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Love, Romance and
You Know What!
Lovers
Perfect
love is rare indeed … 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
To
be a lover is not to make love,
but to find a new way to live.
Paul La Cour
The
gratification of the senses soon becomes a
very small part of that profound and complicated
sentiment which we call Love. Love, on the contrary,
is a universal thirst for a communion, not merely
of the senses, but of our whole nature, intellectual,
imaginative and sensitive. He who finds his antitype,
enjoys a love perfect and enduring; time cannot
change it, distance cannot remove it; the sympathy
is complete.
Benjamin Disraeli - Henrietta Temple
You
give me thoughtful gifts -- sugar almonds,
a Vivaldi album, white home-grown chrysanthemums
for my bedside table, a surprise walk through the
bluebell woods. But the best thing is when I surprise
you deep at work or you spot me in a crowd and your
eyes light up with pleasure. For me, the best thing is
to know how much you love me.
Helen Exley
He
who loves with purity considers not the
gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Thomas á Kempis
My
lover is mine and I am his.
Old Testament - Song of Songs
Lovers remember all things.
Ovid - Heroides
A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy
Ay
me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer-Night's Dream
Lovers
beneath the singing sky of May
They wandered once; clear as the dew on flowers:
But they fed not on the advancing hours:
Their hearts held cravings for the buried day.
Then each applied to each that fatal knife,
Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!-
In tragic hints here see what evermore
Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force,
Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse
To throw that faint thin line upon the shore!
George Meredith - Modern Love
The
quarrelling of lovers is the renewal of love.
Terence
It
is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than
to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
Helen Rowland
If
you shall find my lover, what shall you
say to him? Tell him I am sick with love.
Old Testament - Song of Songs
Lovers
who have nothing to do but love each other are not really
to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.
Walter Lippmann
Essentially
man is not a slave either of himself or of
the world; but he is a lover. His freedom and
fulfilment is in love, which is another name for
erfect comprehension. By this power of
comprehension, this permeation of his being,
he is united with the all-pervading Spirit, who is also
the breath of his soul. Where a man tries to raise
himself to eminence by pushing and jostling all
others, to achieve a distinction by which he prides
himself to be more than everybody else, there he is
alienated from that Spirit.
Rabindranath Tagore - Sadhana
The
more we permit the lover to know us, the more
worthy of his love we become; as his searching gaze
probes even deeper into our personality, he discovers
riches of which no-one else was ever aware and in
which we scarcely dare to believe. But, because he
sees within us, we actually become the good that he
sees. By reinforcing the very tentative inclinations of
the beloved, the lover actually creates his beloved.
We become that which the lover wants us to be, and he
becomes that which we want him to be. When he
reacts positively to our tentative, fragile, yet
courageous self-revelation, with warmth and
affection and encouragement, we discover resources
in ourselves of which we had always dreamed
but whose reality we could not believe. The lover,
in other words, is a person who makes our dreams
about ourselves come true.
Andrew M Greeley - The Friendship Game
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