LOVE QUOTES XX

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The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.

NATHANIEL BRANDEN

The Psychology of Romantic Love

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Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

DAN SIMMONS

The Fall of Hyperion

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Let your love flow out on all living things.

WILLIAM STYRON

Sophie's Choice

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Man ever is and always shall be blessed; for he loves, and love is an onward current that never ebbs; and borne upon this current humanity will at last make its far, fair haven; and meanwhile, as it voyages, it will find the course not too rough, but glorified by frequent halcyon days and calm nights set with stars.

FRANK CUMMINS LOCKWOOD

Robert Browning


Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number
Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only.
Only to love and to be loved again.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Children of the Lord's Supper"

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Love is ... telling someone when they have crap between their teeth.

EVA WISEMAN

"Love is ... let me count the ways you are special", The Guardian, February 14, 2016


Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life.
In just a glance, down here on magic street,
Loves a fool's dance
And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Girls in Their Summer Clothes", Magic

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It is most clearly in matters of love that people show the quality of their mental images and how they handle the problem of trying to make reality and images correspond. Some men, for example, have such rigid images of the ideal woman that they must marry that they will have no compromise. They never meet anyone who fits perfectly into the pattern they have in mind, so either they never marry or else they marry again and again, hoping that eventually they will find a woman of low melting point who will pour herself into the long prepared mould.

ERIC BERNE

The Mind in Action

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If a thing loves, it is infinite.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Swedenborg


Well they say that love is in the air, but never is it clear,
How to pull it close and make it stay
Butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away
And I'm left to carry on and wonder why

SHERYL CROW

"Always on Your Side"


If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Obsidian Butterfly


Love is an alliance of friendship and of lust; if the former predominate, it is a passion exalted and refined, but if the latter, gross and sensual.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Charles Caleb Colton (1777 - 1832) was an English cleric and writer. His books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day.


All love is sweet,
Given or returned. Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Like the wide heaven, the all-sustaining air,
It makes the reptile equal to the God;
They who inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am now; but those who feel it most
Are happier still.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound


The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.

NORA ROBERTS

The Calhouns


To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

Autobiography of Values

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The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man; for as to the stage, love is even matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury.

JOHN LOCKE

"Of Love", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

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You can fall in love with life, you can fall in love with yourself and with those around you. Tell the people important to you that you love them, and most importantly treat them like you do. Don't take love for granted because it's what binds the world together.

SONYA MATEJKO

"This Is What I Know About The World At 24", Huffington Post, April 5, 2016


Each act of love is a demonstration of the powerful right use of the heart, the example of our oneness of loving our brother as ourself. It is everything that transforms the present moment into love's miracle. It is you and me in resonance vibrating ever forward with love.

MELANIE LUTZ

"Love is Meant to be put Into Right Use Full Ness", BeliefNet, November 2, 2017


A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

THOMAS HARDY

The Return of the Native

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