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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

“And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.”

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”

“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.”

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”