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- The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.
- Monica Fairview, Darcy Cousins, 2010
- When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.
- Monica Fairview, Darcy Cousins, 2010
- Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
- She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
- The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), O Magazine, February 2004
- Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
- Rabbi Julius Gordon
- For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
- Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05
- You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 01-19-10
- You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 02-23-10
- I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
- I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003
- You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
- Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
- Rita Rudner
- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
- Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
- Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.
- Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
- We don't always get to choose what we love.
- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
- One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
- Toni Morrison (1931 - ), Beloved
- Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
- Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
- Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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