"Forgiveness is the final form of love." - Reinhold Niebuhr
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate." - Thornton Wilder
"We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence." - Jean Toomer
"Whoso loves believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable." - Marguerite Duras
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker
"I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life." - D. H. Lawrence
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe
"The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it, from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love, because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life." - Thomas Merton
"I have loved to the point of madness / That which is called madness / That which to me / Is the only sensible way to love." - Francoise Sagan
"We learn only from those we love." - Johann Von Eckermann
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: 1) To return love for hate; 2) To include the excluded; and 3) To say 'I was wrong.'" - Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
"What will survive of us is love." - Philip Larkin
"And in the end, the love you take
Is equal to the love you make."
- John Lennon and Paul McCartney
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