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"Love is an irresistible
desire to be irresistibly desired."
- Robert Frost
"The best and most beautiful
things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the
heart."
- Helen Keller
"For it was not into my ear
you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my
soul."
- Judy Garland
"Love is an energy which
exists of itself. It is its own value."
- Thornton Wilder
"Love sought is good, but
given unsought is better."
- William Shakespeare
"There is nothing holier in
this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of
its silken wings."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Love is composed of a single
soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle
"There is no remedy for love
but to love more."
- Thoreau
"Where there is love there is
life."
- Gandhi
"There is always some madness
in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Men always want to be a
woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
- Oscar Wilde
"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."
-1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"There is only one happiness
in life: to love and be loved."
- George Sand
"Being deeply loved by someone
gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu
"The most eloquent silence;
that of two mouths meeting in a kiss."
- Unknown
"The best feelings are those
that have no words to describe them...."
- Michelle Hammersley
"Love is a little haven of
refuge from the world."
-Bertrand A. Russell
"The most precious possession
that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart."
- Timothy Titcomb (J.G. Holland)
"Love doesn't make the world
go 'round; love is what makes the ride whorthwhile."
- Franklin P. Jones
"Love builds bridges where
there are none."
- R.H. Delaney
"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
"Talking of love is making
it."
- William G. Benham
"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."
- Maulana Jalalu'd din Rumi
"I love you, not for what you
are, but for what I am when I am with you."
- Roy Croft
"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
"You don't marry someone you
can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
- 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
"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
"You come to love not by
finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
- 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."
- Leo Buscaglia
"You love simply because you
cannot help it."
- Kim Anderson
"Love is the life of the soul.
It is the harmony of the universe."
- William Ellery Channing
"You will find as you look
back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments
when you have done things in the spirit of love."
- Henry Drummond
"A woman has got to love a bad
man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one."
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
"Love is, above all, the gift
of oneself."
- Jean Anouilh
"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
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Love is not a matter of counting the years ... But making the
years count. -- Michelle Amand
Love is a look that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that
shuts the spring of Love. Robert Greene
Love and desire are the spirits wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from
life. John Oliver Hobbes
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another
and feeling his delight as our own. Emanuel Swedenborg
Love is a beautiful dream. - William Sharp
Those who love deeply never grown old; they may die of old
age, but they die young. Arthur Wing Pinero
We were two and had but one heart. Francois Villon
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at
all. -- Samuel Butler
I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its
coming with all my heart. -- Alice Walker
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
~ by Alexandrea to Nicholas III ~
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 ~
Love is the mortar that holds the human structure together.
Karen Casey
He is not a lover who does not love forever. -- Euripides
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming
out.
~ by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) ~
There is no remedy but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
As I continue my talks with her, I become aware that, in my
heart, a window is opening. Akhito, Crown Prince of Japan
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 ~
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life
into a golden haze. -- Elynor Glyn
There is no remedy for love but to love more. -- Thoreau.
Real love stories never have endings. -- Richard Bach
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be
a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is to love and be loved in return.
~ From "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming
out. -- Elizabeth Bowen
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this
world Is a woman's heart. -- Josiah G. Holland
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