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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
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Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Don't marry a man to reform him -
that's what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
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