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Letter "L" » Love
«Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.»
«Love is an egoism of two»
«Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.»
Author: Claude Roy
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
attachment, detachment, discomfort, discomforting, discomforts, looking at, misfortune
«Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
anterior, breath, breaths, Creation, exponent, exponents, initial, initialed, initials, in the same breath, out of breath, posterior, take a breath
«Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
arming, arms, close, close in, Get closer, holding, left, open, take arms, take up arms, under arms
«Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.»
Author: Octavio Paz
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
attempt, mutual, penetrated, penetrating, succeed, surrender
«Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.»
Author: Peter Ustinov
| About:
Forgiveness,
Love
| Keywords:
act, Acts of Love, Act of, becomes, endless, forgiveness, habit, tender, tenders
«Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
alliance, animalism, exalted, gross, predominate, predominates, predominating, refined, sensual
«Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people?s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.»
«Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
attempt, change, dream, dream world, into, piece, Piece By Piece, reality
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