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| | Love lasts when the relationship comes first.
| | Abraham Lincoln,
1809-1865, American,
Statesman, former president of the USA |
| The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behaviour.
| | Abraham Maslow,
1908-1970, American,
Psychologist |
| I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
| | Alain de Botton,
1969-, English,
Writer |
| I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Charm is a way of getting the answer yet without asking a clear question.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
| Feel how the Greater Being comes!/Rejoice and, in rejoicing die!/Melt in the music of the drums!
For I am you and you are I.
| | Aldous Huxley,
1894-1963, English,
Author |
| Hug me till you drug me, honey;/Kiss me till I'm in a coma:/Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny;
Love's as good as soma.
| | Aldous Huxley,
1894-1963, English,
Author |
| To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
| | Alex Grey,
1953-, American,
Artist |
| Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
| | Alexander Smith,
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| If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
| | Andre Breton,
1896-1966, French,
Poet |
| Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
| | Anthony Trollope,
1815-1882, English,
Author |
| Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
| | Anthony Trollope,
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| Language is the source of misunderstandings.
| | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
1900 - 1944, French,
Writer and Aviator |
| The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
| | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
1900 - 1944, French,
Writer and Aviator |
| In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
| | Antonio Porchia,
1885 - 1968, Italian,
Poet |
| A friend is a second self.
| | Aristotle,
384 - 322 BCE, Greek,
Philosopher |
| As perfume doth remain/ In the folds where it hath lain,/ So the thought of you remaining/ Deeply folded in my brain,/ Will not leave me: all things leave me:/ You remain.
| | Arthur Symons,
1865-1945, British,
Poet |
| I expect to pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature (or child), let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
| | Attienne De Grellet,
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