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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion."

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in the act of penetrating the other person, I find myself, I discover myself, I discover us both, I discover man."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond."

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Ava Gardner Actress
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"Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored."

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