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Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.

—MICHAEL O’BRIEN

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

—ECKHART TOLLE

If you love large, you’ve got to hurt large. If you’ve got a lot of light, you’ve probably got an equal amount of darkness.

—SARAH MCLACHLAN

Isn’t it better to wear the love of one man than the admiration of half a dozen?

—SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

—MERLE SHAIN

People fall in love, but they have to climb out.

—LAURENCE J. PETER

So afraid to love you, more afraid to lose Clinging to a past that doesn’t let me choose

—SARAH MCLACHLAN

Someone stole my heart. I haven’t gotten it back, because I haven’t found anyone to steal it back for me.

—SCOTT “JESUS” WATSON

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

—ALANIS MORISSETTE

Youth’s for an hour,
beauty’s a flower,
But love is the jewel
that wins the world.

—MOIRA O’NEILL

I thought I was in love once, but it turned out it was just an inner ear imbalance.

—PAUL HAGGIS

Possessive love: you have me, I have you.

—PATRICK JULIENNE

In the race for love, I was scratched.

—JOAN DAVIES

Love is a fire
It burns everyone
It disfigures everyone
It is the world’s excuse
for being ugly

—LEONARD COHEN

Our achievements may make us interesting… but our darkness makes us loveable.

—DOUGLAS COUPLAND

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.

—MARGARET ATWOOD

Being in love was like running barefoot along a street covered with broken bottles.

—MARGARET ATWOOD

People are only as good as what they love.

—SAUL BELLOW

To love is easy; to be loved is a little more difficult.

—JOVETTE BERNIER

My neighbour
doesn’t want to be loved
as much as
he wants to be envied.

—IRVING LAYTON

you fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye

—MARGARET ATWOOD

If they say they love you, trust their behavior. If they say they don’t love you, trust their words.

—JOHN H. DICKEY

You can cure the whole world with love and penicillin.

—EUGèNE CLOUTIER

You can never love any individual entirely until you laugh at him a little.

—KIT COLEMAN

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

—MARGARET ATWOOD

When we want to be useful and loved, so let’s not be too funny.

—BERNADETTE JOUVIN

My friends, love is better than anger.
Hope is better than fear.
Optimism is better than despair.
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic.
And we’ll change the world.

—JACK LAYTON

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

—STEPHEN LEACOCK

Fall not in love—it will stick to your face.

—DAN AYKROYD

Sex is here to stay but it will never be the same.

—GUY GODIN

Facing our sexual fantasies honestly would tell us a lot about ourselves.

—ANDRÉ GUINDON

Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.

—NORM MCDONALD

I don’t understand Viagra—I mean I like pie but I don’t want to eat it for four hours.

—CAROLINE RHEA

What you don’t see is far more erotic than what you see.

—DEEPA MEHTA

I jog alone at night. I’m not afraid, I go naked. That way, if there are any perverts around, they think I’m already being chased.

—BONNIE MCFARLANE

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven Symphony by having someone tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

—ROBERTSON DAVIES

I wrote a book about a transsexual with a speech impediment. It’s called Man or Myth.

—STEWART FRANCIS