#love is

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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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 the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. ↗

— John Cheever

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I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome. ↗

— Bo Derek

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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