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Quotes About Love

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
~ Maxim Gorky
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
~ Maximilian Schell
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
What was love if it wasn't their own dauntless spirits pushing them toward their heart's desire?
~ Unknown
Oh, the days dwindle downTo a precious few…And these few precious daysI'll spend with you.
~ Maxwell Anderson
To live without love is impossible, and so the loveless man or woman seeks an ersatz passion, like extreme hate or cruelty with which love is inextricably woven as a treacherous swamp is part of a cosmic scheme that includes the pastures of Paradise.
~ Maxwell Bodenheim
If we are to believe Schopenhauer, women are incapable of romantic love and merely use man's love hunger as bait to fish babies out of the treacherous sea of matrimony. Of course Schopenhauer, who threw a female servant down a flight of stairs, and was intimate with numerous women he hated philosophically, is no unbiased witness to woman's unfathomable treachery.
~ Maxwell Bodenheim
God created man "a little lower than the angels" and "gave him dominion"; that God created man in his own image. If we really believe in an all-wise, all-powerful, all-loving Creator, then we are in a position to draw some logical conclusions about that which he has created—man. In the first place such an all-wise and all powerful Creator would not turn out inferior products, any more than a master painter would paint inferior canvases.
~ Maxwell Maltz
It is not the child who is taught about love but the child who has experienced love that grows into a healthy, happy, well-adjusted adult.
~ Maxwell Maltz
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~ Unknown
Her sweet bearing and fresh beauty Have wounded without sword or lance... —William Dunbar "Beauty and the Prisoner
~ Unknown
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
~ May Sarton
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
~ May Sarton
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
~ May Sarton
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
~ May Sarton
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?
~ May Sarton
Love came bearing love A chalice of light We bathed in love and drank it Then our flesh Seemed like the leaves Enameled bright forever.
~ May Swenson
The first time is always the hardest...getting your heartbroken. The first time–it's always coming from outer space. You never see it coming, but it will be easier next time.
~ Unknown
If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
~ Maya Angelou
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
~ Maya Angelou
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
~ Maya Angelou
Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.
~ Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
~ Maya Angelou
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
~ Maya Angelou