Famous Love Quotes with Background Info

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All you need is love. - John Lennon

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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt - Charles M. Schulz

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The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return - Eden Ahbez

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Love means never having to say you're sorry. - from Love Story

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

"All you need is love" - John Lennon

"All You Need Is Love" is a song written by John Lennon for The Beatles appearance on Our World, the first live global television broadcast on June 25, 1967. The BBC, which conceived the broadcast, specifically asked for a song with a simple message that could be understood by all nationalities.

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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." - Charles M. Schulz

"Peanuts" comic strip author.

Nature Boy lyrics
There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return." - Eden Ahbez

This is from "Nature Boy", composed by Eden Ahbez, and made famous by Nat King Cole in 1948, with other versions by Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, and Dick Haymes, all released in the same year.

Originally, Cole's manager was simply handed the song backstage during a performance. When Cole wanted to release a recording of the song, they needed to track down Ahbez, and found him living under the HOLLYWOOD sign. While Cole's version of the song was at the top of the Billboard charts, there was a large media hype surrounding Ahbez, during which he was covered by Life, Time, and Newseek magazines.

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This is the first sentence from sonnet 43 of a book titled "Sonnets from the Portuguese", which Browning wrote over 2 years during her courtship by Robert Browning. She struggled with poor health for much of her life, and was doubtful of her suitor's sincerity. This information gives an interesting perspective to her poetry, because the subject of death appears several times within the sonnets.

"Love means never having to say you're sorry." - Oliver Barrett IV, in Love Story

Love Story, is a novel and screenplay written by Erich Segal. It was originally written as a screen play. It was converted to a novel and published in February of 1970. The movie was then released in December of 1970.

The story is about a wealthy Harvard student named Oliver Berret IV, who meets Jennifer Cavelleri, a working class girl attending Radcliffe College. Oliver's father disowns him. Jennifer becomes ill, and Oliver and his father make ammends, but not before Jennifer dies.

The role of Oliver, is based on former Vice President Al Gore and actor Tommy Lee Jones, whom Segal new as students while he was teaching at Harvard.

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

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Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. - Houssaye

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Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. There are three things that last faith, hope and love, and love is the greatest of these. - Landon Carter in A Walk to Remember

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. - Goethe

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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

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If I know what love is, it is because of you. - Hermann Hesse

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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To love another person is to see the face of God. - Victor Hugo in Les Misérables

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We must love one another or die. - W. H. Auden

The "I Am Loved" Challenge

I challenge you to focus on "I am loved" for one week, and share your results with others.

I received a similar challenge from Serge Kahili King. Since then, I've found it to be an excellent tool for coping with the more difficult aspects of my life, and I feel a desire to share my success with others.