LOVE QUOTES XLIII

quotations about love

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

EMMA GOLDMAN

"The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation"

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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!

LEWIS CARROLL

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

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Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

ROBERT FULGHUM

True Love

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You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

FRED ROGERS

attributed, Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor


You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one ... if he's the right one.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

ROMAN PROVERB


Love is blind but sees afar.

ITALIAN PROVERB


Love Bertrand, love his dog.

FRENCH PROVERB


Love grows with obstacles.

GERMAN PROVERB


You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

STEPHEN LEACOCK

How to Write


I really thought that love would save us all.

JOHN LENNON

attributed, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 1980

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Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

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All is fair in love and war.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

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Love is not a flow chart.

PAUL COSGROVE

"Love is not a flow chart", December 22, 2015


Love is a process -- not a static condition. It's a commitment to do the work and come back into relationship with each other. To move through whatever gets in the way of your love for one another.

SHANA PARKER

"3 Myths About Unconditional Love That Can Ruin Your Marriage", Good Men Project, December 25, 2015


Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.'

MARY BAKER EDDY

"Love that finds solutions", Christian Science Monitor, April 6, 2016


Love prepares us for martyrdom.

PHILIP KOSLOSKI

"Love is What Prepares Us For Every Form of Martyrdom", National Catholic Register, March 22, 2016


"God is love" became inverted into "love is God", so that it is now the West's undeclared religion--and perhaps its only generally accepted religion.

SIMON MAY

Love: A History


Is it the beloved who evokes love, or the lover who has love to give?

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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The girlish talk of love and lovers is henceforth stale and commonplace. The cheap jokes of the comic papers on love and its poor counterfeit, flirtation, are a blasphemy. Love-romances and love-poems have lost their charm, so inadequate are they to tell love's true story. She is herself the romance; she is herself the poem.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Home Builder

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