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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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Another day goes by
Still the children cry
Put a little love in your heart.
We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.
I made a decision that, rather than looking for Love, I would let Love be me. Let Love be my life.
Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.
Love is the effacement of the lover's attributes and the establishments of the Beloved's Essence.
Lovers do not reach the height of true love until one says to the other, "O Thou who art I."
Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
A woman despises a man for loving her, unless she happens to return his love.
Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.
God's love claims him whose heart is reduced to ashes for Him.