Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Fit yourself into accord with the things in which your portion has been cast, and love the men among whom your lot has fallen, but love them truly.
You want peace: create love.
Only truth can face injustice. Truth, or love.
Love is not merely a sentiment, it is an art.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
Where there is no love there is also no truth.
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
A hundred motives compel me to be always in love.
If there is a pure love, exempt from the mixture of our other passions, it is that which is concealed at the bottom of the heart and of which even ourselves are ignorant.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.
Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Ah, who brings the happy moments, Glorious days of sweet first love; Who can bring back a single hour Of that blessed time again.
Love has no price but love.
Love is merely a madness.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Charity is a universal benevolence, and benevolence an habit of love.
For whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.
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