Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
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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Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness .