Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.
Love Quotes
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Two of the best-known love quotes are flagged here as misattributed. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” is credited to Confucius. The oldest English version anyone has found is from a 1982 alumni magazine, where the man quoted was himself passing it along from an unnamed source. “God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy” is credited to Benjamin Franklin. It looks like a garbled version of what he wrote about wine in 1779, in a letter to André Morellet.
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If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.
If one does not possess what one loves, one should love what one has.
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
Of all the girls that are so smart,
There's none like pretty Sally.
Eyes that obstruct the road can be removed
but what happens when hearts block the passage?
I’ve climbed up here
holding the hilt of time’s sword
after driving it
into my tender heart.
I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.
Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.