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- There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.
- David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
- To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
- Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
- There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
- One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
- Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
- Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
- People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.
- Eucharista Ward, Match For Mary Bennet, 2009
- When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
- There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
- What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
- I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003
- You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
- They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.
- Gregory Thomas Garcia, Elijah Aron, Jordan Young, Raising Hope, Cheaters, April 2011
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
- There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
- Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
- Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
- Ice T, The Ice Opinion
- A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary.
- Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982)
- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
- We can only learn to love by loving.
- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004
- When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
- But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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