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"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
"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."
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"
"Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}"
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
"The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."
"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart."
"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."
"It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love"
"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*"
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."
"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
Mark Twain
Literature
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love."
"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good," I said. "That's what I want too."
"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
"My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now."
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
"If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace."
"As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
Pythagoras
Mathematics
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"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change."