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• What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Love Is, God Love

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.155, New World Library

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• “God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.”

  Djuna Barnes

  Honesty, Liars, Men

  "Nightwood".

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• What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Kindness, Mean, Compassion

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• O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Sweet, Laughter

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Names

  Natasha Trethewey (2012). “Thrall: Poems”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Philosophical

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, Open Road Media

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• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Weekly World News" Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 33, April 25, 2005.

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  Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

  Joan Crawford

  Love, Heartbreak, Dream

  Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1954.

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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• If someone asks,
  But what is Love?
  Answer,
  Dissolving the will.

  Rumi

  Answers, Dissolving, Asks

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• Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!
  What a task
  to ask
  of anything, or anyone,
  yet it is ours,
  and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.

  Mary Oliver

  Years, Lovely, Tasks

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.34, Beacon Press

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• What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

  B. F. Skinner

  Names, Vices, Use

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.282, Hackett Publishing

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• What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Acceptance

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