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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He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
Love and admiration are drowned in these astronomical figures.
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed.
Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies?
Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live.