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Love Quotes


"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."


"And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut."


"Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it."


"What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over the mysterious forces of love? Which sword could shatter the impenetrable armour of desire?"


"I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits."


"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."



"We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?"


"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises."


"Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way."


"I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love."


"If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never happens.One becomes afraid of love, because love opens the inner emptiness.Love is not an effort. If love is an effort, it is not love.It is the same case with the ultimate experience, it happens when you do not make an effort. Then you can simply float with the river to the Ocean."


"Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance."


"As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us."


"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."



"Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness."
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"In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs."



"We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up."



"I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand."


"When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms."


"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."


"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired."



"If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me."


"Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isn't just the loss of one life, it's the loss of two lives - one who found another world, perhaps...and one who is left behind."


"There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides."
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