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"One thing people often want me to talk about is my public love life. When it comes to my love life, the perception seems as though I am a player. But that’s not true. Love is something I am still learning. It’s just an obstacle that I haven’t yet mastered. I think that’s my biggest hurdle in life."
"Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another."
"Of all things love is the most potent."
"Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner."
"As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love."
"A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry."
"Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life."
"Love is the wish to give, not to receive."
"Love is giving everything and taking nothing"
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."
"Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion."
"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever."
"Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved."
"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust."
"Love is the only medicine I believe in."
"Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit."
"Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy...As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire."
"One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about."
"We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way."
"The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness."
