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    A Dictionary of Love - Over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arranged alphabetically
    A Dictionary of Love - Over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arranged alphabetically
    A Dictionary of Love - Over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arranged alphabetically
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    A Dictionary of Love - Over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arranged alphabetically

    By Gil Friedman

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    NEW EXPANDED EDITION! A Dictionary of Love with 22 more subject categories and over 50 more authors than the first edition.

    A Dictionary of Love consists of over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arrange alphabetically in 213 subject categories by more than 350 authors, philosophers and celebrities including Kahlil Gibran, Bertrand Russell, Erich Fromm, Mother Teresa and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

    The book is arranged for leisurely and easy reading. There is an index in the back listing authors, the category containing their quotes, and the source of these quotes, when known.

    Praise for A Dictionary of Love

    "A Dictionary of Love is a veritable Valentine of a book. It's a tidy collection of bon mots on the subject of love." The Sunday Herald, Monterrey, CA

    "A really fun book to read. There is either a good laugh or a real thought provoker (or even both) on each page." New England Bride

    "Consider these 'pearls of wisdom' from A Dictionary of Love" Family Circle

    "Who wrote the book of love? The Answer, historians will argue. might be pretty difficult to trace. But one thing is certainly true, whoever wrote the book of love could probably have used Gil Friedman's A Dictionary of Love, on the desk beside the tablets, papyrus sheets, sheepskin, or whatever the muses used in the misty land of romantic wisdom." Chico Enterprise Record, Chico, CA

    "With its variety of quotes—from the acerbic to the spiritual to the sentimental—this collection is never dull, and it also offers many thoughts worth meditating on." Small Press Review

    "Beautiful Work." John Robbins, author of Diet for a Small America

    "...Very beautiful book, we will refer to it often." Joyce and Barry Visell, authors of The Shared Heart

    "What a joy to receive your wonderful book. I am honored you included mine." Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

    "A great depository of quotes on love."
    Single Adult Ministry Information

    "What sets Mr. Friedman's volume apart from earlier anthologies on the theme of love is that he included many New Age sages and they add a touch of seriousness and timeliness. There is Rollo May, Meher Baba, Gerald G. Jampolsky, Bernie S. Siegal, to mention just a few."
    North Coast News

    "Funny, rueful, practical, wise and compassionate, this collection is a recommended gift to anyone who is in or might be in a love relationship (like teenagers). One charming feature is the great range of attitudes displayed. One can disagree totally with one, and on the same page find one that rings true and provides an insight. Lots of fun, and more educational than many a tome." New Age Retailer

    "This rich reference book is a must for all of us who want to express and understand love. Helpful, funny, bittersweet comments and insights. . . In all, about 300 lovers from various times and places unite to guide the reader on an odyssey invaluable to those who write lyrics, poetry, or an occasional love letter. It would make a suitable gift to mark either the end or the beginning of a love affair." Body, Mind Spirit

    "Witty, profound and sometimes just plain fun this book is a delightful addition to the growing ranks of subject specific quotation books. It will be welcome by anyone—reader, writer, or librarian—who has ever searched in vain for just the right quote on the subject of love." American Reference Book Annual, Vol. 22, Libraries Unlimited, Inc.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGil Friedman
    Release dateMar 16, 2012
    ISBN9780913038208
    A Dictionary of Love - Over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arranged alphabetically
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    Gil Friedman

    Friedman was born in a log cabin in the South, the South Bronx, He has always kept his New York accent. He attended P.S. 95, a public grammar school, and DeWitt Clinton High School, an all boys public high school. He started the University of Michigan at 17 but was unprepared socially. This has been his modus operandi throughout life. He then spent six months in active duty and five and half years in the reserve. After active service, he attended UCLA studying for a PhD in Clinical Psychology, but after two and a half years, he flunked out. He worked as a research psychologist in the defense industry for eighteen months, and then not knowing what to do, he applied to law school since there were no requirements other than having a B.A. On a lark, he applied to Harvard Law School, and much to his amazement, was accepted. At Harvard, he was one of the students there who made the top half of the class possible. After graduation, he settled in San Francisco where he obtained a job in a small firm in San Carlos, about 25 miles south of the city. While there he created, The Goldwater Calendar: Time for a Change??? about Barry Goldwater, the Republican candidate in the 1964 presidential election. After six months at the San Carlos firm, he was fired, one of the happiest days of his life. He next worked as a lawyer in a mixed neighborhood in San Francisco which he enjoyed, but had the thought he wanted to be a university teacher. While teaching Business Law at the University of Connecticut, he wrote his unpublished book about auto insurance entitled Are You Being Taken For a Ride? A chapter of the book entitled 'Why Auto Insurance Rates Keep Going Up' was published in the September 1969 issue of The Atlantic. After one year at Uconn, he came back to San Francisco to the hippie revolution. As a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, he reached the pinnacle of his writing career having five articles published in The New Republic in the space of seven months. After eighteen months at Legal Aid, he was asked to leave because he wasn't filing any big issue cases. He had a few thousand in the bank and wondered if he could go a few months without a job. The legal aid job was the last job Friedman ever had with the exception of teaching Family Law at Warwick University in Coventry, England for eighteen months, which was more of a vacation than a job, but the vacation abruptly ended when he received an advance to write a book on English di...

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      A Dictionary of Love - Over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arranged alphabetically - Gil Friedman

      A Dictionary of Love

      Gil Friedman

      A Dictionary of Love

      Expanded Edition

      Compiled by Gil Friedman

      Published by Gil Friedman on Smashwords

      Discover other titles by Gil Friedman at www.gilfriedman.com.

      Copyright 1990, 2000, 2012 by Gil Friedman

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, except brief extracts for the purpose of review, without the written permission of the publisher. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      A dictionary of love.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      1. Love—Quotations, maxims, etc. I. Friedman, Gil.

      PN6084.L6D53 1990 082 89-90140

      ISBN-13: 978-0-913038-20-8

      ISBN-10: 0-913038-20-2

      Yara Press

      1735 J Street, Arcata, CA 95521

      www.GilFriedman.com

      Phone: 707-822-5001

      Email: gilfriedman1@gmail.com

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Action and Love

      Admiration and Love

      Adventure and Love

      Advice on Love

      Affection and Love

      Age and Love

      Alchemy and Love

      Ambition and Love

      Anger and Love

      Anxiety and Love

      Apologies and Love

      Arithmetic and Love

      Attachment and Love

      Attitude toward Love

      Attraction and Love

      Aversion and Love

      Barriers to Love

      Beauty and Love

      Belief and Love

      The Bible and Love

      Bitterness and Love

      Blindness and Love

      Books and Love

      Brilliant Achievement and Love

      Brotherly Love

      Celebration and Love

      Change and Love

      Children and Love

      Choice and Love

      Commitment to Love

      Common Sense and Love

      Companionship and Love

      Completion and Love

      Compliments and Love

      Concern and Love

      Conjugal vs. Romantic Love

      Cooking and Love

      Courtship and Love

      Dancing and Love

      Death and Love

      Decay of Love

      Delicacy and Love

      Dependence and Love

      Devotion and Love

      Direction of Love

      Divorce and Love

      Domination and Love

      Duty to Love

      Education and Love

      Elopement and Love

      Embarrassment and Love

      Emotional Acceptance and Love

      Emptiness and Love

      Enemies and Love

      Energy and Love

      Essence of Love

      Eternity and Love

      Exaggeration and Love

      Existence and Love

      Expectations and Love

      Expression of Love

      The Eye and Love

      Falling in Love

      False Love

      Family and Love

      Fantasy and Love

      Fate and Love

      Faults and Love

      Fear and Love

      Fire and Love

      First Love

      Flowers and Love

      Food and Love

      Forgetfulness and Love

      Forgiveness and Love

      Friendship and Love

      Frivolous Love

      Genius and Love

      Gifts and Love

      Giving Love

      God and Love

      Grumbling and Love

      Half a Love

      Happiness and Love

      Hatred and Love

      Healing and Love

      Health and Love

      Help and Love

      Home and Love

      Honeymoon and Love

      Hope and Love

      The Human Psyche and Love

      Humor and Love

      Husbands and Love

      Ideal Love

      Illusions and Love

      Importance of Love

      Incapacity to Love

      Independence and Love

      Indifference and Love

      Infatuation vs. Love

      Influence of Love

      Jealousy and Love

      Joy and Love

      Judging Love

      Karma and Love

      Kindness and Love

      Kissing and Love

      Knowing Your Lover

      Learning to Love

      Life and Love

      Lingerie and Love

      Loneliness and Love

      Looking for Love

      Love Affairs and Love

      Love and Loving

      Love at First Sight

      Loving and Being Loved

      Lubricant and Love

      Lust vs. Love

      Marriage and Love

      Marriage Proposals and Love

      Meanings of Love

      Meditation and Love

      Men and Love

      Methods of Love

      Middle Age and Love

      Miracle of Love

      Mistress and Love

      Money and Love

      Motherly Love

      Mushrooms and Love

      Mutual Love

      Mystery and Love

      Need and Love

      Neighborly Love

      Pain and Love

      Parenting and Love

      Passion and Love

      Patience and Love

      Peace and Love

      Perfect Love

      Pleasure and Love

      Poetry and Love

      Possessions and Love

      Possessiveness and Love

      Proper Motions and Love

      Proximity and Love

      Punishment and Love

      Puppy Love

      Pure Love

      Reason and Love

      Reflection and Love

      Relatives and Love

      Relativity and Love

      Remedy for Love

      Respect and Love

      Revealing and Feigning Love

      Revolution and Love

      Reward of Love

      Risk and Love

      Romantic Love

      Roots of Love

      Sacrifice and Love

      Satisfaction and Love

      Second Love

      Secret Love

      Seduction and Love

      Self-Esteem and Love

      Self-Improvement and Love

      Self-Love

      Service and Love

      Sex and Love

      Shyness and Love

      Simplicity and Love

      Sin and Love

      Solitude and Love

      Source of Love

      Spirituality and Love

      Strength and Love

      Success in Love

      Suffering and Love

      Support and Love

      Sweetness and Love

      Talking and Love

      Tests of Love

      Time and Love

      Toast to Love

      Triangles and Love

      True Love

      Unconditional Love

      Unreciprocated Love

      Valuation and Love

      Vitality and Love

      Vulnerability and Love

      Way to Love

      Will and Love

      Winning and Losing Love

      Wisdom and Love

      Wishes and Love

      Wives and Love

      Women and Love

      Work and Love

      Worthiness and Love

      Wounds and Love

      Authors Index and Bibliography

      Reviews of Other Books by Gil Friedman

      Autographed Books by Gil Friedman

      Introduction

      Over 2,500 years ago the Buddha observed that two things can break your heart: one was not to get your heart's desire, and the other was to get it. In no field does this seem to apply more than in our love life.

      Many modern marriages and relationships are like fortresses under siege. Those who are in want out, and those out, in. In the past, many such couples met, fell in love, experienced initial bliss, started a relationship and married. Then they started to experience the decay of their relationship and love over a period of years. They went through various stages, such as the seven-year itch, before the love, and the relationship, died, whether the couple stayed together or not. Today this process can take place in a couple of months or even over a weekend.

      With so many relationships not living up to initial expectations, most everyone would like advice on the next step in his or her love life, or whether to take any step at all. Advice, however, can be a tricky matter. As the German proverb goes, Advice is something the wise don't need, the foolish won't take, and everyone is overstocked with; and, as the 17th-century Frenchman La Rochefoucauld said in his book Maxims, Old people like to give good advice since they can no longer set bad examples.

      Some who give good advice have been temporarily incapacitated from setting bad examples. For example, honor and gentleness toward women were never more idealized than in the tales of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. The original English version of this myth was in a book, Le Morte d'Arthur, written by Thomas Malory while in jail for extortion, looting a monastery, and two counts of rape.

      Good examples can also cause problems, as Mark Twain pointed out: Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

      Yet one is still tempted to read and think about what many of the great philosophers, thinkers and writers have thought about love. In some technical fields, last year's technology might be outmoded today, but, as far as love goes, what someone said 2,000 years before Christ might be just as valid now. Jo Coudert observed in Advice from a Failure:

      There is nothing old under the sun; each of us must learn again, from the beginning, for ourselves; but the learning process can be hastened and deepened and solidified by a personal and creative borrowing of the insights of other people. The exactitude of a phrase someone else uses may sum up an idea hitherto dimly groped for. A writer's point of view may open a region which would otherwise go unexplored. The rightness of an observation may be so remarkable that an approach to an event or person may never be the same again.

      This is a book of maxims, aphorisms and short excerpts about love with 213 categories in alphabetical order, from Action and Love through Wounds and Love, by more than 350 authors. These quotations record the myriad observations on the universal subject of love. The reader can locate any aspect of love in a matter of seconds and read what a writer, philosopher, or famous personality has said about it.

      I do not expect the reader to agree with every quote; I don't. Each one, however, is provocative and will exercise and hopefully amuse the reader's mind. Quotes placed beside each other sometimes appear totally contradictory, but the reader will find upon close examination that seeming inconsistencies help pinpoint how we really feel about various issues.

      Whether one reads just a few of the sayings or all of them, there is much to enjoy and mull over in this book. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

      Action and Love

      Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

      James Russell Lowell

      Admiration and Love

      To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

      Theophile Gautier

      We always love our admirers, but not always those whom we admire.

      Francois de La Rochefoucauld

      Maxims, 1665

      Adventure and Love

      We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its

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