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Quotes About Love

One does not know what Lady Emily's advice was about falling in love but later Krishna expressed surprise when she told him she was jealous. He was becoming reconciled to being without her. '...it is the question of the sun & the moon—never can they be together so the less said about it the better', he wrote on April 18. In
~ Unknown
Know that love is truly timeless.
~ Mary M. Ricksen
Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?
~ Mary MacLane
When I think of the exquisite love and sympathy which might be between a mother and daughter, I feel myself defrauded of a beautiful thing rightfully mine, in a world where for me such things are pitiably few.
~ Mary MacLane
As I stand among the barren gulches in these days and look away at the slow-awakening hills of Montana, I hear the high, swelling, half tired, half-hopeful song of the world. As I listen I know that there are things, other than the Virtue and the Truth and the Love, that are not for me. There is beyond me, like these, the unbreaking, undying bond of human fellowship—a thing that is earth-old.
~ Mary MacLane
We are all created in the image of our Creator - Love itself.
~ Mary Manin Morrissey
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
~ Mary Manin Morrissey
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.
~ Mary Manin Morrissey
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion
~ Mary Manin Morrissey
There is an Angel called Charity who often would save our hearts a great deal of trouble if we would but let her in.
~ Mary Mapes Dodge
A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.
~ Unknown
No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.
~ Mary Matalin
Rodin was on the brink of a grand passion. But unlike Bernhardt's, his lover would become the greatest inspiration of his career. Her name was Camille Claudel, and if she was not pretty in a conventional way, she was as beautiful and alive as quicksilver. She was also an extraordinarily gifted sculptor in her own right.
~ Unknown
Paris is unquestionably a city for lovers, and it has been a privilege and a delight to discover so many of its wonders by his side.
~ Unknown
La dame aux camélias.
~ Unknown
What about justice," he asked, "and charity, and resignation, and courage, and everything which makes the human soul to live!" Religion, he continued, "is a spirit, a movement of the heart. You make of it a power, a society, an exterior force, something which struggles with other powers and other societies. To love God and one's fellow man, is it necessary to have so much materiality?"42
~ Unknown
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
~ Mary McCarthy
What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
~ Mary McCarthy
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex—that's quite a thought, isn't it?
~ Mary McCarthy
I understand what you are feeling," he said. "As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.
~ Mary McCarthy
Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it poisoned her. Before she knew him, not only had she been far, far happier but she had been nicer. Loving him was turning her into an awful person, a person she hated.
~ Mary McCarthy
You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.
~ Mary McCarthy
It came to her that he was going to leave without making love to her. This would mean they had made love for the last time this morning. But that did not count: this morning they did not know it was for the last time. When the door shut behind him, she still could not believe it. "It can't end like this," she said to herself over and over, drumming with her knuckles on her mouth to keep from screaming.
~ Mary McCarthy
He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned.
~ Mary McCarthy