Thousands of Romantic Love Quotes

Below are other cute and beautiful Love quotes to fill you with romantic fantasies.

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."

John Holt

Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.

Crystal Middlemas

The Time Ive lost in wooing,In watching and pursuing The light that lies In womens eyes Has been my hearts undoing.

Thomas Moore

In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

Sophocles

Feeling High. High.High On Love

Love ?

What is love with out you

What is love with out me ?

What is love with out us?

What is love with out love ?

By ruth

Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love! 

~ from the movie Moulin Rouge ~

Other men said they have seen angels, 

But I have seen thee 

And thou art enough. 

~ by G. Moore ~

I would fly you to the moon and back if you'll be . . . if you'll be my baby. 

~ From a song by Savage Garden ~

I love you - those three words have my life in them. 

~ by Alexandrea to Nicholas III ~

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. 

~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - 

I have shudder'd at it. 

I shudder no more. 

I could be martyr'd for my religion 

Love is my religion 

And I could die for that. 

I could die for you. 

~ by John Keats ~

I'd like to run away 

From you, 

But if you didn't come 

And find me ... 

I would die. 

~ by Shirley Bassey ~

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. 

~ by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) ~

The greatest thing you'll ever learn 

Is to love and be loved in return. 

~ From "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole

Soul meets soul on lover's lips. 

~ by Percy Bysshe Shelly ~

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. 

I've always found time to teach them. 

~ by Mae West ~ 

Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's

called falling in love, because you don't force

yourself to fall, you just fall.

Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman,

but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,

an hour to like someone, and an day to love someone...

It breaks your heart to see the one you love is happy

with someone else, but it's more painful to know that

the one you love is unhappy with you.

If love is the answer,

can you please repeat the question?

Faith makes all things possible. 

Love makes them easy.

I believe that to truly Love, is the ultimate

expression of the will to live. A heart that

truly loves is forever young.

Love makes life so confusing, but without love

would you really want to live?

Do you love me because I am beautiful

or am I beautiful because I am loved?

Love me now, love me never,

but if you love me, love me forever.

Three things of life that are most valuable -

Love, self-confidence & friends.

To the world you may be just one person,

but to one person you may be the world.

Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.

Who do you turn to when the only person

in the world that can stop you from crying,

is exactly the one making you cry?

He taught me how to love,

but not how to stop.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person,

but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Many a young lady does not realize just how strong

her love for a young man is until he fails to pass

the approval test with her parents.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her

than a man she loves.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says 'For the woman I love' and the second, 'For my best friend.'

A good marriage is like a casserole,

only those responsible for it really

know what goes in it.

No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Love, true love, is that which can give the most

without asking or demanding anything in return.

Where there is love, there is God also.

All, everything that I understand,

I understand only because I love.

~ Leo Tolstoy ~

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it

and the ones who receive it.

 Dr. Karl énage ~

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:

That word is love.

~ Sophocles ~

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship

and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual

affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it

will not be created for years or even generations.

~ Khalil Gibran ~

When they asked me what I loved most about life,

I smiled and said you.

~ Tina ~

Just because you know someone doesn't mean you love them,

and just because you don't know people doesn't mean you can't

love them. You can fall in love with a complete stranger in a

heartbeat, if God planned that route for you. So open your heart

to strangers more often. You never know when God will throw

that pass at you.

~ Heather Grove ~

Love... What is love? Love is to love someone

for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.

~ Chris Moore ~

Why do you say you love me, 

if you are only going to leave me?

~ Julia ~

Love is like a river, always changing,

but always finding you again somewhere

down the road.

~ Kelly Elaine ~

Love is a language spoken by everyone,

but understood only by a heart.

~ Shirley Rindani ~

People need love even when they don't deserve it.

~ Nikki Ledbetter ~

For every word you say, 

another piece of my heart you take.

~ Tiara Johnson ~

Maybe God put a few bad people in your life,

so when the right one came along you'd be thankful.

~ Andrea Kiefer ~

Love the heart that hurts you,

But never hurt the heart that loves you.

Love me for a reason,

let the reason be love.  

It doesn't take a reason to love someone,

but it does to like someone. You don't love

someone because you want to, you love someone

because you are destined too. It's because you

fall in Love with them, that you then try to

find a reason, but you always come up with

the answer, No reason!

Love is the beginning of all the joy

which nature has store for us.

Never say goodbye when you still want to try.

Never give up when you still feel you can take it.

Never say you don't love a person when you  can't let go.

Say I love you and mean it,

don't just say it cause you can.  

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life.

 And perhaps we are right.

 Love can find an entrance, not only into an open heart,

 but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept.

Love unexpressed is a crime against the heart.

Listen to the love around you. Your ears are open even if your mind is closed.

Falling in love reminds you that nothing else matter

Life is eternal. Love is immortal,

Sometimes it is a relief to fiend you are not in love

When you are in love with life nothing is to hard. Everything has freshness and reason, and all is as it is.

 If you want to experience love, you have to take the risk. Love's always worth the risk.

Dream on do in pursuit of your dream. The dunes are changed by the wind but the desert never changes That's the way it will be with our love for each other. If I am part of your dream you'll come back one day.

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

 "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."

 "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

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

 "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

 "There is no remedy for love but to love more."

-Thoreau

 "Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!"

 "True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."

"You call it madness, but I call it love."

 "If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest."

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life. And perhaps we are right.

 "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

Edmund Spenser

if you love somebody, tell them.

Rod McKuen

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

unknown

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

Latin proverbs

A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love.

A smile is nearly always inspired by another smile.

anonymous

a song isn't a song until you sing it a bell isn't a bell until you ring it love in your heart isn't put there to say love isn't love until you give it away. ("The Sound of Music")

unknown

A thing of beauty is joy forever.

John Keats

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ("Histoire amoureuse des Gaules")

Christopher 

Absence sharpens love, but presence strengthens it.

All you need is love.

John Lennon

And the trouble is if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

Wu Ti

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. ("Hamlet")

William Shakespeare

For those who love... time is eternity...

Henry Van Dyke

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Max Jacob

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

I could do without many things with no hardship--you are not one of them.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I don't make you feel special, I just remind you that you are special.

David F. Sims

I love you for the man you are, I love you for the things you do, I love you for the things you say. But most of all I love you because you love me for the woman I am for the things I do and for the things I say. I love you

Magnolias

may not be a smart man but I know what love is.

Forrest Gump

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.

Robert Tizon

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with a little rain!

Dolly Parton

In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love.

George Gordon Lord Byron

In women everything is heart, even the head.

J.P. Richter

No man is truly married 

until he understands 

every word his wife is NOT saying. 

~ by Unknown ~

You will never know true happiness 

until you have truly loved, 

and you will never understand 

what pain really is 

until you have lost it. 

~ by Anonymous ~

To live is like to love - 

all reason is against it, 

and all healthy instinct for it. 

~ by Samuel Butler, Life and love ~

....A simple I love you means more than money.... 

~ by Frank Sinatra ~

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, 

Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. 

~ by Anonymous ~

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage... 

~ by Ambrose Bierce ~

To be in love is merely to be 

In a state of perpetual anesthesia: 

To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god 

Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. 

~ by H.L. Mencken ~

Life without love is like a tree 

Without blossom and fruit. 

~ by Khalil Gibra ~

I love thee, I love but thee 

With a love that shall not die 

Till the sun grows cold 

And the stars grow old. 

~ by Willam Shakespeare ~

Love is like war, 

Easy to begin but hard to end. 

~ by Anonymous ~

Seduce my mind and you can have my body, 

Find my soul and I'm yours forever. 

~ by Anonymous ~

So dear I love him that with him, 

All deaths I could endure. 

Without him, live no life. 

~ by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ~

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. 

In the beginning a flame, very pretty, 

Often hot and fierce, 

But still only light and flickering. 

As love grows older, 

Our hearts mature 

And our love becomes as coals, 

Deep-burning and unquenchable. 

~ by Bruce Lee ~

I have loved to the point of madness; 

That which is called madness, 

That which to me, 

Is the only sensible way to love. 

~ by F. Sagan ~

She walks in beauty, 

Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; 

And all that's best of dark and bright 

Meet in her aspect and her eyes. 

~ by Byron ~

Your voice makes me tremble inside 

And your smile is an invitation 

For my imagination to go wild. 

~ by Anonymous ~

One word frees us 

Of all the weight and pain in life, 

That word is Love 

~ by Socrates ~

I have learned not to worry about love; 

But to honor its coming with all my heart. 

~ by Alice Walker ~

To love a person is to learn the song 

That is in their heart, 

And to sing it to them 

When they have forgotten. 

~ by Anonymous ~

Did my heart love till now? 

Forswear it sight, 

For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. 

~ Romeo, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ~

The most precious possession that ever comes 

To a man in this world 

Is a woman's heart. 

~ by Josiah G. Holland ~

And think not you can 

Direct the course of love, 

For love, 

If it finds you worthy, 

Directs your course. 

~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

Love is a wonderful thing. 

You never have to take it away 

From one person to give it to another. 

There's always more than enough to go around. 

~ by Pamela de Roy ~

Love asks me no questions, 

And gives me endless support... 

~ by William Shakespeare ~

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature 

To stop speech when words become superfluous. 

~ by Ingrid Bergman ~

Love is like a rumor, 

Everyone talks about it, 

But no one truly knows. 

~ by Anonymous ~

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate 

Before it has cooled off. 

It takes you by surprise at first, 

But keeps you warm for a long time. 

~ by Anonymous ~

My love for you is a journey; 

Starting at forever, 

And ending at never. 

~ by Anonymous ~

Love is a haunting melody 

That I have never mastered 

And I fear I never will. 

~ by William S. Burroughs ~

A fool in love makes no sense to me. 

I only think you are a fool 

If you do not love. 

~ by Anonymous ~

Once in awhile, 

Right in the middle of an ordinary life, 

Love gives us a fairy tale. 

~ by Anonymous ~

True poets don't write 

Their thoughts with a pen... 

They release the ink that flows 

From within their heart. 

~ by Anonymous ~

The only things in life you regret, 

Are the risks that you didn't take. 

~ by Anonymous ~

You love simply because you cannot help it. 

~ by Kim Anderson ~

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. 

~ by Hubert Humprey ~

Hearts are not to be had as a gift 

earts are to be earned... 

~ by William Butler Yeats ~

True love doesn't have a happy ending: 

True love doesn't have an ending. 

~ by Anonymous ~

You don't love a woman because she's beautiful, 

She is beautiful because you love her. 

~ by Anonymous ~

Love is not a matter of counting the years... 

But making the years count. 

~ by Michelle St. Amand ~

Only love let's us see normal things 

In an extraordinary way. 

~ by Anonymous ~

A heart that loves is always young. 

~ by A Greek Proverb ~

To get the full value of joy 

You must have someone to divide it with. 

~ by Mark Twain ~

Love doesn't sit there like a stone. 

It has to be made like bread; 

Remade all the time, 

...Made new. 

~ by Le Guin ~

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, 

My love as deep; 

The more I give to thee 

The more I have, 

For both are infinite. 

~ by William Shakespeare ~

Love is that condition in which 

The happiness of another person 

Is essential to your own. 

~ by Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land ~

I only wish to be the fountain of love 

From which you drink, 

Every drop promising eternal passion. 

~ by Unknown Author ~

If I know what love is, 

It is because of you. 

~ by Herman Hesse ~

You may only be one person to the world 

But you may also be the world to one person. 

~ by Anonymous ~

A part of you has grown in me. 

And so you see, it's you and me 

Together forever and never apart, 

Maybe in distance, but never in heart. 

~ by Anonymous ~

Age does not protect us from love, 

But love to some extent protects us from age. 

~ by Anonymous ~

You can give without loving, 

But you cannot love without giving. 

~ by Amy Carmichael ~

There are no guarantees. 

From the viewpoint of fear, 

None are strong enough. 

From the viewpoint of love, 

None are necessary. 

~ by Anonymous ~

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. 

~ by Karen Sunde ~

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself 

But if your love and must needs have desires, 

Let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook

That sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart

And give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer

For the beloved in your heart

And a song of praise upon your lips. 

~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it .. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. 

~ by The Holy Bible, New International Version Ephesians 5:25-33 ~

Love doesn't make the world go round, 

Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. 

~ by Elizabeth Browning ~

Love me without fear 

Trust me without questioning 

Need me without demanding 

Want me without restrictions 

Accept me without change 

Desire me without inhibitions 

For a love so free.... 

Will never fly away. 

~ by Dick Sutphen ~

Love is a burning desire, 

That makes your heart light on fire, 

Love is being with you, 

Someone saying I love you too, 

Love is your tender kiss, 

Something you don't want to miss, 

Love is you and me, 

And that is all I see. 

~ by Anonymous ~

If I go away 

What would still remain of me? 

The ghost within your eyes? 

The whisper in your sighs? 

You see...Believe 

And I'm always there. 

~ by Jon Oliva ~

The greatest weakness of most humans 

Is their hesitancy to tell others, 

How much they love them 

While they're alive. 

~ by O.A. Battista ~

My love, you know you are my best friend. 

You know that I'd do anything for you 

And my love, let nothing come between us. 

My love for you is strong and true. 

~ by Sarah McLachlan ~

I sought for Love 

But Love ran away from me. 

I sought my Soul 

But my Soul I couldn't see. 

Then I sought You, 

And I found all three. 

~ by Unknown Author ~

The best feelings are those that 

Have no words to describe them.... 

~ by Michelle Hammersley ~

Let the world stop turning, 

Let the sun stop burning, 

Let them tell me love's not worth going through. 

If it all falls apart, 

I will know deep in my heart, 

The only dream that mattered had come true 

...In this life I was loved by you. 

~ by Bette Midler ~

We are all born for love... 

it is the principle existence and it's only end. 

~ by Disraeli ~

We can only learn to love by loving. 

~ by Iris Murdoch ~

May no gift be too small to give, 

nor too simple to receive, 

which is wrapped in thoughtfulness 

and tied with love. 

~ by L.O. Baird ~

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. 

~ by Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

The minute I heard my first love story, 

I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. 

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. 

They're in each other all along. 

~ by Maulana Jalalu'ddin Rumi ~

Love is a fruit in season at all times, 

and within the reach of every hand. 

~ by Mother Teresa ~

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. 

For love is the beauty of the soul. 

~ by St. Augustine ~

What the heart gives away is never gone ... 

It is kept in the hearts of others. 

~ by Robin St. John ~

The human heart, at whatever age, 

opens to the heart that opens in return. 

~ by Maria Edgeworth ~

Accept the things 

To which fate binds you and 

Love the people with whom fate 

Brings you together 

But do so with all your heart. 

~ by Marcus Aurelius ~

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. 

~ by Ralph Connor ~

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. 

~ by Thomas Fuller ~

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; 

Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. 

The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; 

Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done. 

~ by Francis W. Bourdillon ~

Paradise is always where love dwells. 

~ by Jean Paul F. Richter ~

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. 

~ Honore de Balzac ~

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, 

but that they cease to love. 

~ by W. Somerset Maugham ~

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person. 

~ by Nathaniel Branden ~

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. 

~ by J. Isham ~

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, 

While loving someone deeply gives you courage. 

~ by Lao Tzu ~

Even though there may be times 

It seems I'm far away 

Never wonder where I am 

'Cause I am always by your side. 

~ by Celine Dion (The Power of Love) ~

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, 

Love can transpose to form and dignity. 

Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind, 

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. 

~ by William Shakespeare ~

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life. 

~ by Joseph Addison (The Spectator Magazine) ~

Love does not die easily. 

It is a living thing. 

It thrives in the face 

of all life's hazards, 

save one--neglect. 

~ by James Bryden ~

Some pray to marry the man they love, 

my prayer will somewhat vary: 

I humbly pray to Heaven above 

that I love the man I marry. 

~ by Rose Stokes ~

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss. 

~ by Unknown ~

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. 

~ by Henry Ward Beecher ~

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. 

~ by Pearl S. Buck ~

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

~ by 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ~

All love that has not friendship for its base, 

is like a mansion built upon the sand. 

~ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. 

~ by Germaine De Stael ~

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. 

~ by Samuel Lover ~

The life and love we create is the life and love we live. 

~ by Leo Buscaglia ~

Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope. 

~ by Josh Billings ~

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. 

~ by Ivan Panin ~

Love puts the fun in together, 

The sad in apart, 

The hope in tomorrow, 

The joy in the heart. 

~ by Anonymous ~

A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life. 

~ by John Wayne Schlatter ~

Opposites attract, but after marriage, opposites attack. Most of the time, we are attracted to people who don't have the things that we have. Incompatibility is why we get married, but it's also used as a reason to divorce. 

Incompatibility is just a lack of communication. If we just try to love [our spouse] the way we want to be loved, we are in trouble. Unless you communicate, it's difficult to know how to love another person. 

~ by Dr. Charles Lowery ~

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. 

~ by Antoine De Saint-Exupery ~

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. 

~ by Janos Arany ~

Just because someone doesn't love you 

in the way you want them to, 

doesn't mean that they don't love you 

with all they've got. 

~ by Author unknown ~

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever. 

~ by Leo Buscaglia ~

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, 

smile at your husband, smile at your children, 

smile at each other--it doesn't matter who it is-- 

and that will help you to grow up in greater love 

for each other. 

~ by Mother Teresa ~

A man falls in love through his eyes, 

a woman through her ears. 

~ by Woodrow Wyatt ~

Love knows no reasons, 

love knows no lies. 

Love defies all reasons, 

love has no eyes. 

But love is not blind, 

love sees but doesn't mind. 

~ by Author unknown ~

Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, 

sometimes unrecognized, but in the end, 

always found with no regrets, forever valued 

and kept treasured. 

~ by Unknown ~

Sometimes we let affection, 

go unspoken, 

Sometimes we let our love 

go unexpressed, 

Sometimes we can't find words to tell 

our feelings, 

Especially towards those 

we love the best. 

~ by Author unknown ~

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. 

~ by Sir Hugh Walpole ~

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. 

~ by Erich Fromm ~

Think about it, there must be higher love 

Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above 

Without it, life is a wasted time 

Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine. 

~ by Steve Winwood ~

Love does not consist in gazing at each other 

but in looking together in the same direction. 

~ by Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, 

but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. 

~ by Sam Keen ~

Love is always bestowed as a gift -- 

freely, willingly, and without expectation.... 

We don't love to be loved; we love to love. 

~ by Leo Buscaglia ~

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. 

~ by Elbert Hubbard ~

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. 

~ by Victor Hugo ~

Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world. 

~ by Rev Ed Hird ~

True happiness and a fullness of joy can be found only in the tender and intimate relationships of the family. However earnestly we may seek success and happiness outside the home through work, leisure activities, or large bank accounts, we will never be fully satisfied emotionally until we develop deep and loving relationships. 

~ by James J. Jones Ph.D. ~

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. 

~ by Josiah G. Holland ~

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated. 

~ by Leo Buscaglia ~

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life. 

~ by Charles Stanley ( A Man's Touch) ~

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being. 

~ by Unknown ~

It is the things in common 

that make relationships enjoyable, 

but it is the little differences 

that make them interesting. 

~ by Todd Ruthman ~

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. 

~ by Leo Buscaglia ~

My heart to you is given: 

Oh, do give yours to me; 

We'll lock them up together, 

And throw away the key. 

~ by Frederick Saunders ~

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival. 

~ by Leo Buscaglia (Born For Love) ~

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. 

~ by George Sand ~

Love is an act of endless forgiveness 

A tender look which becomes a habit. 

~ by Peter Ustinov ~

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. 

~ by Helen Keller ~

The courses of true love never did run smooth. 

~ by William Shakespeare ~

But true love is a durable fire, 

In the mind ever burning, 

Never sick, never old, never dead, 

From itself never turning. 

~ by Sir Walter Raleigh ~

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. 

Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. 

Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. 

They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same. 

~ by Flavia Weedn ~

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. 

Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

Love is a never ending feeling.

Adeil Prince

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

When your looking for your Mr.Right you will never find him but when you least expect it he will be knocking on your door

Ashley Thomey

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

Anonymous

Love keeps on expecting the best! because love keeps on trusting God even when the right choices you make don't turn out the way you want them too! Submitted by Victoria

Anonymous

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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 Baldwin

I think I would rather possess eyes that know no sight, ears that know no sound, hands that know no touch than a heart that knows no love.

Anonymous

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Rose Dorothy Franken

Where you find true friendship, You find true love.

Anonymous

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

August Strindberg

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

George Jean Nathan

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

William Carlos Williams

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

A Haiku Verse

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

St. Macarius of Egypt

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

John Milton

when someone becomes to hard to love you have two choices you eaither stop loving them or you love them a whole lot more

unknown

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

 Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

St. Jerome

 Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Dr. Karl Menninger

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon

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.

St. Teresa of Avila

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them.

Robert Bridge

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Williams Childs

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles

Dorothy Debolt

Nature loves a burst of energy.

Boe Lightman

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

Lavina Christensen Fugal

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life

Lydia Maria Child

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

 What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

Anonymous

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Baronne Anne Louise de Sta l Sta l

to find a heart is to loose a heart

shelby miller

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.

Anonymous

 Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.

Greg Evans

 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Anonymous

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Karl A. Menninger

 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Mangnu Hirschfield

 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Mangnu Hirschfield

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Mark Van Doren

 It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.

Anonymous

 In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

Marcel Proust

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

 But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning; Never sick, never old, never dead; From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raliegh

 I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Ivan Sergeevich

  If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

W. Somerset Maugham

  If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Anonymous

  Love and you shall be loved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Lord Dewar

  Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end, always found with no regrets, forever valued and kept treasured.

Anonymous

 Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

 Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within

James Baldwin

  Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

Woodrow T. Wilson

1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Amy Vanderbilt

  The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection   that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

George Orwell

  The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

Ouida

  Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.

Goldie Nash

 Didn't even knew what love meant before she appeared in my life. Only know I understand that great love does not consist neither of dependency to a person, nor of selfishness, but is much more than this. It is like when you immerse in the eternity of your own soul, in that place which you think belong only to toy, but where you meet the other. Only there you feel her deep look and you realize that you are eternally present in her soul and in her most private parts of her being. You realise that nothing matters, not to cry, not to shout. You realize that everything there is and everything there will be does not even exist, are not worth the smallest leaf which fell from the tree of the live of each one of us. And then you feel the need to touch the soul with your hand, to embrace it, to feel its breath, to know it closer to you than you are yourself. You want to kiss it, to share your entire life with it. Love has such an impact that you understand that it is much above what you call life, Then you realise that no matter how much you try to embrace it, and kiss it, and feel its breath, all that can never be done, because you kill kiss only the man, you will feel his breath and embrace it. You will realize that that soul will be much above your life. As you are above hers. You will understand that being with that soul is not possible through caresses, not word, nor kisses, but much more, though an unprecedented torment that you will not be able to sustain, no matter how much you want it, as it is so painfully sweet, a consuming fire that will burn in you in all the eternal moment of your life. And what else remains? What remains in my place and in hers? The ashes of a memory? From which a new love will resurrect as the Phoenix bird? From the ashes of this crazy torment? This is our life, the life of the soul mates, of always seeking one another and when they find each other they consume with the love of their love.

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

  Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family. Having both - is a blessing.

Donna Hedges

 However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Fran ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

  It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Jewish Proverbs

Sayings of Jewish Origin

 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

Bible

Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

 Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

1881-1955, French Christian Mystic, Author

 Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything

Anonymous

  Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Mangnu Hirschfield

 Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

Dan Greenburg

  Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

  Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian

  Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Rose Pastor Stokes

 There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

  you know it is love when you look into his eyes and forget your own name!!

alisha carleston

  You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.

Anonymous

 Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

  Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

Fran ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Richard Bandler

American Therapist, Co-founder of NLP

  I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

David Bissonette

  Love is not blind, it sees but it doesn't mind.

Rizi Jane Baldon

 Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life.

Anonymous

 Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Guy De Maupassant

1850-1893, French Writer

True love knows no league.

Amy Butler

  We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Thomas Szasz

1920-, American Psychiatrist

 You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss 

American Writer and Cartoonist, b. 1904-1991

  It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

BC 87-54, Roman Lyric Poet

Edna Ferber

  Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Anonymous

 Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.

Anonymous

 One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy softens more hearts than tears do.

Mme. de Sartory

The chains of love are never binding as when the links are made of gold.

Royall Tyler

 To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

C.S. Lewis

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Marie E. Eschenbach

  Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Japanese Proverbs

Sayings of Japanese Origin

  All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Fran ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

  Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Mao Zedong

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

James Russel Lowell

 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Albert Einstein

1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

 Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

1894-1961, French Author

 Oh Dear God! Why wouldn't you allow those two consuming fires to be only one? Why do you allow only fires aliens of each other to unite? Why God? 

I look even know deep in the eyes of my soul mate, in the eyes that were so stranger to me at the beginning. 

I feel it is above me, above my being, that my life has no meaning, but I also know that being together would kill us, because we would burn each other, as we both are much above the life of the other! We are like the poles of a magnet which attract themselves because they are opposite, but if they were united the magnetism would disappear. 

This is why we will always attract ourselves seeking us in the other until death will make us forget each other in the instant of an eternal moment. Let's not forget that that moment too, no matter how eternal it is, is just a moment and nothing else. What about then? 

Then will we seek each other restlessly again, in the infinity where we where born to die again, still wrapped in this cloak of vanity, of the impossibility of ever becoming close?

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Plato

 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

  To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Fran ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Henri B. Stendhal

1783-1842, French Writer

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love.

Saint Alfred

  Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russel Lowell

  drink to me only with thine eyes

william shakeaphere

  Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Fyodor Dostoevski

1821-1881, Russian Novelist

 Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Anonymous

  Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time

Kamila

  Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

  Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

David Steindl-Rast

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William E. Gladstone

 You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael

  Everyone wants to hear I Love You but what they want more is for it to be true when you say it

Christine Justice

 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need; by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use. In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose, With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath. Smiles, tears, of all my life! And, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. There's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them and then you never know where the hell you are. - The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

  Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

St. Bernard

1090-1153, French Theologian and Reformer

 Love can hope where reason would despair.

George, Lord Lyttleton

  Love is willing to wait instead of demanding,prove you care. Submitted by Victoria

Anonymous

 Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

 The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

George T. Hewitt

True love is knowing a person's faults, and loving them even more for them.

Mandy Hampton

 Two hearts, two minds, in time did find one love, one aim two paths the same. Hold fast. . . and love will last.

Matt Buttram

  When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Anonymous

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

John Maxwell

 A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

Mae West

1892-1980, American Actress

  A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Thomas Moore

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well

Mary Cholmondeley

  Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana

  He who is not impatient is not in love.

Italian Proverbs

Sayings of Italian Origin

 IT IS OUR FIRST LOVE THAT WE WILL USE TO GUAGE ALL OTHERS.

MATTHEW CARUSO

SIMPLE MAN

  Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

  Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

Alfred Stuart, Jr.

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Stephen F. Gaskin

 There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Fran oise d'Aubign  Maintenon

There is no age limit for romance.

Greg Evans

American Writer 1978-

 There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

Dean Koontz

 There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

1922-, American Novelist

 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

  It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

George Mcdonald

  day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Bengali Hymn

 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

 Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

1822-1896, French Writers

 Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.

Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

 A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Percival Arland Ussher

 Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Leigh Hunt

Love wouldn't be blind if the Braille weren't so damned much fun.

Anonymous

  A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Michael Garrett Marino

  A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Woodrow Wyatt

 I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you.

Grace Fallow Norton

 To love a women, is to know a womens wants and her needs without her ever saying a word.

A. Jenkins

 All the positions, fortunes, celebrities disappear as a snow flake that melts on the black asphalt of death. So does beauty too. 

And what else remains if not the piece of love that once existed in this great il or in this dream called life?

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

  If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Louise L. Hay

American Metaphysical Teacher, Lecturer, Author

 In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

French Proverbs

Sayings of French Origin

 Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

Alfred Stuart, Jr.

 We need not think alike to love alike.

Francis David

 "Love is not something you did it is something you do"

Chelsey E

A quote to live by.

 A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Andrew Matthews

American Artist, Cartoonist, Author

  He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, 'Dust to dust,' some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, 'I'll be waiting for you in heaven---with a gun. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Jack Handey

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Thomas p Kempis

1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

 I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White

I spent my last wish on you, and now I don't know what to do...

Carl Stoynoff

poet/philosopher

 Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Daphne Rose Kingma

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Bible

Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

  I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

D.H. Lawrence

 Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

  The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

Charles Mathias, Jr

 To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Rita Mae Brown

1944-, American Writer

 When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

Martin Gore

  When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Ernest Becker

1924-1974, American Psychologist, Cultural Anthropologist

  If you love someone, put their name in a circle; because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.

Anonymous

  Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

W. Somerset Maugham

1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

 Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.

Bernard Grasset

 A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Woodrow Wyatt

1918-, British Journalist

 At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Jean De La Bruyere

1645-1696, French Writer

 Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Henry Louis Mencken

 Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

Will Moss

Real love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

1936-, American Author

 Respect is love in plain clothes.

Frankie Byrne

True love is the parent of humility.

William Ellery Channing

1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Elbert Hubbard

 Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

St. Bernard

1090-1153, French Theologian and Reformer

 The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

There is but one genuine love-potion - consideration.

Menander

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Japanese Proverbs

Sayings of Japanese Origin

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

R. D. Laing

1927-1989, British Psychiatrist

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Benjamin Franklin

 When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

Jerome Klapka Jerome

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.

Bible

Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

Nelson Boswell

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Veda Upanishads

c. BC 800-, Hindu Poetic Dialogues On Metaphysics

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Orison Swett Marden

1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.

John Wayne Schlatter

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress

William Blake

 Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

  Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

T. S. Eliot

1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.

Justine Milton

 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

 The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.

Henry Louis Mencken

 The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Source Unknown

 I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

1789-1849, Irish Writer and Socialite

 A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

Helen Thomson

  At last I know what love is really like.

Virgil

 I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band 'Be kind to one another.' This is the Golden Rule of Marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.

Randolph Ray

 Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through death, expecting you… 

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

 Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.

William Blake

  Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

 My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Jim Fox

 Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

 Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

British Author

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

  If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Edgar Watson Howe

1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

 Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

  Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

American Author

  All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792-1822, British Poet

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum

 If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

Anonymous

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

Walter J. Lippmann

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

 To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charlie Brown

Peanuts Comic Strip Character

Paradoxically, all these wonderful dimensions that we want for our being are completely missing, being a hope, a dream about the perfection of the being. 

Then this hope and dream of perfection is materialized in the vision we have on our soul mate. 

Moreover, if we are under the impression that we know what we would want as perfection, it always remains a mere false impression and nothing more, because then the event of a Great Love occurs, we realize that what we thought to be perfection is false, and the novelty of the new imagine on the perfection embodies by the lover makes us feel that intense feeling of suffocating love, precisely because we find our new standard for perfection, which becomes this way superior to the old one. 

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.

Polish Proverb

 The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they re still alive

O.A. Battista

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

Edward Thomas

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

Jewish Proverb

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women. -

Marion Smith

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Mao Zedong

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

John Oxenham

Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.

J. Ghetto

bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Thomas Merton

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

St. John of the Cross

1542-1591, Spanish Christian Mystic and Poet

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl A. Menninger

1893-1990, American Psychiatrist

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

Leo Buscaglia

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

George Jean Nathan

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Samuel Osgood

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine de Saint-Exup ry

You can always create your own experience of life in a beautiful and enjoyable way if you keep your love turned on within you- regardless of what other people say or do.

Ken Keyes

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Rose Franken

No matter how hard it is, true love is also the result of an accident in the dream of our life, and that accident is an event that happens in our soul. 

This event can be in another transcendental reality a volcano, a butterfly, a mountain or any other possible image we cannot even imagine.

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mahatma Ghandi

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Fr. Jerome Cummings

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Erich Fromm

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.

Andre Gide

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all

Mahatma Ghandi

My beloved is only water, which is always flowing, and doesn't deceive, which is always flowing, and doesn't change, which is always flowing, and doesn't end.

Juan Ram n Jim nes

Simply put, Love is like a hand-grenade. If you don't throw it away from you as fast as you pull the pin, there is a 99.9% certainty that you are going to get hurt.

Matt V

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Kahlil Gibran

1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Fr. Jerome Cummings

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

1881-1955, French Christian Mystic, Author

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.

Eleanor Roosevelt

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

Marie-Antoinette, Queen

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

Miguel De Unamuno

1864-1936, Spanish Philosophical Writer

Let's commit the perfect crime, I'll steal your heart and you'll steal mine.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Source Unknown

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives

Father Andrew

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

Victor Hugo

 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1875-1926, German Poet

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

George Jean Nathan

Each soul which believes it is its own eternal evil will eternally seek its good, but the great paradox is that in order to find each other one should look for the Good and the other for the Evil because they cannot both have the same sense because they are the opposite of each other. 

The soul mates cannot have the same sign, but, in order to be pairs, they will have to attract, and of they both were Good, they would reject. 

Thus, every soul mate is the opposite of the other one. 

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

he innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

Jewish Proverb

 Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

  We were lost and dead in sin. We were by nature objects of God's wrath. But God Loved us! That Love caused Him to do something about our situation. God is rich in mercy, so He made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. God acted on His Love for us and saved us by His Grace! Grace is the result of the actions of His Love. The remarkable thing about His Grace is that He didn't ask us to do anything but believe Him. God didn't ask us to perform some great deed. He didn't demand obedience from us before He would save us. God made us alive with Christ 'even when we were dead in transgressions and sins.' God is showing the universe 'the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.' (Ephesians 2:7) God was Kind to us 'in' Christ because He Loved us.

Mark McGee

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

Madame Neckar

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exup ry

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson

 What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Marina Tsvetaeva

1892-1941, Russian Poet

When you go somewhere your heart goes with you, But when you leave your friends their heart goes with yours.

Emma Oliver

You will know the real meaning of love when you fall in love.

A.Terance Dinesh

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Jalal ud-Din Rumi

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Catherine II of Russia

Catherine II

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

Julius Henry Marx

 The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Edward M. Forster

1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

Whoso loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Jalal-Uddin Rumi

1207-1273, Persian Sufi Mystic Poet

 Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

Alfred Stuart, Jr.

 Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1828-1882, British Poet, Painter

  My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Princess of Wales Diana

1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

 The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

 We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

Pablo Neruda

  Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions? - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Jack Handey

  Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

 To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Marguerite Duras

1914-, French Author, Filmmaker

 Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

John Donne

  A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Sir James M. Barrie

1860-1937, British Playwright

Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

 The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

George Moore

 The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

William Wordsworth

 A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Frank Tebbets

  But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

1853-1890, Dutch-born French Painter

 To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

 A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao-Tzu

 Come, let us make love deathless.

Herbert Trench

  Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.

Paul Verlaine

 How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.

Thomas Campbell

 I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Princess of Wales Diana

1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

  Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy

 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Fr. Jerome Cummings

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

Michio Kushi

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Love alone could waken love.

Pearl S. Buck

1892-1973, American Novelist

Even though I have not loved from the beginning this wonderful soul, even though I have long disappointed and tortured it with my apparent instability, I have come to understand that when you do not seek you will find and when you do not love from the beginning you will live the greatest love, that will become the love of your life. 

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

A heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverbs

Sayings of Greek Origin

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Thomas p Kempis

1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense

Mark Overby

We all search for love beacuse it is the closest thing to magic. And when i found you i thought that nothing could compare. That is why whatever may happen you must have faith in that one person, and never let go of your true feelings.

anyomous anyomous

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

Adlai Stevenson

No sooner met but they looked; No sooner looked but they loved; No sooner loved but they sighed; No sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mahatma Ghandi

I shall always be a priest of love.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.

Shusha Guppy

 To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

Baroness Orczy

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Gary Zukav

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

God made many puzzle pieces, but only those two 'cut out' for each other, can fit together to create a perfect and beautiful picture.

Jessica Cochran

Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through death, expecting you  

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

 Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Leo Buscaglia

American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Jalal-Uddin Rumi

1207-1273, Persian Sufi Mystic Poet

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

1892-1950, American Poet

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Paul Bourget

1852-1935, French Novelist

God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' Christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us.

Mark McGee

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates

1938-, American Author

 When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?

Wolf and Page 

 A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Jean Paul Richter

1763-1825, German Novelist

 I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 I love you. I call you. I always seek you in my heart. Now that I found you, what else can I say, maybe the most painful adieu in my entire life, my beautiful, adored, consuming soul mate.

I would like to hug you, but I know I cannot touch what is above me, above my life, above this piece of breath, and I am so alien to my self. 

I know you are the one that can bring me out from the alienation I am in, that you are my only truth for which I exist in this world. I also know that without you, the entire world would fall apart, but it as true that beside you, the entire world would be consumed and what remains then? 

I also know that the ineffable destiny will always keep the doors opened as if there would be any meaning as long as no one can go out through them. 

This is a vanity too. It is also a vanity the fact that all the opposites attract and all the things that go in the same sense reject. 

Thus Good will always be attracted by Evil, and Evil by good and the good of Good will be precisely the Evil while the good of Evil what we understand through Good. 

The soul mates are as the pair of Good and Evil.

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Maureen Duffy

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Should I understand that love is the reverse of out life, that it is death? 

That we live in this life in which we hope to have the chance to love, so to die? Let me drink from the glass of your voluptuousness down to the depths of my being so that I can die! 

Despite all that, I will always love you, my sweet and wild angel of the destiny of my life. Wherever I will be in this world, I will carry you in my thoughts and speak to you where no one can ever ever ever come in! 

Now you understand, my great love, now you understand why we must talk only there and never somewhere else?

Because we are condemned to be soul mates that had the misfortune of recognising each other in this world of vanity. 

Always keep your head up in life, even when you will feel lonely because I am and I will always be with you, even when our bodies will be dust and ashes for a long time, even when the oceans will dry up and the water of life will be long drunken by the vanity of this world. 

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

 I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Vita Sackville-West

 I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Princess of Wales Diana

1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

  Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

H. L. Mencken

1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

 The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

George Moore

 The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Lao-Tzu

 There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Fran ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

  This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1875-1926, German Poet

 We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Adrienne Rich

1929-, American Poet

 Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis.

 I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves...

V. Sackville-West

 SOMEONE AsKED ME: SO, "WHY DO U Like Him SO MUCH?" BUT BEFORE I COULD EVEN REPLY; MY BEST Friend PUT HER HAND OVER MY MOUTH AND Said: "DON'T EVEN GET HER STARTED" 

ally qwerty

 I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Socrates

BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

  Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

H. L. Mencken

1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

 Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792-1822, British Poet

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

Barry Morris Goldwater

  This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

  We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

 Why was I so blind that I couldn't see our love was changing underneath our very noses.

Jessica Sharp

 A heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

  A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Clare Boothe Luce

1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

  I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

George Sand

1804-1876, French Novelist

 Out of the three gifts of faith, hope and love, the greatest of all is love. Corinthians 13:13

BIBLE

 To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Henry Louis Mencken

  We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte-Melville

 We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Ronald David Laing

 But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever

Robert Burns

  It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Fran ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Albert Einstein

 People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Leonardo Da Vinci

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

  We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility.

W. H. Auden

You're nothing short of my everything.

Ralph Block

 People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Marcel Proust

1871-1922, French Novelist

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

1819-1881, American Author

  To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Victor Hugo

1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

  You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Albert Einstein

1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

 Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

 Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Source Unknown

 Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like nobody's watching. Submitted by Jessica Brown

Anonymous

  Come out of the circle of time / And into the circle of love.

Jalal ud-Din Rumi

 Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango.

Srzgarakarika 

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

 Love brings pain, And Pain brings beauty. 

Leilana Lynn

Just a Person

 If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

1922-, American Novelist

Love is bittersweet, its up to u to make it bitter or sweet.

 Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

Libbie Fudim

 The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Orlando A. Battista

 A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

1852-1933, Irish Writer

 Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

King Soloman

 Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

1881-1955, French Christian Mystic, Author

 There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

  A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

William Butler Yeats

1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

  I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

George Eliot

1819-1880, British Novelist

 In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

John Boyle O'Reilly

 Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.

J. Isham

 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 Baldwin

  Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Germaine Greer

1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

  To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

 when you are always on my mind and my heart hurts when you are gone what is it that i feel, if it is not love

naomi kay

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

Clive Staples Lewis

 A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan P. Smith

 By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

W. Somerset Maugham

 It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Source Unknown

 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

William Shakespeare

  Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves? 

Why don't they want to admit that they would want to love with their entire being because this is everything that remains out of this vanity called Life? 

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

 Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.

Hoosier Farmer

 Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain

Leo Buscaglia

  A in a mans life is a state of mind, it keeps changing.

Shahazad

  I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.

Song of Solomon 

  Love is fun but, it is not going to pay the bills.

Jessica Martin

 For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

Malcolm Gladwell

 If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

 The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

George Meredith

1828-1909, British Author

  To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

1899-1986, Argentinean Author

  The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Kahlil Gibran

1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

 The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

 True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Jack Handey

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown Jr

 When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

Gretchen Kemp

 The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

Sir Hugh Walpole

 In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.

Bliss and Cerney 

  Love is like a game of chess: One false move and you're mated.

Anonymous

Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.

Arnold Daly

 Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Dorothy Parker

1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

  True love never dies, even if you have found a new love, the sweet memory of the past will continue to hunt you for the rest of your life.

Jeffrey

 You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Herman Hesse

 Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. - Maker of the Simpsons

Matt Groening

LOVE: He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein

  Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.

Eve

 Love is stronger than violence.

Hermann Hesse

1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

  Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

1809-1892, British Poet

 If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet

  A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner

1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian

 Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

 Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

Joan Vinge

 Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

Judith Viorst

  Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

 There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Marcus Valerius Martial

40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

 These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

John Milton

1608-1674, British Poet

My heart is a red rose. When happy, it sparkles brillianly. When sad it bleeds and forms a dark puddle under it. When my heart dies, the soft fragile petals fall. So you might want to put your rose in a vase." 

Claire Charmont

Love specialist 

  If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

 Platonic love is love from the neck up.

Thyra Smater Winsolow

 I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed

Plato

 'True love' isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially --even, or perhaps especially, when you don't feel like it.

William R. Mattox, Jr.

When you feel like falling down, don't give up. Try again."

Samantha Smile

 Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Robert Lee Frost

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

  Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Thomas p Kempis

1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

 All the little emptiness of love!

Rupert Brooke

1887-1915, British Poet

  I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

James Joyce

1882-1941, Irish Author

 The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Erich Fromm

  "what has faded, is already lost"

Joe Duket

 All fair in love and war.

Francis Edward Smedley

 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.

Anonymous

 Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

1942-, American Author

  Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Rupert Brooke

1887-1915, British Poet

 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninger

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Barbara De Angelis

American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Baronne Anne Louise de Sta l Sta l

A simple I love you means more than money.

Frank Sinatra

  For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere...

George Gershwin

 Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist

 Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms Without the aid of the seasons.

Kahlil Gibran

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Kahlil Gibran

1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

 Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Christopher Leach

American Poet

  Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri-Fr d ric Amiel

 Paradise is always where love dwells.

Jean Paul F. Richter

  Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

  Love is the only gold.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

1809-1892, British Poet

I think about you in every moment and every image of you hurts me horribly. I want to feel every thought, every whisper you say in the deep silence of the eternity of you soul. To be able to cry in me, beside you, beside me in you, to be able to understand why our hearts beat, why we live among moments and not among eternities as if it were different. 

To be able to understand every smile which breaks in my just like a wave, which finally breaks against the cliff of my eternity through the blood of my ancestors as my misconducts break in your eternity and that of your ancestors.

And they want to tell you how much I love you, how much I adore you in this vain world. 

I know we will never be able to look in the eyes, but only in the hearts.

I know they beat against the infinite precisely because they beat even though we both want the infinite and its truth. Any beat opposes the infinite because it measures an infinity, even if it is finite. And then? 

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

 Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

  Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Joseph Alsop

 I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Christopher S. Drew

 I adore him  I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Princess of Wales Diana

1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

 Love is like a Rhino, short-sighted, but always willing to find a way.

Anonymous

 A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; to an old maid, charity.

V. P. Skipper

 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Harold Lokes

 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

  Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Judith Guest

 There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

1613-1680, French Classical Writer

 Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Louis Ginsberg

My life revolves around love.

Greg Evans

American Writer 1978-

John Lennon said All you need is love, John obviously never met my bank manager. 

Danny McCrossan

Northern Irish Comedian

 A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

Bruce Friedman

  Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

George Jean Nathan

 Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa

 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

  My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.

Ibn Abbad

 It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

F Scott Fitzgerald

 I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

William Hazlitt

1778-1830, British Essayist

  I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Mother Teresa

 In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Henri B. Stendhal

1783-1842, French Writer

 God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer

 I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

 Love is not something that you can put chains on and throw into a lake. That's called Houdini. Love is liking someone a lot. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Jack Handey

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Hannah Arendt

1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

 Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Thomas p Kempis

1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exup ry

  And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

James Joyce

  It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Euripedes

  Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. Mark 10:9

BIBLE

 Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4

BIBLE

  It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1819-1892, American Poet

 Pushing away doesn't cause things to come together, all it causes is for things to be pushed away.

Shea McCullagh

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Violet Trefusis

 Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.

Anonymous

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

August Strindberg

  If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Source Unknown

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Lord Byron

1788-1824, British Poet

  The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

 Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Leo Buscaglia

American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author

  Conquer the devils with a little thing called love!

Bob Marley

1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

 A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

Latin Proverb

 A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Turkish Proverb

  Love would never leave us alone.

Bob Marley

1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

  Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Ernest Hemingway

1898-1961, American Writer

  If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 I love him but he dosen't see that we can be!!!

allison brookshire

in love......... for real!!!

 When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.

French Proverb

 Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

Swedish Proverb

 I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin'.

Bob Marley

1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

 The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

Lionel Richie

Do not cry, because we are destiny, because we are everything that can be above this world. And now, the angel of my life, please let me fly so that I can fulfil the vanity of this world, of this dream, of this nightmare that eternally took you from me. 

I didn’t thought you will come now at this age and time of this Illusion of Life, but between these bars I tell you how much I love you and do not ever doubt me. 

I will be yours in every moment of this life, which I give to you. .

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

  Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Myrtle Auvil

 I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.

Bob Marley

1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

 Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

1832-1888, American Author

 Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet

  My love for you will never break.. even when im old and gray!

Alli Anotomous

  We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Germaine De Stael

1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist

 The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Barbara De Angelis

American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

  The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Vincent Van Gogh

1853-1890, Dutch Painter

 We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Proverb

 The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

1853-1890, Dutch Painter

 A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Henry Fielding

1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

 Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

1613-1680, French Classical Writer

 My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

 None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

  Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

  You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Henry Brooks Adams

  A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

  Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy

Gordon William Allport

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Life, the gift of nature Love, the gift of life A Kiss, the gift of Love.

Anonymous

 Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Barbara De Angelis

American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

  We must love one another or die.

W. H. Auden

1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

 Love at first sight is possible, but it pays to take a second look.

Anonymous

  Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Source Unknown

  Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

 Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Ayn Rand

1905-1982, Russian Writer, Philosopher

 Love is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.

Anonymous

 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.

Friedrich Nietzsche

1844-1900, German Philosopher

 I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

1809-1892, British Poet

 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

 I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960

John Lennon

  You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Edward Flaherty

 Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

 First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

  I WANT TO FALL FOR YOU BUT IM NOT SURE YOU WILL CATCH ME?

PAM ROX

 One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Shirley Hazzard

1931-, Australian-born American Author

 A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Maya Angelou

1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

  In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Henri Frederic Amiel

1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

  It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.

Irish Proverb

 Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

Mark Overby

 Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

 Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

  I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

  One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Sir Edwin Arnold

1832-1904, British Poet, Journalist

 Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Miguel De Cervantes

1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

 In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

  Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

 Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

 Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Rev. Dale Turner

American Minister

  "My heart is a red rose. When happy, it sparkles brillianly. When sad it bleeds and forms a dark puddle under it. When my heart dies, the soft fragile petals fall. So you might want to put your rose in a vase." 

Claire Charmont

Love specialist 

 The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon

1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

  We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

Brian Andres

 The bravest thing that men do is love women

Mort Sahl

 Falling in love is so hard on the knees.

Aerosmith

  The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Source Unknown

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

  Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

 don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Nikki Giovanni

 If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

1613-1680, French Classical Writer

 Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given.

Mother Teresa

 Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

 At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

Source Unknown

 Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Sir Thomas Malory

1430-1471, British Author

  We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

  For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

 Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

Sir Thomas Malory

1430-1471, British Author

 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise L. Hay

American Metaphysical Teacher, Lecturer, Author

  To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

H. L. Mencken

1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

 One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Miguel De Cervantes

1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

  Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Thomas p Kempis

1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

  There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

1613-1680, French Classical Writer

  Is a life worth living, without no one to love and to be loved in return?

Zena Joy Pym

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am nothing special of this I am sure. I am just a common man with common thoughts. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, that has always been enough. 

Nicholas Sparks

The Notebook- Noah

 Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Anonymous

 Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Robert Sexton

  Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Elizabeth Browning

  To the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world.

UNKNOWN 

 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

Mae West

It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands.

Jaka 

 The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Josiah G. Holland

 Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

David B. Haight

  If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

  If you're looking for love in these eyes, walk away. I've been blinded before!

Carl Stoynoff

poet/philosopher

 We can cure physical diesases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love>

Mother Teresa

  You know you're in love when reality is finally better than your dreams.

Unknown 

 To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.

Anonymous

 To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Source Unknown

  The greatest thing you ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.

Moulin Rouge 

 True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well being of ones companion.

President Gordon B. Hinckley

 She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright. Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Byron 

The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most.

kati tgj

 You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Brian Ferry

  Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.

French Proverb

 when some one says they love u it just means they love u for that day the next day they could be running away with your best friend!

kassy kind

 BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THEN TO HAVE NEVER LOVED AT ALL

HEMMINGWAY

 The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

  Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Pauline Thomason

 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.

Lisa Moriyama

 He who is not impatient is not in love.

Italian Proverb

  love is a flint that sparks a flame that will either flicker and burn out or continue with a warming glow

Anonymous 

 Live the life you've dreamed

Henry David Thoreau

Gravity is not to blame for two people falling in love.

Unknown Unknown

  Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

 To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

 Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

Gordon B. Hinckley

 If hate is such a strong word, then why do wetoss around love like it's nothing?

Anonymous 

 Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate.

Anonymous

  First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

George Bernard Shaw

1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me

Marlene Dietrich

EVERY WOMEN HAS THE EXACT LOVE LIFE THAT SHE WANTS."

UNKNOWN UNKNOWN

WRITER FROM "THE WEDDING DATE"

 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

1903-1960, American Novelist

  She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

  Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

William Shakespeare

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Heinlein

1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

 We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

Brian Andres

  If you judge people, you have no time to love them

Mother Teresa

  The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

1613-1680, French Classical Writer

 love is like crushing your heart into dust,but within that particles of dust lay the love that will always be for you...

gas arevalo

  When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.

Robert Bridges

1844-1930, British Poet

 I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her...

UNKNOWN 

"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."

Dr Seuss

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.

Anonymous

If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.

Anonymous

 if i has to choose between loving you, and breathing. I would use my last breath to say I LOVE YOU.

dani b

  Some of the greater things in life are unseen thats why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream...

Anonymous 

  As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you.

Karen Clodfelder

 The best thing about me is you.

Shannon Crown

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

Roy Croft

 Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Curtis Judalet

  We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.

Unknown

  If you love someone you would be willing to give up everything for them, but if they loved you back theyd never ask you to. 

Anonymous 

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

Anonymous

 Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

  If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.

Anonymous

  If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

 And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Anonymous

This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love

Anonymous

I self destruct every relationship so that i don't get hurt... but in truth i just hurt myself worse in the long run..

Anonymous

 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus

 If rain drops were kisses,I could send you showers. if hugs were seas i send you oceans. and if love was a person i send you me!!

ally qwerty

 The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

 They say loving you gives pains and full of sacrifices But I'll rather take pains and lots of sacrifices than not to be love by you.

Aaron

  The couple that fights the most is the one most in love... it shows they care enough to notice the other one screwed up and care enough to mention it to the person so they can fix it. When you stop fighting it means you stopped caring.

Shawna Waltemyer

single divorced mother of 2

 Don't let someone become your everything, because when they're gone you have nothing! 

Kenya Mitchell

life

 What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

St. Augustine

354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

  Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

Love is never wanting to lose faith, never wanting to give up, and never truly moving on. Love is knowing and praying in the deepest part of what's left of your heart that they feel the same. 

CourtneyJo Wright

17 year old girl

  Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful.

Anonymous

 I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.

Colin Raye

 Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

John Lennon

1940-1980, An English member of the  Beatles , a songwriter, and a political activist.

  Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

Friedrich Halm

 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Anonymous

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

Herman Hesse

  Absence makes the heart grow fonder

william shakespeare

 I get the best feeling in the world when you say hi or even smile at me because I know, even if its just for a second, that I've crossed your mind.

UNKNOWN 

 Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.

Anonymous

 LOVE: We think about it, Sing about it, Dream about it && Loose sleep worrying about it. When we don't know we have it, we search for it. When we discover it, we don't know what to do with it. When we have it, we fear loosing it. It is the constant source of pleasure and pain. But we don't know which it will be from one moment to the next. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define && IMPOSSIBLE to live without.

Unknown Unknown

 Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Rose Franken

I dont know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every part of my body is broken too. 

Chloe Woodward

 A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.

Marilyn Monroe

American Singer 1926-1962

  Love is like a war:Easy to begin Hard to end!

ancient Proverbs

 The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in.

UNKNOWN 

Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship united forever in love.

Anonymous

  Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

 What can the love in my soul be compared to another wonderful soul which is so far and yet so close of my self? 

What can this symbiosis between two souls can be? 

What can love be when you feel you cannot sleep at night, that every drop of dew becomes a crystal in your heart, when every breeze of wind has magical meanings? 

What can love be when you feel that you want nothing more in this world that to be with the soul you love? 

But what can love be in other transcendental realities? What about our souls? 

Are our souls a waterfall, a true Niagara or a smile, a flirt of an angel? Are our souls a mere mood of a fairy or a lightening in a summer rain?

Our souls could be all of this and much more. But what really happens in that transcendental reality when we feel we are truly in love, that we love so much that it hurts? That the air in the room is unbreathable, that the sentimental, spiritual or physical distances kill us? What happens when dawn find us sadder than ever, looking for an excuse or an argument for the person we love so much, our Great Love? What are all thses? What are the looks lost in the desert horizons of unfulfilment or those in the eyes that deeply loose each other in the others inside the souls?

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

  If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm, and You are the music.

P!nk 

 The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

You being in my arms, heart by heart feels like our love would never end.

Valentin Gonzalez

"When life gets rocky, crumble away the burdens of lies, fear, and doubt." 

Claire Charmont

Love specialist 

  Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

Anonymous

  Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Anonymous

 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Miguel de Cervantes

 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Fr. Jerome Cummings

  Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Anonymous

Love is the river of life in the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

  Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.

Anonymous

 Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Source Unknown

  The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W Somerset Maugham

  The image of the tormented man is taken and reproduced in the dirtiest political ways by the institutions of the church, and through this image they squeeze money and a part of the souls of the people in order to convert them to a faith that no longer is part of the ultimate form of man’s love, to faith of the obedience to groupings, official, governmental or any other occult institutions and hierarchies. 

The church stole the image of the Crucified Christ, which is the image of the holiness of man because it wanted this image precisely due to the fact that man found himself again in it. 

Church found itself that much in this image that it reached the ultimate stage of man’s love, holiness. 

Then it could have been a favourable moment to reunite man with his Sacred Self, if this image would have not been stolen from the man by the church and subsequently institutionalized, becoming eventually the image which will enslave man. 

Sorin Cerin

philosopher

 A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd walk through a garden forever.

Anonymous

  Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Henry David Thoreau

1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Never frown, even when you're sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

Anonymous

  You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Saint Francis de Sales

 Absence from the person you love is only healthy in theory.

Greg Evans

American Writer 1978-

 An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a realtionship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it take two wholes.

Patricia Fry

  As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.

Anonymous

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

  I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

Anonymous

  Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

1929-, American Author

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

 The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Persian Proverb

 The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters

Henry Louis Mencken

  We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach

 Each successive phrase of our life leads toward a shared future where our climaxes, stumbles, codas, and masterpieces unravel from our dreams like a song that was always half-written in our souls, until this day.

Julie Rearick

American writer, singer, & accountant, 1972-

  Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Samuel Johnson

1709-1784, British Author

 As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know!!

Anonymous

  Love doesnt give up just because someting goes wrong or because your feelings are hurt.God is in charge, so those who love just keep on loving. Submitted by Victoria

Anonymous

  Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

J.C. Powys

 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

 Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

John Donne

1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet

  Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

Susanne Millen

 That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

  The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?

Simone Weil

 To love is natural. To understand the variations of love is wisdom.

Anonymous

 Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

Augusta E. Rundell

 Love creates an us without destroying a me.

Anonymous

  Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

Ken Keyes

  Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Robert Green Ingersoll

1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer

 There is no remedy for love but to love more

Henry David Thoreau

 What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love.

 Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

-Abraham Crowley

"So much of what we know of love we learn at home."

-unknown

"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."

-unknown

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."

-unknown

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."

-Saint-Exupery

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

-William M. Thackeray

"Don't forget to love yourself."

-Soren Kierkegaard

"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."

-Unknown

"Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!"

-Unknown

"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."

-Alicia Barnhart

"You call it madness, but I call it love."

-Don Byas

"Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived."

-Unknown

"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes."

-Buddha

"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."

-Unknown

"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less."

-Will Moss

"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest."

-Unknown

"The eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!"

-Margaret Atwood

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."

-Unknown

"Within you I lose myself

Without you I find myself

Wanting to be lost again."

-Unknown

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

-Shakespeare

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."

-Unknown

"We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives."

-Unknown

"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."

-Kaleel Jamison

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."

-Karen Casey

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

-Mother Theresa

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."

-Benjamin Franklin

"Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop." -- Anonymous 

"We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first." -- Anonymous 

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -- Anonymous 

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." -- G. K. Chesterton 

"Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words." -- Fr. Jerome Cummings 

"Where there is love there is life." -- Gandhi 

"We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." -- William Gladstone 

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." -- Victor Hugo 

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." -- Lao Tzu 

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." -- François de La Rouchefoucauld 

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." -- Michael Leunig 

"The heart has reasons that reason cannot know." -- Pascal 

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." -- William M. Thackeray 

"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." -- Agnes Repplier 

"And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead." -- Philip Robison 

" 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850 

"Love without reason lasts the longest." -- Unknown

"Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there." -- Otomo No Yakamochi 

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. 

* Thomas Mann 

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. 

* W. Somerset Maugham 

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. 

* Thomas Moore 

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. 

* George Jean Nathan 

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. 

* Friedrich Nietzsche 

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. 

* P. J. O'Rourke 

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, 

Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. 

* Ovid 

We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. 

* Blaise Pascal 

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, 

Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. 

* Alexander Pope 

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. 

* French Proverb 

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. 

* Bertrand Russell 

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. 

* William Shakespeare 

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; 

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. 

* William Shakespeare 

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. 

* William Shakespeare 

The course of true love never did run smooth. 

* William Shakespeare 

They do not love that do not show their love. 

* William Shakespeare 

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. 

* Madame De Staël 

'Tis better to have loved and lost 

Than never to have loved at all. 

* Lord Tennyson 

There is no remedy for love but to love more. 

* Henry David Thoreau 

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. 

* Leo Tolstoy 

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. 

* Voltaire 

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. 

* Marianne Williamson 

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. 

* Thomas Mann  

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. 

* W. Somerset Maugham  

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. 

* Thomas Moore  

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. 

* George Jean Nathan 

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. 

* Friedrich Nietzsche  

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. 

* P. J. O'Rourke  

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, 

Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. 

* Ovid  

We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. 

* Blaise Pascal  

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, 

Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. 

* Alexander Pope  

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. 

* French Proverb  

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. 

* Bertrand Russell  

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. 

* William Shakespeare  

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; 

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. 

* William Shakespeare  

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. 

* William Shakespeare  

The course of true love never did run smooth. 

* William Shakespeare  

They do not love that do not show their love. 

* William Shakespeare  

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. 

* Madame De Staël  

'Tis better to have loved and lost 

Than never to have loved at all. 

* Lord Tennyson  

There is no remedy for love but to love more. 

* Henry David Thoreau  

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. 

* Leo Tolstoy  

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. 

* Voltaire  

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. 

* Marianne Williamson 

Katherine Hepburn

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Sir Winston Churchill

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl. No superior alternative has yet been found.

Plato

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

Robert Browning

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Emily Bronte

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Carl Jung

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Leo Tolstoy

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Mark Twain

To get the full value of joy

You must have someone to divide it with.

William Shakespeare

I love thee, I love but thee

With a love that shall not die

Till the sun grows cold

And the stars grow old.

Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

No, this trick wont work. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Mark Twain

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

-Ingrid Bergman

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

-John Donne

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

-Benjamin Franklin

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

-Henry Ward Beecher

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."

-Joseph Conrad

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

-La Rochefoucauld

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

-Christopher Marlowe

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

-Houssaye

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."

-La Bruyere

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

-St. Augustine

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

-Les Miserables

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

-Alexander Smith

"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."

-La Rochefoucauld

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

-Charles Caleb Colton

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

-Lawrence Durrell

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."

-La Rochefoucauld

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

-Stendhal

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

-Thoreau

"Blushing is the color of virtue."

-Diogenes

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."

-Leo F. Buscaglia

"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."

-Dr. Karl Menninger

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."

-Mother Theresa