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Love Quotes

"Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else."

Beverly Sills, American Musician

Love, Spiritual

"When your heart is dancing with love, you are with God, and that is your love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Heart, Spirit, Divine

"There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

Love, Music, Building

"I'm a writer and this is what I love to do."

Gloria Estefan, American Musician

"Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source."

Brian Celio, American Novelist

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved."

Eden Ahbez, American Musician

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Love, Peace, Mother

"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."

John Adams, American President

Love, Admiration, Birds, Children

"Sin pierced the very heart of God. God felt every piercing nail and spear thrust. God felt the burning sun. God felt the mocking derision and the body blows."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Love, Very, Felt, Emotion

"I never can love you deep enough or long enough to satisfy me."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Satisfaction, Endless, Depth

"What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere."

Arthur Schwartz, American Composer

"It takes but a moment to fall in love, it takes a lifetime to forget it."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Time, Memory

"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."

Mortimer Adler, American Philosopher

Love, Men, Women, Effort

"I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper."

Eli Wallach, American Actor

"Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Enemy, Compassion, Power

"But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one."

Lita Ford, American Musician

"Love is a longing to belong, to be beloved."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Belonging, Connection

"Never lose temper or get angry at a person who deserves your love. Remember everyone is craving for and deserves your love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Anger, Self-control, Compassion

"Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man."

George Jean Nathan, American Editor

Love, Emotion, Man, Woman

"My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward."

Kenny Loggins, American Musician

Love, Power, Trust, Life

"I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!"

Jeanette MacDonald, American Actress

Love, Career, Man, Right

"The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time."

A. P. Herbert, English Statesman

Love, Matrimony

"Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most."

Michael Storm, American Actor

"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Love, Heart, Will

"Love is the only highway to happiness."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Highway, Happiness, Path

"Turn your pride into love in order to fill your life with joy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Pride, Joy, Life

"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean."

H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist

Love, Men, Books, Ocean, Old

"The only power that I want to use is the power of love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Power, Desire, Peace

"I'm a Rangers fan and I love the club but this will be a difficult game."

Graham Roberts, English Actor

"But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off."

Eriq La Salle, American Actor

Love, People, Advice, Direction

"Love and kindness is the source of courage."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Kindness, Courage, Change

"Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Love, People, Charity, Justice

"I must let go of my need for the world to love me."

Kenny Loggins, American Musician

"You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you."

Clay Aiken, American Musician

"My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love."

Billy Crystal, American Comedian

Love, Want, Will

"My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!"

Lee Ryan, British Musician

Love, Conversation, Pretty

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Love, Force, Man

"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

Love, Quality, People, Fear

"I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theatre, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me."

Eric Stoltz, American Actor

Love, Fact, Living, Man

"I do love cricket - it's so very English."

Sarah Bernhardt, French Actress

Love, Cricket, English

"If you want to see magic, love someone and see the magical transformation."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Magic, Transformation

"I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives."

Corbin Bernsen, American Actor

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

Peter Ustinov, English Actor

Love, Forgiveness, Habit, Act

"Jesus knows the intentions of our hearts and what we do in secret."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Love, Emotion, Knows, Jesus

"We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now."

Little Milton, American Musician

Love, Now, Play, Weekend

"I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world."

Paul Kane, English Writer

Love, Life, Comedy, Horror

"May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!"

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

"Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man."

Sherilyn Fenn, American Actress

"It is not that I am wise, it is because I see everything through nonjudgmental love and kindness."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Nonjudgmental, Kindness

"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."

Nelson Algren, American Novelist

Love, Man, Meaning, Risk

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