What Is Love Quotes - Page 5

• What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Powerful, Attraction

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics

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• What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

  Madame de Stael

  Decay, Ifs

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• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Hate, Patriotism

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

  Mary C. Ames

  Beauty, Powerful, Sight

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• How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed to remove your ignorance. But when you remove ignorance, you start with removing what is causing the ignorance, which is your belief system. So the teacher's job indeed is to first deconstruct your belief system. And then to give you inspiration so you'll go out to create a path to discover what is spirit, what is beauty, what is love, because these things nobody can teach you. So teaching really should be a demolition job.

  Ricky Ray

  Teacher, Teaching, Inspiration

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• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Weekly World News" Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 33, April 25, 2005.

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  Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

  Joan Crawford

  Love, Heartbreak, Dream

  Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1954.

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• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Philosophical

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, Open Road Media

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Life, Marriage

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

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• What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

  B. F. Skinner

  Names, Vices, Use

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.282, Hackett Publishing

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• What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Acceptance

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• Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!
  What a task
  to ask
  of anything, or anyone,
  yet it is ours,
  and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.

  Mary Oliver

  Years, Lovely, Tasks

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.34, Beacon Press

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• If someone asks,
  But what is Love?
  Answer,
  Dissolving the will.

  Rumi

  Answers, Dissolving, Asks

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