“The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return.”
Winston Graham (1908–2003) British writer
Source: Ross Poldark
“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”
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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
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"Nature Boy" (1948)
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
His assertion to Joe Romersa, of how his lyrics should be corrected, saying that "To be loved in return, is too much of a deal, and that has nothing to do with love."
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Fools and kings
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A promise, still so pure.”
Kate Havnevik (1975) Norwegian singer-songwriter
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“Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.”
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
L'amour qui naît subitement est le plus long à guérir.
Aphorism 13
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Medicine can cure; faith cannot.”
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 236
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)