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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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
All the passions seek after whatever nourishes them. Fear loves the idea of danger.
The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter — it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
There are very few people who are not ashamed to be loved when they no longer do.
If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
It is impossible to fall back in love with what one has stopped being in love with.