LOVE QUOTES XXX

quotations about love

Woman has been trained to stake her all upon love, to dream and plan and wait and focusu life's Multitudinousness upon love's little glamour. And the inquiry is as pertinent now as ever before to ask is such a policy of life propitious to woman's happiness or evolution? Or, if one may not be allowed to take such a pagan view of woman's destiny, to ask is it essential to the happiness or evolution of man?

MARIAN COX

"The Fools of Love", The Dry Rot of Society and Other Essays


If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

LYNDA BARRY

attributed, The Surrendered Single


Love covers a multitude of sins.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women

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When I think of what true love means to us, I also think of the mundane days of bill paying, chore completing, and grocery shopping. Even though we hate being adults, being adults together somehow seems tolerable and perhaps even survivable.

LINDSAY DETWILER

"True Love Is Built In The Simple Moments", Huffington Post, October 22, 2017


True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

attributed, Love: Quotes and Passages from the Heart


Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

KRISTIN ARMSTRONG

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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When we fall in love, we hope--both egotistically and altruistically--that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

JULIAN BARNES

Nothing to Be Frightened Of


Love made you vulnerable; if you gave your heart to another, they could leave you or die.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

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Call us what you will, we are made such by love.

JOHN DONNE

The Canonization

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If you have a history of bad relationships, what feels natural to you is probably NOT the best thing for you. This is counter-intuitive, but the things that feel good or exciting to you may actually be red flags that you're with someone who is fulfilling an old pattern of yours. Ironically, the kind of love that you deserve is going to feel uncomfortable at first, because it will be something NEW and off your neural map, so to speak. It may not be as exciting, and you'll likely not even be as initially attracted to the person who you'll ultimately create a strong relationship with, but true love is a marathon, not a sprint.

JENEV CADDELL

"The Part You're Missing About Manifesting True Love", Huffington Post, December 30, 2015


As your lover describes you, so you are.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Sexing the Cherry

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There is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

IVAN KLIMA

Love and Garbage

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Who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides.

ITALIAN PROVERB


It is easy to halve the potato where there's love.

IRISH PROVERB

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That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

HERBERT SPENCER

The Study of Sociology

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

HELEN ROWLAND

Inter-Collegiate World

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It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.

HARRIET LERNER

"The Top 10 Reasons Women Re-Marry The Wrong Guys", Huffington Post, July 7, 2012

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Love begins at home.

GERMAN PROVERB


Swift doth young Love flee,
And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Modern Love

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills: to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not true that love makes things easy: it makes us choose what is difficult.

GEORGE ELIOT

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