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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Book IV, Ch. 11
- Happiness
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Bk. XIV, ch. 15
- God
- Life & Death
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XII
- God
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1869), Bk. XII, Ch. 16
- Life & Death
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part Seven, Chapter 24In context
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867), Vol. II, ch. 67
- Life & Death
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 30
- Marriage
- Money
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth,
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume
Martin Farquhar Tupper1810–1889Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849), Of Immortality.
- God
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain1835–1910‘s Notebook (1935)
When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop⁠—that is, with a marriage; but when he writes of juveniles, he must stop where he best can.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), ConclusionIn context
- Marriage
- Writing
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
?UnattributedOften credited to Kahlil Gibran
Love is a verb.
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Civilized people need love for full sexual satisfaction.
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- Sex
They say love is around every corner. I must be walking in circles.
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We need not think alike to love alike.
?UnattributedOften credited to Ferenc Dávid