"I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment."
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"I am amazed at the seeker of purity When time for polishing comes Complaints of harsh treatment Love is a lawsuit Without evidence, you will not win My son, when one beats the rug The beating is not intended against the rug But against the dust inside the rug My son, that harsh treatment Is not intended against you But against the ill qualities inside you"
"Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is."
"Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things"
"O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all."
"Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists."
"The whole business of love is to drown in the sea."
"Love is the water of life, jump into this water."
"Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?"
"Whatever you know, or don’t - only Love is real."
"Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum."
"Love is the house of God and you are living in that house."
"The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other."
"I think that I've always been on a search. I have my own kind of belief in love is the being, but I think that I've always been searching for truth and I think there's lots of truths and I think we should respect that in each other, and that's really what I wanted to bring across."
"all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on."
"Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving."
"I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life."
"Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect."
"I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality."
"What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true."