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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun."

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"Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things real."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"The energy born of love is creative - it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look around at what you have created."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence"

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"Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that."

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Brigham Young Religious Leader
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"We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity."

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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it. We don't have to marry people or date them because we care about them very deeply. It's an experience."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil."

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