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Carl William Brown
Teach only love for that is what you are.
Anonymous
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Alfred Adler
On this earth if there were no love there would certainly be no hatred and perhaps stupidity would not reign undisturbed.
Carl William Brown
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott
Miserable is that love that needs words to express itself.
Carl William Brown
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
Herman Hesse
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Eros and Thanatos, two inseparable themes, deeply romantic and fascinating. Love of common sense and hatred of vanity; life instinct towards equity and death drive towards stupidity.
Carl William Brown
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
St. Thomas Aquinas
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Louis Aragon
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.
Aristotle
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Aristotle
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
W. H. Auden
We must love one another or die.
W. H. Auden
The best way to forget one’s self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Red Auerbach
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
Love makes labor light. Love alone gives value to all things.
St. Teresa of Avila
Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Francis Bacon
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
Pearl Bailey
Love is a precious commodity, and like all precious goods, you buy it at a high price, but if you want to resell it, as usual, you no longer take a penny.
Carl William Brown
Love is to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
Honore De Balzac
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore De Balzac
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Roland Barthes
Naturally, love is the most distant possibility.
Georges Bataille
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
Charles Baudelaire
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Charles Baudelaire
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Hermann Hesse
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
Charles Baudelaire
I no longer know if I wish to drown myself in love, wodka or the sea.
Franz Kafka
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
William Blake
For a long time I have been looking for love and have not found it, so I said to myself that perhaps it was better to look for stupidity, there I would have no problems, in fact it is a very common element in nature.
Carl William Brown
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The only victory over love is flight.
Napoleon Bonaparte
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton
Love without attachment is light.
Norman O. Brown
When the girl I loved left me, I randomly went to a cemetery in a hilltop village, and there I buried my love. Every now and then I return and bring him some flowers.
Carl William Brown
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Browning
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.
Buddha
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha
The desire for possession, the love of power, rivalry and vanity; here are the four basic components of stupidity.
Carl William Brown
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton
A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
Leo Buscaglia
A loving person recognizes needs.
Leo Buscaglia
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Leo Buscaglia
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia
Love acquires meaning only as it’s shared.
Leo Buscaglia
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.
Leo Buscaglia
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Leo Buscaglia
When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force.
Leo Buscaglia
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron
Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Lord Byron
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so — or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
Lord Byron
Who loves, raves.
Lord Byron
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Italo Calvino
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel De Cervantes
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
Galius Valerius Catullus
Love, Arthur, is a poodle’s chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
One who has not only the four S’s, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example… Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
Miguel De Cervantes
‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Miguel De Cervantes
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
Love is blind.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Confucius
Love of kindness without a love of learning will be obscured by foolishness.
Confucius
Love of persistence without a love of learning will be obscured by stubbornness.
Confucius
Art is nothing but the profound sublimation of a supreme love for the universe; and this is why life is the highest form for the artist.
Carl William Brown
Love of straightforwardness without a love of learning will be obscured by misdirected judgment.
Confucius
Love of wisdom without a love of learning will be obscured by excessive speculation.
Confucius
To love a thing means wanting it to live.
Confucius
If there’s delight in love, ‘Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
Pierre Corneille
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
Aleister Crowley
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.
Marlene Dietrich
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt Disney
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
Love was as subtly caught as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
John Donne
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne
Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love is love’s reward.
John Dryden
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead – somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man – somewhere these, too, come together.
Marguerite Duras
It’s afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn’t necessarily prove that you loved him.
Marguerite Duras
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Marguerite Duras
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
Albert Einstein
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
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.
George Eliot
But is it what we love, or how we love, that makes true good?
George Eliot
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
George Eliot
‘Tis what I love determines how I love.
George Eliot
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
T. S. Eliot
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking.
Gustave Flaubert
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Peggy Fleming
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard — it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
Edward M. Forster
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud
One is very crazy when in love.
Sigmund Freud
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
Sigmund Freud
Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”
Erich Fromm
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love has more force than a besieging army.
Mahatma Gandhi
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they’ve won us.
John Gay
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Kahlil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran
The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Kahlil Gibran
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
Thomas Hardy
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
William Hazlitt
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it, it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.
Ernest Hemingway
Love is stronger than violence.
Hermann Hesse
It is only important to love the world … to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
Hermann Hesse
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love is the reduction of the universe to a single being.
Victor Hugo
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes – and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
Henrik Ibsen
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love is the only bow of life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love is the only bow on life’s dark cloud.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
Jerome K. Jerome
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
Samuel Johnson
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.
James Joyce
Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of a giver.
Thomas a Kempis
How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
Thomas a Kempis
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
Thomas a Kempis
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength…. It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
Thomas a Kempis
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
Thomas a Kempis
Love makes everything that is heavy light.
Thomas a Kempis
Whoever loves much, does much.
Thomas a Kempis
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Kibran
Be that self which one truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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