Love Life Quotes - Page 17

• To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Blessed, Suffering

  "War and Peace". Novel by Leo Tolstoy. Book 14, Chapter 15, 1867.

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• There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
  Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Heaven, Path Of Love

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1121, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Stars, Moon

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.643, NYU Press

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• How can anyone be against love?

  Malcolm X

  Life, Against Love

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Love is like fire.
  Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love.

  Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

  Life, Love Is, Fire

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• O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move
  The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.

  Thomas Gray

  Love, Life, Moving

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.27

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• Love is a lock that linketh noble minds,
  Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

  Robert Greene

  Life, Spring, Love Is

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele”, p.319

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• No, not Jove
  Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

  Robert Herrick

  Life, Wise, And Love

  Robert Herrick, Lord Thomas Maitland Dundrennan (1823). “Hesperides (continued) His noble numbers: or, his pious pieces”, p.137

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• O that it might remain eternally green,
  The beautiful time of youthful love.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Beautiful, Green

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• In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
  In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
  In halls, in gay attire is seen;
  In hamlets, dances on the green.
  Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
  And men below, and saints above;
  For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Life, Peace

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)

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• If you wish to be loved, love.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Life, Latin

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• They love indeed who quake to say they love.

  Philip Sidney

  Life, Quake

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 54

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• Thy fatal shafts unerring move;
  I bow before thine altar, Love!

  Tobias Smollett

  Life, Moving, Bows

  Tobias Smollett (1824). “The adventures of Roderick Random”, p.298

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• He loves not well whose love is bold!
  I would not have thee come too nigh.
  The sun's gold would not seem pure gold
  Unless the sun were in the sky:
  To take him thence and chain him near
  Would make his beauty disappear.
  William Winter, Love's Queen.
  The unconquerable pang of despised love.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Queens, Winter

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• He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
  What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts"
  "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Beautiful, Wise

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• Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

  William Penn

  Men, Religion, Beloved

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Respect, Men

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• Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

  Johnny Depp

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Make the driving force in your life love.

  Mehmet Oz

  Yoga, Driving, Force

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• Love has no thought of self!
  Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold
  The loathsome prostitution of a hand
  Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things
  To bless the thing it loves!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Heart, Sacrifice

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• To me, love, spirituality and life are all the same thing. To me they're all about honoring the circle, and they're just different ways of defining the same understanding. Our society as a whole, because we have placed our love for money above our love for life, has devalued the sacred and devalued love.

  Julia Hill

  Love, God, Circles

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• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Trust, Joy, Finding Love

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• It is important to learn that love is your life, love is spirituality.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery, of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the Turkish Inquisition.

  Leyla Zana

  Passion, People, Giving

  Leyla Zana (1999). “Writings from Prison”

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• Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Happiness, This Too Shall Pass

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

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