Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life
-Smiley Blanton
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
-Buddha
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
-James Baldwin
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
-Anonymous.
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Hellen Keller
Hope is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all.
-Emily Dickinson
"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me."
-Sloan Wilson
"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers."
-Kahlil Gibran, "Beauty"
"Hey, I don't need no advice from a pinball machine. I'll have you know, I wrote the book on love."
-Moe Szyslak, The Simpsons
"All mankind love a lover."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Where there is love there is life."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
-Anais Nin
"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
-Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."
-Sidney Poitier
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Theresa
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished."
-Og Mandino
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo
"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity,
all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
-Lydia Maria Child
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
-Bertrand Russell
"Do all things with love."
-Og Mandino
"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name..."
-William Shakespeare
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
-Emily Dickinson
Love means never having to say you're sorry."
-Erich Segal
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough.
But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes
steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong
"Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is."
-Virgil
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
"Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness.
When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep."
-William Butler Yeats
"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
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it,
you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
-J. Krishnamurti
"Who mocks at music mocks at love."
-William Butler Yeats
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
-Victor Hugo
"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Captive King"
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; But sometimes it is letting go."
-Hermann Hesse
"The line between love and obsession Is drawn by only circumstance."
-Anonymous
"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks
, With silken lines, and silver hooks."
-John Donne, "The Bait"
"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"
"I don't understand how someone can MAKE love without BEING in love."
-Tereza, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"
"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove."
-Christopher Marlowe
"In every living thing there is the desire for love."
-D.H. Lawrence
"Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul."
-Anonymous
"Hearts are not to be had as a gift, Hearts are to be earned..."
-William Butler Yeats
"A heart that loves is always young."
-Greek proverb
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
-Victor Hugo
"For Love is Immortality."
-Emily Dickinson
"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart."
-Melanie Griffith, Milk Money
"I promised her my eternal love, and I actually thought that for a couple of hours."
-Vicomte de Valmont, Dangerous Liaisons
"The richest love is that which lasts through time apart to someday be together."
-Anonymous
"For in the face of heartbreak, I look up and realize it is self inflicted."
-Anonymous
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age."
-Jeanne Moreau
"Love asks me no questions, And gives me endless support..."
-William Shakespeare
"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine."
-Ben Jonson, To Celia
"It's not missing you that kills me ... It's knowing i once had you in my life that does. "
-Anonymous
"No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong "
-Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind
"I've met another man. He's the best man I've ever met. He's bright, handsome and he's crazy about me. And, he's
married. There's only one thing; he doesn't like my hat."
-Sabina, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
-Robert Browning
"Women, are a map, Avik. You've got got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take."
-Walter Russell, Map of the Human Heart
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
-Anonymous
"Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important."
- Lisa Hoffman
"I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?"
-John Donne
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
-Benjamin Franklin
"You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way. "
-Barbara Bush
"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."
-François De La Rochefoucauld
"I have had no true friends, only lovers."
-Pablo Picasso
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand."
-Mother Teresa
"I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The
exultation floods me."
-Emily Dickinson
"While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is
the exultation of love."
-William Butler Yeats
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
-David Grayson
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
-Joseph Conrad
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
-William Shakes
