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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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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 when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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We love even when our love is not requited. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real. ↗