LOVE QUOTES LV

quotations about love

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Love fattens on smooth words.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

Me: Stories of My Life

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Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

The Wit and Wisdom of E. Bulwer-Lytton


I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.

PABLO NERUDA

"Get Used to Seeing the Shadow Behind Me"

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

ROMAN PROVERB


Expressing love is one of the most beautiful things of life -- for husbands and wives, children and parents, etc. I know that people often claim they prefer to express love by doing things like mowing lawns or making a nice dinner or buying gifts, etc. (There is even a popular book that has you take a questionnaire to find out what your primary way of showing love is so that people will be able to detect when you are showing love, in case you never verbally express it.) To be honest, I don't like promoting the idea that some people are just programmed to express love in certain ways, and not in others. There! I said it. (Sorry if you're a big fan of the book!) I say we don't let a questionnaire or our previous habits and norms limit us. How about we ALL learn to express love -- verbally -- with words!

MARA KOFOED

"The Language of Love", Danny + Mara, December 12, 2012

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All love is lost but upon God alone.

WILLIAM DUNBAR

The Merle and the Nightingale

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A man is only as good as what he loves.

SAUL BELLOW

Seize the Day

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When you love someone, you don't have a choice.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Ashes

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True love turns words and feelings into actions.

JOEL OSTEEN

Become a Better You


Those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Roundabout Papers


One love drives out another.

SPANISH PROVERB


Oh, God, I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. I swim in the sky; I float; my body is full of flowers, flowers with fingers giving me acute, acute caresses, sparks, jewels, quivers of joy, dizziness, such dizziness. Music inside of one, drunkenness. Only closing the eyes and remembering, and the hunger, the hunger for more, more, the great hunger, the voracious hunger, and thirst.

ANAIS NIN

diary, May 30, 1934

Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica. Nin's most studied works are her diaries or journals, which detail her marriages to Hugh Parker Guiler and Rupert Pole, in addition to her numerous affairs, including those with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and writer Henry Miller.


No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Dust Tracks on a Road


Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"Optimism"


Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

S. M. STIRLING

The Sunrise Lands

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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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Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, Jan. 16, 1795

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