"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
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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I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart,
I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.
Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.
Only tragedy allows the release of love and grief never normally seen…
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
May I get melted on your embrace, and meld into your wholeness.
Hatred has never stopped hatred. Only love stops hate. This is the eternal law.
Who loves, raves—'tis youth's frenzy—but the cure
Is bitterer still.
But is it what we love, or how we love,
That makes true good?
I loved him too as woman loves —
Reckless of sorrow, sin, or scorn.
Love's too precious to be lost,
A little grain shall not be spilt.