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LOVE: Love is a battle in which two free subjects each try to get hold of the other’s freedom while at the same time trying to free themselves from the hold of the other. (John-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)
LOVE: Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (Unknown Source)
LOVE: Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. (Unknown Source)
LOVE: There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. (Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, French author of memoirs and aphorisms, 1613-1680Patriotism: The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for. (Laurence J. Peter, Canadian educator and author, as well as the creator of the Peter Principle, 1919-1990Kindness: Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer, 1709-1784Art: Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. (William Golding, British novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, 1911-1993)
LOVE: Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away. (Dorothy Parker, U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)
LOVE: Love is trembling happiness. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
LOVE: Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
LOVE: Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
LOVE: If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)
LOVE: Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone---but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. (Bette Davis, U.S. actress of film, television, and theater, 1908-1989)
LOVE: Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. (Thornton Wilder, U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)
LOVE: Power without love cannot be just; similarly, love that doesn't take power seriously can never achieve justice. (Paul Tillich, German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian, 1886-1965)
LOVE: There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
LOVE: Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)
LOVE: The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. (Thomas Merton, U.S. theologian, social activist and student of comparative religion, 1915-1968)
LOVE: Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)
LOVE: Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. (Dorothy Parker, U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)
LOVE: When we live to love, we love to live. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)
LOVE: Love isn't love 'til you give it away. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)
LOVE: Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. (Sam Levenson, U.S. humorist, television host, and journalist, 1911-1980)
LOVE: Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end. (Unknown source)
LOVE: The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. (Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)