.”
Norman Mailer (born 1923);
Novelist, Journalist
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“... to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.”
Sharon Olds (born 1942);
Poet
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“If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.”
Mitsugi Saotome (born 1937);
Aikido Instructor, Author
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“Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, as faithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness...”
Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829);
Philosopher
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“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Pericles -
Ancient Greek Politician
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“Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.”
Queen Elizabeth I (1553-1603);
Queen Of England (1558 1603)
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“From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.”
Unknown -
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“Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. ”
Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998);
Professor, Author
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“Trouble is part of your life — if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. ”
Dinah Shore (1916-1994);
Singer, Actress
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“I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love…it is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004);
Psychiatrist, Author
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“I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.”
Mother Teresa (1910-1997);
Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 11/26/10
“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
[from Don Juan DeMarco (1994)]”
Johnny Depp (born 1963);
Actor
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 04/29/11
“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out of bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”
Pedro Arrupe (1907-1991);
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/01/11
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. ”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791);
Composer
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 11/23/11
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ”
David Viscott (1938-1996);
American Psychiatrist, Author, Businessman, And Media Personality
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 04/20/12
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. ”
Barbara Johnson (1947-2009);
American Literary Critic And Translator
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