Greatest Love Quotes

• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Heart, Personality

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• Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  "Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.

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• In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

  Janos Arany

  Love, Motivational, Positive

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Source" by James Wood, (p. 11), 1893.

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• The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Best Friend, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Oct 31, 2011

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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  In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Song: Golden Slumbers

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• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Life, Friendship

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  Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  George Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  "The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

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• I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Love Is, Men

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• Love is what you've been through with somebody.

  James Thurber

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Friendship, Anniversary

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• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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• Perfect love drives out fear

  Karen Kingsbury

  Bible, Perfect, Christian Love

  Karen Kingsbury (2008). “Between Sundays”, p.342, Zondervan

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

  Ann Landers

  Loyalty, Love Is, Mutual Benefit

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• 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.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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• A mighty pain to love it is,
  And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
  But, of all pains, the greatest pain
  Is to love, but love in vain.

  Abraham Cowley

  Love, Life, Pain

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1707). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed; and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies. With The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.55

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Life, Uplifting

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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• Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Opposites, Voice

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

  Luke the Evangelist

  Bible, Jesus, Hate

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• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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