Love
"For twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul." --Judy Garland
"Love is patient, love is kind. Love never fails. These three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is Love." --Saint Paul
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistible desired." --Robert Frost
"Doubt the stars are fire. Doubt the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love." --William Shakespeare
"Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars." --Victor Hugo
"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
"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
"And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin." --Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
"People who throw kisses are mighty, hopelessly lazy." --Bob Hope
"Did my heart love 'til now? Forswear it sight, for I never saw true beauty 'til this night." --William Shakespeare
"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is Angelic." --Alphonse De Lamartine
"I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have the faith needed to move mountains-but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned-but if I have no love, this does me no good." --1 Corinthians, 13:1-13
"Love is the sweetest of dreams, and the worst of nightmares." --from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Love is the binding that holds you to your dreams. Love does not come over you, rather you choose to love. Only when you choose to love one forever and you stand by that dedication of love will you truly love for life and live happily ever after."
"Let men beware of causing women to weep; God counts their tears." --Hebrew Proverb
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." --Aymes Repplier
"Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever." --Andrew Lloyd Webber
"A life’s worth, in the end, isn’t measured in hours, or dollars. It’s measured by the amount of love exchanged along the way" -- Douglas C. Means
"The essential sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them." --Unknown
"Where there is love there is life." --Mahatma Ghandi
"Life is a flower of which love is honey." --Victor Hugo
"I love thee with all thy breath, smiles, tears of all my life." --Elizabeth Barret Browning
". . . Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love"-- M. Scott Peck, M.D.
"I don't feel in the least bit humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may be large, but they can not think or love; and these are the qualities which impress me far more than size does." -- FP Ramsey
"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality." --Victor Frankel
"Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life."--Auguste Rodin
"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime." --Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." --Jacques Benigne Bossuel
"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears." --Woodrow Wyatt
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." --William Makepeace Thackeray
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." -Sophocles
"There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies" --Franççois de La Rochefoucauld
"Age does not protect us from love, but love to some extent protects us from age." --Unknown
"Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?" --Henry Finck
"A simple ‘‘I love you’’ means more than money...." --Frank Sinatra
"It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, But you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: Love is eternal." --E.M. Forster, A Room With a View
"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver." --Barbara De Angelis
"Life without love is like a tree Without blossom and fruit" --Kahlil Gibran
"The magic of first love Is our ignorance That it can never end." --Unknown Author
"Give me my Romeo and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars
And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night" --William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove." --Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593
"Speak of me as I am... One that loved not wisely but too well" --Othello Act 5:340-346
"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
"A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man Would sleep on a board" --D.H.Lawrence
"No matter where you go, However far away, A part of me will be with you And a part of you, with me, will stay" --Unknown Author
"I don't want too much love... Just a steady supply." --Unknown Author
"When you love someone, All your saved-up wishes start coming out." --Elizabeth Bowen
"When it comes down to it, we all just want to be loved." --Jamie Yellin
"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration, of another’’s personhood." --Karen Casey
"Henceforth there will be such a oneness between us that when one weeps, the other will taste salt." --Anon
"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And some people still wonder why some are afraid when they are told they are loved." --Anon
"To love another person is to see the face of God." --Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
"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
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." --James Baldwin
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls." --John Donne
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same." --Anon
"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 on to 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
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands." --Alexander Penney
"Too many of us stay walled in because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care as much or not at all." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart." --Phyllis Theroux in House Beautiful
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. " --Goethe
"Only two kinds of people can talk without inhibitions- strangers or lovers. Everyone in between is just negotiating." --James Grippando
"Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves." -- Gerry Spence
"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance." --Maurice Wagner
"Love is only for the young, the middle-aged, and the old." --anonymous
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." --Amy Carmichael
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand." --Mother Theresa
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." --Victor Hugo
"The roots of the deepest love die in the heart if not tenderly cherished." --Von Herder
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." --Goethe
"Don't marry someone you can live with. Marry someone you cannot live without." --Josh McDowell
"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
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories." --George Elliot
"Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath" --Eve Glicksman
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." --Aristotle
"The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze." --Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." --Emily Bronte
"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that is has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now say that two beings have fallen in love because the have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only...Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark." --Victor Hugo
"What love is: It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter" --Charles Dickens
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