What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~ George Eliot
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
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. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. ~ Mother Teresa
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. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
~ Og Mandino
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
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.~ Marguerite De Valois
All love that has not friendship for its base,is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~ 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.
~ Germaine De Stael
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.~ Germaine De Stael
The loving are the daring.~ Bayard Taylor
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.~ Mother Teresa
The only gift is a portion of thyself.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
~ William Wordsworth
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.~ Robert Browning
Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand: The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
~ UB40
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other,
each is enriched by the other.
~ Felix Adler
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.
~ Steve Winwood
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. ~ Cathy Carlyle
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There?s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self...
this is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others' love to us.
~ Thomas Trahern
Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
~ Leo Buscaglia
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
~ William Thackeray
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. ~ Fulton J. Sheen
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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. ~ Elbert Hubbard
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. ~ Victor Hugo
There is no instinct like that of the heart. ~ Lord Byron
We are all born for love...it is the principle existence and it's only end.
~ Disraeli
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell
We can only learn to love by loving. ~ Iris Murdoch
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive,
which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
and tied with love.
~ L.O. Baird
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife
or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
~ Mother Teresa
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
~ Anne Dillard
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones
The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity-love. And the story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ~ Helen Hayes
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
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It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.
Glenway Wescott
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It is not only necessary to love, It is necessary to say so.
French proverb
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katherine Hepburn
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Love is great when you find someone to give it to.
Chris Myrick
Chris Myrick
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Love is neither true or false, love is love.
Camilla Saunders
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love is painful that is true not to love is painful too; but there is a greater pain: to love and not be loved again
John Fussle
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
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Love is unconditional. . . Relationships are not.
Grant Gudmundson
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Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely.
anonymous
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Men are always sincere. They change sincerity, that's all!
Tristan Bernard
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My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
Omar Kyyam
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No-one is ever betrayed by true love.
Jaufré Rudel
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize.
Edmund Spenser
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Reason and love are sworn enemies.
Corneille
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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.
unknown
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Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
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The heart has it's reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
Thomas Moore
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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.
Francis William Bourdillon
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The speech of someone in love bores everyone except the loved one.
unknown
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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
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There is nothing like love in this world unless you experience
This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
Petrach
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To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson
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To lose your love is to have lived a thousand lives, and have them end all at once.
Rock
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You're not the only one who feels this way.
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight
Christopher Marlowe
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
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… if you love somebody, tell them.
Rod McKuen
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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
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin proverbs
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A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love.
W.B. Yeats
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A smile is nearly always inspired by another smile.
anonymous
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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
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A thing of beauty is joy forever.
John Keats
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ("Histoire amoureuse des Gaules")
Christopher
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Absence sharpens love, but presence strengthens it.
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All you need is love.
John Lennon
All you need is love.
John Lennon
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And the trouble is if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?
Wu Ti
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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
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For those who love... time is eternity...
Henry Van Dyke
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Max Jacob
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
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I could do without many things with no hardship--you are not one of them.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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I don't make you feel special, I just remind you that you are special.
David F. Sims
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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
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may not be a smart man but I know what love is.
Forrest Gump
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I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.
Robert Tizon
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If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
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If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with a little rain!
Dolly Parton
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In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love.
George Gordon Lord Byron
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In women everything is heart, even the head.
J.P. Richter
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles "Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John Tarrant "We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni "Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker "Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe "To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken "Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong
"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum "Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker "Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman "Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous "Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke "Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud "Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain "Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde "A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov "Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." - unknown "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm "In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram, Iowa Quad Cities Times "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning
"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 Parker
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."
- Dorothy Parker
"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." - Woody Allen,
