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"Where love rules, there is no will
to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The
one is the shadow of the other."
~ Carl Jung
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"Love is that splendid triggering of
human vitality … the supreme activity which nature affords anyone
for going out of himself toward someone else."
~ José Ortega y Gasset
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"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a
stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made
new."
~ Ursula K Le Guin
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"The opposite of love is not hate,
it’s indifference."
~ Elie Wiesel
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"Falling in love is not an extension
of one s limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary
collapse of them."
~ M Scott Peck
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"The first duty of love is to
listen."
~ Paul Tillich
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"In literature as in love, we are
astonished at what is chosen by others."
~ André Maurois
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"Cooking is like love. It should be
entered into with abandon or not at all."
~ Harriet Van Horne
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" Many a man has fallen in love with
a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it."
~ Maurice Chevalier
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"This is one of the miracles of
love: It gives … a power of seeing through its own enchantments and
yet not being disenchanted."
~ C S Lewis
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"A successful marriage requires
falling in love many times, always with the same person."
~ Mignon McLaughlin
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"One advantage of marriage, it seems
to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out
of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in
again."
~ Judith Viorst
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"To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up."
~ Ogden Nash
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"A fastidious person in the throes
of love is a rich source of mirth."
~ Martha Duffy
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"To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither! "
~ Robert Burns
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"I'm in the mood for love
Simply because you're near me.
Funny, but when you're near me
I'm in the mood for love."
~ Dorothy Fields
