#love is

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't. ↗

— Jane Rule

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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. ↗

— Walter Scott

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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

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For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. ↗

— Terence

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Love is the only gold. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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Love is sacrifice. ↗

— David Oyelowo

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

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