True Love Quotes

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

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

  Keith Miller

  Love, Running, Soul

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• True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.

  Cara Lockwood

  Believe, Love You, Love Is

  Cara Lockwood (2004). “I Do (but I Don't)”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

  Hugh Walpole

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Sad, Kings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4677, Library of Alexandria

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Friendship, Positivity, If You Love Someone

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.20, Penguin

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• None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Wicked, Realizing

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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• Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Heart, Unity

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “On Love & Happiness”, p.25, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Together, Looks

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• True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

  Ellen G. White

  Wise, Strong, Real

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• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  George Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

  Henry Drummond

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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  Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Funny, Women

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• ‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

  Joshua Harris

  Kissing, Love Is, Self

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.20, Multnomah

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• Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

  George Jean Nathan

  Love, Anniversary, Disappointment

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• How far should a person go in the name of true love?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Names, Finding Love, Should

  "The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2007.

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• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Angel

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• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Sea

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• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Marriage, Hard Times

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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