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Love Quotes
[
{
"author":"Albert Einstein",
"quote":"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."
},
{
"author":"Alexander Smith",
"quote":"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
},
{
"author":"Alfred Lord Tennyson",
"quote":"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
},
{
"author":"Andre Breton",
"quote":"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself."
},
{
"author":"Ann Landers",
"quote":"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."
},
{
"author":"Antoine de Saint-Exupery",
"quote":"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
},
{
"author":"Aphra Behn",
"quote":"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."
},
{
"author":"Aristotle",
"quote":"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
},
{
"author":"Arthur Conan Doyle",
"quote":"We can't command our love, but we can our actions."
},
{
"author":"Audrey Hepburn",
"quote":"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
},
{
"author":"Audrey Hepburn",
"quote":"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
},
{
"author":"Barbara de Angelis",
"quote":"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
},
{
"author":"Bertrand Russell",
"quote":"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
},
{
"author":"Blaise Pascal",
"quote":"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."
},
{
"author":"Bruce Lee",
"quote":"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
},
{
"author":"Buddha",
"quote":"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."
},
{
"author":"C. S. Lewis",
"quote":"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
},
{
"author":"Carl Sagan",
"quote":"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
},
{
"author":"Charles Morgan",
"quote":"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder."
},
{
"author":"Dalai Lama",
"quote":"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
},
{
"author":"David Viscott",
"quote":"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
},
{
"author":"Dwight L. Moody",
"quote":"Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy."
},
{
"author":"Edgar Allan Poe",
"quote":"We loved with a love that was more than love."
},
{
"author":"Edwin Louis Cole",
"quote":"The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving."
},
{
"author":"Elizabeth Barrett Browning",
"quote":"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only."
},
{
"author":"Erich Fromm",
"quote":"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
},
{
"author":"Erich Fromm",
"quote":"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
},
{
"author":"Eva Gabor",
"quote":"Love is a game that two can play and both win."
},
{
"author":"Ferdinand Foch",
"quote":"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
},
{
"author":"Francis of Assisi",
"quote":"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."
},
{
"author":"Francois de La Rochefoucauld",
"quote":"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
},
{
"author":"Franklin P. Jones",
"quote":"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
},
{
"author":"Friedrich Nietzsche",
"quote":"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
},
{
"author":"George Eliot",
"quote":"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
},
{
"author":"George Herbert",
"quote":"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread."
},
{
"author":"Gilbert K. Chesterton",
"quote":"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
},
{
"author":"H. Jackson Brown, Jr.",
"quote":"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."
},
{
"author":"H. Jackson Brown, Jr.",
"quote":"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
},
{
"author":"H. L. Mencken",
"quote":"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
},
{
"author":"Hans Urs von Balthasar",
"quote":"The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love."
},
{
"author":"Harry Emerson Fosdick",
"quote":"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it."
},
{
"author":"Helen Keller",
"quote":"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
},
{
"author":"Helen Keller",
"quote":"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
},
{
"author":"Honore de Balzac",
"quote":"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
},
{
"author":"Honore de Balzac",
"quote":"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
},
{
"author":"Ingrid Bergman",
"quote":"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
},
{
"author":"Iris Murdoch",
"quote":"We can only learn to love by loving."
},
{
"author":"James A. Baldwin",
"quote":"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
},
{
"author":"Jean de la Bruyere",
"quote":"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."
},
{
"author":"Jennifer Aniston",
"quote":"I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special."
},
{
"author":"Jesus Christ",
"quote":"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."
},
{
"author":"Jim Morrison",
"quote":"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."
},
{
"author":"John Galsworthy",
"quote":"Love has no age, no limit; and no death."
},
{
"author":"John Keats",
"quote":"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
},
{
"author":"John Lennon",
"quote":"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
},
{
"author":"Karl A. Menninger",
"quote":"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
},
{
"author":"Khalil Gibran",
"quote":"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
},
{
"author":"Kristin Chenoweth",
"quote":"If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy."
},
{
"author":"Lao Tzu",
"quote":"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
},
{
"author":"Lao Tzu",
"quote":"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
},
{
"author":"Lao Tzu",
"quote":"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."
},
{
"author":"Leigh Hunt",
"quote":"Stolen kisses are always sweetest."
},
{
"author":"Leo Buscaglia",
"quote":"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."
},
{
"author":"Leo Buscaglia",
"quote":"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
},
{
"author":"Lord Byron",
"quote":"Who loves, raves."
},
{
"author":"Loretta Young",
"quote":"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you."
},
{
"author":"Lucille Ball",
"quote":"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
},
{
"author":"Lucius Annaeus Seneca",
"quote":"If you wished to be loved, love."
},
{
"author":"Mahatma Gandhi",
"quote":"Where there is love there is life."
},
{
"author":"Martin Luther King, Jr.",
"quote":"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
},
{
"author":"Martin Luther King, Jr.",
"quote":"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
},
{
"author":"Martin Luther King, Jr.",
"quote":"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
},
{
"author":"Martin Luther King, Jr.",
"quote":"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
},
{
"author":"Max Muller",
"quote":"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
},
{
"author":"Maya Angelou",
"quote":"In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free."
},
{
"author":"Miguel de Unamuno",
"quote":"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."
},
{
"author":"Mother Teresa",
"quote":"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
},
{
"author":"Mother Teresa",
"quote":"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
},
{
"author":"Mother Teresa",
"quote":"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
},
{
"author":"Mother Teresa",
"quote":"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
},
{
"author":"Og Mandino",
"quote":"Do all things with love."
},
{
"author":"Orson Welles",
"quote":"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
},
{
"author":"Oscar Wilde",
"quote":"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
},
{
"author":"Oscar Wilde",
"quote":"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
},
{
"author":"Paul Tillich",
"quote":"The first duty of love is to listen."
},
{
"author":"Princess Diana",
"quote":"Only do what your heart tells you."
},
{
"author":"Rabindranath Tagore",
"quote":"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation."
},
{
"author":"Rainer Maria Rilke",
"quote":"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
},
{
"author":"Ray Stannard Baker",
"quote":"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
},
{
"author":"Robert A. Heinlein",
"quote":"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
},
{
"author":"Robert Frost",
"quote":"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
},
{
"author":"Robert Fulghum",
"quote":"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
},
{
"author":"Rumi",
"quote":"We are born of love; Love is our mother."
},
{
"author":"Soren Kierkegaard",
"quote":"Don't forget to love yourself."
},
{
"author":"Theophile Gautier",
"quote":"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."
},
{
"author":"Thomas Fuller",
"quote":"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
},
{
"author":"Torquato Tasso",
"quote":"Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing."
},
{
"author":"Torquato Tasso",
"quote":"True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does."
},
{
"author":"Victor Hugo",
"quote":"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
},
{
"author":"William Shakespeare",
"quote":"The course of true love never did run smooth."
},
{
"author":"William Shakespeare",
"quote":"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
}
]
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