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  • The road to true love never did run smooth.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
        Maya Angelou   Best?
  • To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
        Neil Gaiman   Best?
  • There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
        Unknown   Best?
  • Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Charity sees the need not the cause.
        German Proverb   Best?
  • Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
        Unknown   Best?
  • One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
        Sophocles   Best?
  • At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
        Ernesto "Che" Guevara   Best?
  • I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
        Charles Baudelaire   Best?
  • The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
        Erica Jong   Best?
  • Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
        Anton Chekhov   Best?
  • Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
        Jean Anouilh   Best?
  • The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
        Leo Buscaglia   Best?
  • Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
        Martha Beck   Best?
  • The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
        Terence, Roman Dramatist   Best?
  • I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
        Samuel Taylor Coleridge   Best?
  • Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
        Iris Murdoch   Best?
  • Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
        Ricard   Best?
  • Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
        Rainer Maria Rilke   Best?
  • Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
        Socrates   Best?

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