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"At first you fall in love in every... FREDRIK BACKMAN Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the ge... LEO F. BUSCAGLIA It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING. After all Love is a Ver... ROBERT JUNIOR The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a lov... HENRY MILLER I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love... SOMALY MAM Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening. SUE FITZMAURICE My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ... RUTH RENDELL Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the l... THOMAS HARDY Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. G. K. CHESTERTON Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. G.K. CHESTERTON Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Love in its truest form must hurt the most, for without hurt it is not love DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL People don't love each other at our age —they please each other, that's all. Later on when you're ... ALBERT CAMUS To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they g... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It i... OSHO People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, an... MITCH ALBOM This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t... LEONARD COHEN Love doesn't need to last a lifetime for it to be real. You can't judge the quality of a love by the... KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND One thing about her," I said, "that often gets lost in all the scripts is that she can love uncondit... REBECCA LEE Who says you can't fall in love on your own?
Whenever you listen to music, close your eyes...
And th... MAICHEE SUMMER Love is a weakness which converts even the strongest minds as its slave and makes them sing its tune... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when... ALBERT CAMUS When you feel that a relationship is not same as it was and it is lacking the old charm, love, and m... NIKITA DUDANI Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relation... OSHO Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer... J. KRISHNAMURTI Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI some people are in love with falling in love! it's evol! MARIO ENRIQUES ZAPATA Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it's something rare and beautiful when peo... E.A. BUCCHIANERI Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marve... CRISS JAMI Love and self-denial for the object loved go hand-in-hand. If I profess to love a certain person, an... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and i... GERMAINE GREER no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love ha... D.H. LAWRENCE Many of us suffer because we think that if people don’t really love us, then we will have to live ... STORMIE OMARTIAN What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as sus... UMBERTO ECO The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in... VICTOR HUGO Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitmen... JOSEPH CAMPBELL If falling in love was easy,
We'd all be in love.
Love isn't easy though,
Thats why its hard to be i... PAULIE D. STABLINI God is present by Love alone. By Love alone He is great and glorious. By Love alone He liveth and fe... THOMAS TRAHERNE He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai... ANTHONY POWELL No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all... HAROLD PINTER Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitmen... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b... BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the d... ROBIN SACREDFIRE For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as... VIKTOR E. FRANKL Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found l... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ When we remove all emotion, all judgement, and all expectation there is only love left. Love is foun... L.J. VANIER Love is a moment that last forever TERRENCE TAYLOR
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