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Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ----- Ovid

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One man all by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world. ----- Hans Margolius

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is love. ----- Sophocles

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. ----- Andre Gide

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ----- Leo Buscaglia

Presence is more than just being there. ----- Malcolm S. Forbes

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! ----- Leo Buscaglia

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. ----- Anonymous

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. ----- Mother Teresa

So long as we love we serve;/ So long as we are loved by others,/ I would almost say that we are indispensable;/ And no one is useless while they have a friend. ----- Robert Louis Stevenson

Some gifts are big, others are small. Gifts from the heart are the best gifts of all. ----- Anonymous

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. ----- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me who you love, and I'll tell you who you are. ----- Creole proverb

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ----- William Wordsworth

The best proof of love is trust. ----- Joyce Brothers

The best things in life aren't things. ----- Art Buchwald

The bravest are the tenderest. ----- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ----- Allan K. Chalmers

The greatest possession we have costs nothing, it's known as love. ----- Brian Jett

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom. ----- John Gray

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. ----- Albert Einstein

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. ----- Willa Cather

Who so loves believes the impossible. ----- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. ----- Tove Jansson, Tales from M

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get. ----- Robert Collier

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 God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art. ----- St. Francis De Sales

You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God's wise plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in his sight. ----- The Bible, Malachi 2:15

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ----- Henry Drummond

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ----- Philip Massinger

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. ----- Doug Larson, United Featur

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ----- Bertrand Russell

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ----- Donald Laird

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. ----- Clyde Campbell

To live without loving is not really to live. ----- Moliere

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ----- William M. Thackeray

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world ----- Anonymous

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love. ----- Tom Hannah

If you love the life you live, you will live a life of love. ----- Anonymous

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. ----- Benjamin Franklin

Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you." ----- Erich Fromm

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. ----- Thomas Carlyle

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. ----- Harriet Lerner

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it. ----- Robert Collier

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life. ----- Anthony Robbins

I've decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ----- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. ----- Mother Teresa

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love. ----- Zig Ziglar

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side. ----- Zig Ziglar

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ----- Beverly Nichols

May they who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength. ----- The Bible, Judges 5:31

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. ----- Oscar Wilde

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. ----- Alice Munro

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. ----- Mary Kay Ash

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? ----- Lee Iacocca

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. ----- Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. ----- Garrison Keillor

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. ----- Henry Ward Beecher

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. ----- Mother Teresa

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them. ----- Abraham Lincoln

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

And I saw a river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was "suffering". And then I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was "love." ----- St. John Of The Cross

And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course. ----- Kahlil Gibran

And we are put on Earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love. ----- William Blake

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ----- Plato

Be still when you have nothing to say. When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. ----- D. H. Lawrence

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ----- Lao Tzu

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. ----- Henry David Thoreau

Love gives itself; it is not bought. ----- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only what you are expecting to give. ----- Katherine Hepburn

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ----- Voltaire

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it. ----- Emily H. Sell

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. ----- Euripides

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ----- Peter Ustinov

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. ----- Erich Fromm

Love is infallible; it has no errors, for all errors are the want of love. ----- William Law

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. ----- June Masters Bacher

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less ----- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love. ----- Mother Teresa

Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. ----- The Bible, 1 John 3:18 NRS

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it-drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. ----- John Ruskin

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ----- Kahlil Gibran

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ----- William Shakespeare

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. ----- Barbara DeAngelis

Love and you shall be loved. ----- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ----- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men. ----- George Burns

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. ----- Charles "Tremendous" Jones

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied. ----- James Allen

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ----- Sir James M. Barrie

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. ----- A. W. Pinero

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. ----- Buddha

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ----- Joseph Addison

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. ----- Norman Vincent Peale

Time heals what reason cannot. ----- Seneca

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ----- William Hazlitt

By love serve one another. ----- Galatians

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever. ----- Lao-Tze

Do all things with love. ----- Og Mandino

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

Expect the people you love to be better. It helps them to become better. But don't get upset when they fail. It helps them keep trying. ----- Anonymous

Give all to love; obey thy heart. ----- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear. ----- Simeon Ben Eleazar

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end. ----- George Bush

Love is not getting, but giving ----- Henry Van Dyke

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ----- William Shakespeare

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. ----- Vincent Van Gogh

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. ----- Wayne Dyer

Love is the beauty of the soul. ----- St. Augustine

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness. ----- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ----- William Shakespeare

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love. ----- Kahlil Gibran

Love rules without rules. ----- Italian proverb

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts; then it is real and pure. ----- Mother Teresa

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. ----- Og Mandingo

Two human loves make one divine. ----- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. ----- Benjamin Disraeli

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ----- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Were it not for hope the heart would break. ----- Scottish Proverb

We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. ----- Gloria Gaither

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. ----- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ----- Helen Keller

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. ----- Lao Tzu

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ----- John Ruskin

He whom love touches not walks in darkness. ----- Plato

Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on. ----- Lord Byron

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. ----- Billy Graham

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. ----- Albert Camus

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ----- Henry Ward Beecher

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ----- Booker T. Washington

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. ----- Ayn Rand

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ----- Winnie the Pooh

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. ----- Kahlil Gibran

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart. ----- Orison Swett Marden

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. ----- Charles H. Perkhurst

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. ----- Pascal

The love we give away is the only love we keep. ----- Elbert Hubbard

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. ----- Carolyn Heilbrun

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. ----- Victor Hugo

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked. ----- Pablo Casals

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ----- G. K. Chesterton

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ----- George Sand

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ----- Morrie Schwartz

Your heart is my piñata. ----- Chuck Palahniuk

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned. ----- William Somerset Maugham

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

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ----- Mother Teresa

You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all she's left. Your heart can be empty because you can't see her, or you can be full of the love you shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember her only that she is gone, or you can cherish her memory and let it live on. You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she'd want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on. ----- David Harkins

One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else. ----- Anonymous

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. ----- Anonymous

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. ----- James Earl Jones

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with. ----- Anonymous

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. ----- Anonymous

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will. ----- Anonymous

Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you. ----- Anonymous

Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are. ----- Anonymous

Love is just love, it can never be explained. ----- Anonymous

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. ----- Johnny Depp

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. ----- Anonymous

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel. ----- Anonymous

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. ----- Roger Ricafort

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. ----- Sempai Ragenil

Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear. ----- Roger L. Ricafort

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. ----- Anonymous

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. ----- Anonymous

True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars. ----- Anonymous

The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything to get in your way. ----- Anonymous

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.” ----- Anonymous

You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time. ----- Anonymous

When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever. ----- Anonymous

The one who loves you will make you weep. ----- Anonymous

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. ----- Anonymous

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ----- Anonymous

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

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. ----- Anonymous

Do not love me because i love you, love me for loving me. ----- Anonymous

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel. ----- Anonymous

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ----- Gary Zukav

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ----- Mother Teresa

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ----- Albert Einstein

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ----- Jonathan Carroll

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ----- Ovid

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 is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ----- W. Somerset Maugham

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-Exupéry

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ----- Malagasy Proverb

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her. ----- Anonymous

For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ----- Rosemonde Gerard

Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ----- Sandra J. Dykes

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

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 - 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 is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ----- Proverb

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ----- Theodor Reik

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ----- William Shakespeare

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. ----- Albert Ellis

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ----- Michael Leunig

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ----- Boethius

Who, being loved, is poor? ----- Oscar Wilde

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ----- Henry David Thoreau

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ----- Laurence Marks

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ----- Frank A. Clark

Shall we compare our hearts to a garden - with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds, swooping birds and sunshine, rain - and most importantly, seeds. ----- Grey Livingston

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ----- Robert Heinlein

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

We loved with a love that was more than love. ----- Edgar Allan Poe

If I love you, what business is it of yours? ----- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ----- François Duc de La Rochefo

My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day. ----- Jessie B. Rittenhouse

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ----- Alexandra Penney

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ----- Jean Anouilh

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ----- Bill Balance

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

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ----- Ben Hecht

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn’t put there to stay - Love isn’t love 'Til you give it away. ----- Oscar Hammerstein

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

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ----- Henry Van Dyke

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ----- Judith Viorst

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ----- Ice T

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ----- Lord Dewar

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ----- Natalie Clifford Barney

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ----- John Bulwer

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ----- Lord Byron

A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you. ----- Anonymous

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. ----- Anonymous

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ----- Lynda Barry

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ----- Oscar Wilde

Love is not singular except in syllable. ----- Marvin Taylor

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ----- John Ciardi

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ----- Douglas Yates

Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. ----- Hannah Moore

Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ----- Henry Timrod

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ----- Robert Browning

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ----- Leo Tolstoy

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ----- Marguerite de Valois

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ----- Werner Erhard

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

Love me and the world is mine. ----- David Reed

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. ----- Paul Valéry

The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ----- Tom Masson

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and no moon above. ----- Anonymous

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ----- David Byrne

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ----- Robert Frost

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ----- Zora Neale Hurston

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ----- Emily Brontë

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ----- Portuguese Proverb

Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May? ----- James J. Walker

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ----- Honoré de Balzac

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. ----- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is the poetry of the senses. ----- Honoré de Balzac

Love is a game that two can play and both win. ----- Eva Gabor

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ----- Anonymous

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. ----- Francis Quarles

Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. ----- Paul-Jean Toulet

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ----- Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ----- François, duc de La Rochef

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ----- George Herbert

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ----- Christopher Paul Rubero

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ----- Latin Proverb

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ----- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun. ----- Charles Hanson Towne

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ----- Nicholas de Chamfort

Love is not consolation. It is light. ----- Friedrich Nietzsche

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ----- Erich Segal

Loving is never a waste of time. ----- Astrid Alauda

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ----- Fyodor Dostoevski

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. ----- William Butler Yeats

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

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

Love is being stupid together. ----- Paul Valery

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. ----- Charles Baudelaire

Open your heart and take us in, Love - love and me. ----- W.E. Henley

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ----- Rita Rudner

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. ----- Charles du Bos

I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you. ----- Pixie Foudre

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ----- William Carlos Williams

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency. ----- Gilbert Parker

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ----- Blaise Pascal

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ----- William Shakespeare

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. ----- Bruce Lee

Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: - So many times do I love again. ----- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. ----- French Proverb

True love stories never have endings. ----- Richard Bach

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. ----- Antonio Porchia

There's nothing more freeing than the shackles of love. ----- Emma Racine deFleur

Platonic love is love from the neck up. ----- Thyra Smater Winsolow

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ----- Tom Robbins

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ----- Margaret Atwood

You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ----- Anonymous

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ----- John Milton

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ----- Zelda Fitzgerald

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ----- V.F. Calverton

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ----- Anonymous

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. ----- Alan Zweibel and Jessie Ne

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate My sole mate 'tis my soul mate. ----- Pixie Foudre

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ----- Victor Hugo

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ----- Pablo Picasso

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That'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 half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. ----- J.D. Salinger

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

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ----- Pearl Bailey

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ----- Germaine Greer

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

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ----- William Shakespeare

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ----- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is metaphysical gravity. ----- R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is my religion - I could die for it. ----- John Keats

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

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

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

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ----- Anonymous

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ----- Anonymous

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ----- Kay Knudsen

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ----- Henry Louis Mencken

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ----- Anonymous

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ----- Anonymous

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. ----- Anonymous

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

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

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

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 is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ----- Julins Gordon

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

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

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

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ----- Oscar Wilde

Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light. ----- Grey Livingston

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ----- Mignon McLaughlin

Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ----- Samuel Lover

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ----- Lisa Simpson

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ----- Emma Goldman

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ----- Thomas Moore

Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ----- Don Foster and Susan Beave

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ----- Emma Goldman

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ----- Miguel de Unamuno

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ----- Michel de Montaigne

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ----- Javan

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ----- Armistead Maupin

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ----- Francesca M. Cancian

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

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ----- Claudia Ghandi

Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ----- Aerosmith

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ----- Hans Nouwens

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ----- Marcel Proust

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ----- G.K. Chesterton

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ----- Bill Watterson

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ----- George Bernard Shaw

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

[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ----- Nora Ephron