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Precious Love Quotes for Precious Love

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Some love quotes seem universally applicable. It is uncanny that others have also undergone the same journey of love that we ourselves have.

Ovid
Meminerunt omnia amantes [Lovers remember everything].

Victor Hugo
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness, which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Mother Teresa
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Vincent van Gogh
Love is eternal. The aspect of it may change, but the essence remains the same.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.

Benjamin Franklin
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.

Frank A. Clark
A baby is born with a need to be loved -- and never outgrows it.

Oscar Wilde
To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong affair.

Mark Twain
Love: The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Agnes Repplier
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Victor Hugo
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Anonymous
Countless words, nor countless actions could ever define my feelings for you. True love defies definition.

Barbara Streisand
There is nothing more important in life than love.

Igor Stravinsky
What force is more potent than love!

Mark Twain
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

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