Quotes about love
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There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.
Alan Watts1915–1973The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
Alan Watts1915–1973The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
Simone Weil1909–1943The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 192
Simone Weil1909–1943Last Notebook (1942) p. 84Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley1703–1791Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George EayrsDon’t marry a man to reform him—that’s what reform schools are for.
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919The Way (1913).
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919“Love’s Language”, Poems of Progress 1913 editionHell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love’s location.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919The Way (1913).All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919New Thought Pastels (1913), LoveLife is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.


