"Love is music, and sex is only the instrument."
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"Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!"
"No act of love is ever wasted."
"He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love."
"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend."
"Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty."
"Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine."
"Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth."
"Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender."
"One thing I love is to do childrens hospital visits."
"Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next."
"And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?"
"I love beautiful things; I like having nice clothes, and I can appreciate why other people do - but I've also started to learn more about the impact of what we buy: how things are made, how much you buy and the quality of everything."
"Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface."
"...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die."
"Love is needing to be loved."
"Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment."
"My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film."
"The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else."
"Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory."