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The art of love is largely the art of persistence. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self. ↗

— David Frost

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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ↗

— Bruce Lee

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. ↗

— Stephen Levine

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Being in love is the only transcendent experience. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

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