Every love quote i own
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open
--Sir Rabindranath Tagore Thakur (1861-1941)
Love many, trust few but always paddle your own canoe!
--Unknown
I love being alive and will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. I will seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.
--Duane Allman
Life is to be fortified by many friendships - to love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existense.
--Sydney Smith
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
--Fr. Jerome Cummings
The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
--Nat King Cole
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
--Charlie Brown
Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
--Anonymous
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
--Jean Anouilh
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
--Willa Cather (1876-1947)
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
--Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
Love is a little blind. When we love someone dearly, we unconsciously overlook many thoughts.
--Beatrice Saunders
Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care.
--Carl S. Avery
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
--David Wilkerson
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
--John Powell
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
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
The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously
--Helen Gurley Brown
Lovers, like bees, lead a honey-sweet life.
--Graffiti on a wall of Pompeii
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; Even love unreturned has its rainbow
--Eaton Stannard Barret
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God
--Mary Manin Morrissey
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
--Carl Jung
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
--Diane Arbus
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
--Goncourt
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
--Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as a act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception
--Harold Loukes
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations
--Kahlil Gibran
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is miracle.
--Marianne Williamson
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
--Sophocles
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
--Mother Teresa
My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night But ah, my foes and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light!
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
--Rob Cella
Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole
--Tea Rose
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
--Kent Nerburn
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
--Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.
--Michael (John Travolta) Michael
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
--Sigmund Freud
If you would be loved, love and be lovable
--Benjamin Franklin
This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you love the good that you see in another, you make it your own.
--Saint Gregory The Great
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
--Elbert Hubbard
There is nothing more important in life than love.
--Barbara Streisand
The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt
--Anonymous
Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
Love is merely the exchange of two illusions and the contact of two skins
--Chamfort
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
--Robert Frost
For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.
--David Myers Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
--James Baldwin
Nothing is lovely without love itself, and nothing is lovlier than love itself.
--Devan Penegar
It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
--Margaret Kennedy
The magic of the first love is the ignorance that it can never end.
--Disraeli
Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.
--Kimberly Kirberg
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
--C.S. Lewis
All you need is love.
--John Lennon
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
So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.
--George Santayana
Love is like a bed of roses, there are many thorns. The path to true happiness lies in learning to avoid the thorns, while enjoying the roses.
--Lillian Carol Russell
What force is more potent than love.
--Igor Stravinsky
A good love is delicious you can't get enough too soon.
--Jewel Kilcher
A day without love is a day without life.
--George Van Valkenburg
The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else.
--Unknown
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
--Theophile Gantier
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
--Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
--Mother Teresa
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
--William Shakespeare
I have never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love-plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing-turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, could not use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness
--Elizabeth McCracken
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
--John Donne
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
--Erica Jong
Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.
--Tom Wilson
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
--Henry David Thoreau
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
--John Lennon
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
--Greg Anderson
There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
--St. Augustine
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
--Francois Mocuriac
Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.
--Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
--Unknown
One advantage of marriage It seems to me Is that when you fall out of love with him Or he falls out of love with you It keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.
--Judith Viorst
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
--Mozart
Love teaches even asses to dance.
--French Proverb
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
--Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit
Love your enemies. It really pisses them off!
--Unknown
To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.
--Mary Baker Eddy
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
--Matt Groening
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love I gain nothing 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 perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
--1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never
--Charles Caleb Colton
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
--Helen Rowland
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
--Mother Teresa
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
--Rabrindranath Tagore
Sometimes I find myself making love to my own misfortune.
--Norma O. Abrego
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.
--Mary Manin Morrissey
We must love one another or die
--W.H. Auden poem - September 1, 1939
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to b and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.
--Helen Keller
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
--Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love. (He may have gotten it elsewhere.)
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
--Walt Disney
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
--Charles Dickens
Sometimes it hurt more then we can bear.If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace..but we would be hollow..Empty rooms shuttered and dank.Without passion we'd be truly dead
--David Boreanaz - Angel" in ((Passion)) (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
I don't know what you are talking about and i don't care.I'm talking about watching my lover die.
--Sarah Michelle Gellar "Buffy" in ((Graduation Day Part 2)) (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
--Barbara DeAngelis
Where does the family start ? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
--Sir Winston Churchill
The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.
--Keith Sullivan
Platonic love is like an inactive volcano.
--Andre Pevost
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
--Sir James M. Barrie
If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it.
--Rabert A. Henlein Lazarus Long
I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate - but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza.
--Alf Whit
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
--Anatole France
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
--Mother Teresa
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
--Philip Barry
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
--Bertolt Brecht
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
--Unknown
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
--Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)
What we love to do we find time to do.
--John L. Spalding
The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.
--Brian Tracy
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love, And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear
--George Eliot
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path
--Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
--Henry Ward Beecher
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
--Leo Buscaglia
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
--Elbert Hubbard
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
--Kahlil Gibran
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love
--Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive
--Havelock Ellis
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.
--Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich's ABC, 1962
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world
--Unknown
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as a act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception
--Harold Loukes
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations
--Kahlil Gib
--Rob Cella
Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole
--Tea Rose
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
--Kent Nerburn
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
--Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.
--Michael (John Travolta) Michael
The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else.
--Unknown
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
--Theophile Gantier
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
--Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
--Mother Teresa
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
--William Shakespeare
I have never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love-plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing-turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, could not use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness
--Elizabeth McCracken
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
--John Donne
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
--David Grayson
And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.
--Kahlil Gibran The Prophet (1923)
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be don
--Helen Hayes
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
--Gordon William Allport
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love
--Mahatma Gandhi
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
--Karen Sunde
They do not love that do not show their love.
--John Heywood (1497?-1580?)
There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
--Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) US playwright
The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone.
--Fred Small Everything Possible
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
--Alfred de Musset
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
--H. L. Mencken
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open
--Sir Rabindranath Tagore Thakur (1861-1941)
Love many, trust few but always paddle your own canoe!
--Unknown
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
--Carl Jung
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
--Diane Arbus
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
--Sigmund Freud
If you would be loved, love and be lovable
--Benjamin Franklin
This have I know the exchange of two illusions and the contact of two skins
--Chamfort
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
--Robert Frost
For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.
--David Myers
There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
--St. Augustine
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
--Francois Mocuriac
Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.
--Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
--Unknown
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
--Mother Teresa
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess
--Rainer Maria Rilke
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes.just be an illusion.
--Javan
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.
--Melanie Clark
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.
--Nikki Giovanni
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your life depends on it; and when the time comes, to let go.
--Mary Oliver
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
--Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above its strength.
--Thomas A Kempis
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
--Lady Murasaki
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
--Mignon McLaughlin
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
--Jule Renard
Falling in love is like being struck by lightning. You can no more make it strike you than you can avoid it.
--Indy (Sean Patrick Flannery) Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great
--Translation of Bussy-Rabutin’s quote in French (from his book La Vie Amoureuse des Gaules - The Love Life of the Gaules):
"L'absence est à l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent;
Il éteint le petit, il allume le grand."
I love being alive and will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. I will seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.
--Duane Allman
Life is to be fortified by many friendships - to love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existense.
--Sydney Smith
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; Even love unreturned has its rainbow
--Eaton Stannard Barret
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God
--Mary Manin M --Beatrice Saunders
Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care.
--Carl S. Avery
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
--David Wilkerson
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
--John Powell
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
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
The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously
--Helen Gurley Brown
Lovers, like bees, lead a honey-sweet life.
--Graffiti on a wall of Pompeii
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus (1913-1960)
Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.
--Sharon Salzberg
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-183 direction to goodness...Love will never die
--Bryce Courtney
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
--Katherine Hepburn
Love without return is like a question without an answer
--Unknown
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A man is a little thing when he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
--Henry Drummond British Clergyman
L'amore platonico ` un vulcano inattivo.
--Andre Pevost
One good thing about internet dating: you're guaranteed to click with whomever you meet.
--Mongo
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
--Lord Dewar
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...
--Emmet Fox
Love is being stupid together.
--Paul Valery
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
--Franklin P. Jones
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
--James Baldwin
Nothing is lovely without love itself, and nothing is lovlier than love itself.
--Devan Penegar
It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
--Margaret Kennedy
The magic of the first love is the ignorance that it can never end.
--Disraeli
Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.
--Kimberly Kirberg
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
--C.S. Lewis
All you need is love.
--John Lennon
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and fee for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
--Erica Jong
Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.
--Tom Wilson
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
--Henry David Thoreau
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
--John Lennon
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
--Greg Anderson
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
--Goncourt
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
--Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
--Mother Teresa
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
--Rabrindranath Tagore
Sometimes I find myself making love to my own misfortune.
--Norma O. Abrego
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.
--Mary Manin Morrissey
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.
--Helen Keller
The most difficult thing to explain in life is the simplest truth called LOVE.
--Ramanathan Srinivasan
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
--Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love. (He may have gotten it elsewhere.)
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
--Barbara DeAngelis
Where does the family start ? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
--Sir Winston Churchill
The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.
--Keith Sullivan
Platonic love is like an inactive volcano.
--Andre Pevost
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
--Sir James M. Barrie
If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it.
--Rabert A. Henlein Lazarus Long
I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate - but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza.
--Alf Whit
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
--Anatole France
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
--Mother Teresa
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
--Philip Barry
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
--Bertolt Brecht
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Love
I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch.
- Adrienne Rich
Peggy- "Tell me you love me, Al" Al-"I love football, I love beer, let's not cheapen the meaning of the word."
- Al Bundy
What could be more repellent than to suffer the limitation of others as a desperat alternative to gazing singly at our own?
- Alain de Botton, "The Romantic Movement" ( $ )
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving.
- Aldous Huxley
I'm not as dumb as you think I am, I've learned a thing or two. I don't care about nothing at all, but I think the world of you.
- All, "Think of You" ( $ )
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it
- Anatole France (1844-1924) French Writer. Le Jardin D'Epicure
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous
True love is like a butterfly. Once it is gone it has flown away it is nearly impossible to recapture it.
- Anonymous
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-Exupery
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own (will), is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- Apostle Paul
If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, great. If not, it's probably having dinner with someone more attractive than you
- Bill Grieser
Who needs love when you've got a gun?
- Black Flag
"I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred."
- Bob Dylan
Love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings real meaning to our everyday lives...but the love i mean is the fire that burns inside us all, the inner warmth tha prevents our soul from freezing in the winters of despair.
- Bradley Trevor Grieve, "The Meaning of Life" ( $ )
missing me like missing you.
in a bathroom
in combination with your talking,
your eyes and smile
striving driving your flying to LA
i pppounce on memories
i evidently obsess
you will make me a purchase
comeback, schemer, non-dreamer in a dream
baby letting him eat you up
eat you owat
and not me not me here
taking this
downing that
- Brett Engle
You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart. Then people are going to treat you better. You're going to find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel.
- Carole King
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.
- Charles Dickens
Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it.
- D.H. Lawrence
For what is the beloved? She is that which I myself am not. In the act of love, I am pure male, and she is pure female. She is she, and I am I, and clasped together with her, I know how perfectly she is not me, how perfectly I am not her, how utterly we are two, the light and the darkness, and how infinetly and eternally, not-to-be-comprehended by either of us is the surpassing One we make.
- D.H. Lawrence
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
- David Grayson
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
- David Seabury
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
- Douglas Yates
i wish i could say i lived near an ocean. i could go there when i wanted and listen and waste more time than i should. watch people and listen. eat shrimp and listen.
- Dustin Vannatter
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
- Edvard Munch
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers. Into one beautiful perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.
- Edwin Arnold
To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.
- Eric Fromm
"if two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it"
- Ernest Hemingway
All life is the progression towards, and the recession from, one phrase - I love you.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Offshore Pirate" ( $ )
"Open Eyes, open heart, open up and fall apart"
- Finger Eleven
In Ireland you're allowed to say you love God and babies and horses that win but anything else is a softness in the head.
- Frank McCourt , Angela's Ashes
A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at the bottom comes up.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Born to lose, I"ve lived all my life in vain. All my dreams have only caused me pain. All my life i've always been so blue. Born to lose and now i'm losing you
- Gene Pitney, "Born to Lose" ( $ )
Life without love is meaningless and goodness without love is impossible.
- Greg Jurkiewicz, "The Neo-Reconstructionist Manifesto" ( $ )
The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" ( $ )
One can wait a whole lifetime for a moment like this. The woman whom you never hoped to meet now sits before you, and she talks and looks exactly like the person you dreamed about. But strangest of all is that you never realized before that you had dreamed about her. Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everthing is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life: REALITY.
- Henry Miller, "Tropic of Capricorn" ( $ )
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
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
- Hermann Hesse
The joy of life and its affairs of happiness digress into a pain of lost height. So, in all happiness there is sadness. That of a depressed state of losing, a time which no enjoyment can fervor the full amount because of the hidden realization of drowning in the opposites.
- Hilliary Heard
EMOTION IS DEAD!! LOVE IS GAY!! And EMO bands are just singing about Eating More Oreos!!
- Hunter Hall
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.
- Inb Abbad
Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions?
- Jack Handey
He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.
- Jamacia Kincaid, "The Autobiography of My Mother" ( $ )
I step forward and I hug her. There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched.
- James Frey, "A Million Little Pieces" ( $ )
I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words. and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
- James Joyce
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like a genuis, she is ignorant of what she does.
- Jeanette Winterson, "The Passion" ( $ )
I'm a dork and she's so cool, I'm ugly she's beautiful, she's so smart I'm just a fool, and I just can't figure it out, I just can't undrstand, why does she love me?
- Jeffrie Fan Club
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
- John Barrymore
Some say, 'Love means never having to say your sorry'. To me, love means never having to hear, 'Where's my friggin' rent, you lazy bastard ?!' in the first place.
- John Crocker
Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises
- Johnny Rotten
My boyfriend couldn't come to the kegger tonight. He had to do Linux programming. Hell yes, I would like a beer. In fact, I NEED a beer.
- Justin'S Girlfriend
"Unconditonal" ( without conditions ), just as i am (without provisions),till death do us part (murder not acceptable),for better or for worse(and it always gets worse), now say you love me !!
- Katherine Wolf
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
- Ken Kesey
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet" ( $ )
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please-a little less love, and a little more common decency.'"
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "Slapstick" ( $ )
my heart you lifted, my eyes you dried, im sorry but i must say good-bye. i cried because my heart was broken, and its still stolen, im sorry because now i did the same to you, i hope you found someone whos true to you.
- L0l0
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses
- Lord Dewar
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its lanuage is always acceptable to those who have hearts.
- Mary Baker Eddy
I hate to laugh,I love to love.... But your love for me is so far above.
- Mosta
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
- Mother Theresa
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
- Nathaniel Branden
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it oepns up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
- Neil Gaiman
Love is the state in which man sees things Most widely different from what they are.
- Nietzsche
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Ninon De L'Enclos (1616-1706)
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead.
- Oscar Wilde
To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong affair!
- Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband" ( $ )
To be loved, be lovable.
- Ovid
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way that this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Veléry
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
- Pearl Bailey
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
She is the heart that strikes a whole octave. After her all songs are possible.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -Think I'M Going For A Walk Now I Feel A Little Unsteady Dont Want Nobody To Fo
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love is the distance between reality and pain.
- Robyn_hitchcock
The road to finding "the one" is paved with a bit of promiscuity
- Ryan Erickson
Love is a beautician. It can create beauty, but also illusion. True love is natural beauty. Everylasting, and never fake.
- Sarah Bianchi
Lost and Found. Lost wife and dog. Reward for Dog!
- Screach
Lost & Found. Lost wife and dog.
- Screach
I stand on the edge of destruction emotionally ruined By the warmth I most desire I will not fall prey to love of a human kind for love is weakness; Love is the fall of every man
- Shai Hulud
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
- Sigmund Freud
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
- Sir James M. Barrie
Smoke and Mirrors/special effects a little fear/ a little sex that all love is/ behind the tears smoke and mirrors
- The Magnetic Fields
Last night I drempt somebody loved me: no hope -- no harm just another false alarm.
- The Smiths, "Strangeways, Here We Come" 1987 ( $ )
"...if you love enough, you'll lie a lot"
- Tori Amos
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
- Truman Capote
Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you're lonely remember it's true: somebody somewhere is thinking of you.
- Unknown
"Never frown when youre down, you never know whos falling in love with your smile"
- Unknown
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
- Unknown
True love can not be found where it does not truly exists Nor can it be hidden where it truly does
- Unknown
A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon. It makes you so crazy you want to swallow the moon.
- Venus De Milo
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
- Victor Huge, "Les Miserables" ( $ )
Love is eternal. The aspect of it may change, but the essence remains the same.
- Vincent van Gogh
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.
- William Shakespeare
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking you and beat love down.
- William Shakespeare
"...Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall And a preserving sweet."
- William Shakespeare
"I don't want to live...I want to love first, and live incidentally."
- Zelda Fitzgerald
Love:Kissing
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.
- Andy Warhol
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen ...
- Anne Sexton
Since feeling is first, who pays attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you.
- E. E. Cummings
and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
- Gregory Maguire
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her, when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
- Helen Rowland
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman
It's never over, a kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder...it's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her...it's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter...it's never over, she's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever...
- Jeff Buckley
... we kiss. And it feels like we have just shrugged of the world.
- Jim Shahin
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
- Joseph Conrad
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
- Leigh Hunt
Love:Relationships
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
- Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice" ( $ )
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
One of the oldest human needs is to have someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
- Olin Miller
"There are two kinds of sparks, the one that goes off with a hitch like a match, but it burns quickly. The other is the kind that needs time, but when the flame strikes...it's eternal, don't forget that."
- Timothy Oliveira
Love:Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
- Bill Cosby
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Goethe
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience
- Oscar Wilde
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
Love:Lost
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Samuel Butler
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- Samuel Butler, "The Way of All Flesh"
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
- W. H. Auden
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Sex
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer. . .
- David Foster Wallace, "Infinite Jest" ( $ )
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley
sex concentrates on what is on the outside of the individual. It's funny because I think it's better inside.
- Alex Walsh
great sex is great, but bad sex is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
- Billy Idol
Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called "making love". Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said "sex is good". All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.
- Bongo, From "Childhood Is Hell" By Matt Groening ( $ )
Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter.
- Dave Barry, "Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys" ( $ )
*When a man goes on a date, he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.
- Frederike Ryder
Did you ever notice the people who are most adamantly against abortions are people so ugly you wouldn't want to touch them in the first place?
- George Carlin
Sex is one of the 9 reasons for reincarnation, the other 8 are unimportant.
- Henry Miller
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
- Mark Twain
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
- Matt Groening, From "Basic Sex Facts For Today'S Youngfolk" In Life In Hell ( $ )
I like it when people have sex with me.
- Sad, Sad Skater (Justin)
"if you are fat, no matter what you wear, nothing is going to make you sexier"
- Steve Austin
Were kisses all the joys in bed, one woman would another wed.
- William Shakespeare, "Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music IV"
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large
- Woody haroldson play it to the bone
Sex:Abstinence
Chastity... the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
- Aldous Huxley
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
- Voltaire
--Sir Rabindranath Tagore Thakur (1861-1941)
Love many, trust few but always paddle your own canoe!
--Unknown
I love being alive and will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. I will seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.
--Duane Allman
Life is to be fortified by many friendships - to love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existense.
--Sydney Smith
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
--Fr. Jerome Cummings
The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
--Nat King Cole
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
--Charlie Brown
Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
--Anonymous
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
--Jean Anouilh
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
--Willa Cather (1876-1947)
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
--Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
Love is a little blind. When we love someone dearly, we unconsciously overlook many thoughts.
--Beatrice Saunders
Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care.
--Carl S. Avery
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
--David Wilkerson
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
--John Powell
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
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
The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously
--Helen Gurley Brown
Lovers, like bees, lead a honey-sweet life.
--Graffiti on a wall of Pompeii
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; Even love unreturned has its rainbow
--Eaton Stannard Barret
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God
--Mary Manin Morrissey
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
--Carl Jung
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
--Diane Arbus
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
--Goncourt
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
--Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as a act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception
--Harold Loukes
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations
--Kahlil Gibran
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is miracle.
--Marianne Williamson
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
--Sophocles
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
--Mother Teresa
My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night But ah, my foes and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light!
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
--Rob Cella
Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole
--Tea Rose
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
--Kent Nerburn
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
--Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.
--Michael (John Travolta) Michael
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
--Sigmund Freud
If you would be loved, love and be lovable
--Benjamin Franklin
This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you love the good that you see in another, you make it your own.
--Saint Gregory The Great
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
--Elbert Hubbard
There is nothing more important in life than love.
--Barbara Streisand
The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt
--Anonymous
Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
Love is merely the exchange of two illusions and the contact of two skins
--Chamfort
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
--Robert Frost
For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.
--David Myers Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
--James Baldwin
Nothing is lovely without love itself, and nothing is lovlier than love itself.
--Devan Penegar
It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
--Margaret Kennedy
The magic of the first love is the ignorance that it can never end.
--Disraeli
Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.
--Kimberly Kirberg
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
--C.S. Lewis
All you need is love.
--John Lennon
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
So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.
--George Santayana
Love is like a bed of roses, there are many thorns. The path to true happiness lies in learning to avoid the thorns, while enjoying the roses.
--Lillian Carol Russell
What force is more potent than love.
--Igor Stravinsky
A good love is delicious you can't get enough too soon.
--Jewel Kilcher
A day without love is a day without life.
--George Van Valkenburg
The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else.
--Unknown
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
--Theophile Gantier
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
--Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
--Mother Teresa
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
--William Shakespeare
I have never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love-plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing-turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, could not use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness
--Elizabeth McCracken
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
--John Donne
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
--Erica Jong
Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.
--Tom Wilson
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
--Henry David Thoreau
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
--John Lennon
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
--Greg Anderson
There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
--St. Augustine
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
--Francois Mocuriac
Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.
--Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
--Unknown
One advantage of marriage It seems to me Is that when you fall out of love with him Or he falls out of love with you It keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.
--Judith Viorst
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
--Mozart
Love teaches even asses to dance.
--French Proverb
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
--Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit
Love your enemies. It really pisses them off!
--Unknown
To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.
--Mary Baker Eddy
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
--Matt Groening
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love I gain nothing 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 perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
--1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never
--Charles Caleb Colton
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
--Helen Rowland
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
--Mother Teresa
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
--Rabrindranath Tagore
Sometimes I find myself making love to my own misfortune.
--Norma O. Abrego
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.
--Mary Manin Morrissey
We must love one another or die
--W.H. Auden poem - September 1, 1939
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to b and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.
--Helen Keller
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
--Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love. (He may have gotten it elsewhere.)
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
--Walt Disney
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
--Charles Dickens
Sometimes it hurt more then we can bear.If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace..but we would be hollow..Empty rooms shuttered and dank.Without passion we'd be truly dead
--David Boreanaz - Angel" in ((Passion)) (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
I don't know what you are talking about and i don't care.I'm talking about watching my lover die.
--Sarah Michelle Gellar "Buffy" in ((Graduation Day Part 2)) (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
--Barbara DeAngelis
Where does the family start ? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
--Sir Winston Churchill
The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.
--Keith Sullivan
Platonic love is like an inactive volcano.
--Andre Pevost
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
--Sir James M. Barrie
If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it.
--Rabert A. Henlein Lazarus Long
I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate - but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza.
--Alf Whit
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
--Anatole France
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
--Mother Teresa
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
--Philip Barry
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
--Bertolt Brecht
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
--Unknown
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
--Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)
What we love to do we find time to do.
--John L. Spalding
The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.
--Brian Tracy
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love, And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear
--George Eliot
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path
--Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
--Henry Ward Beecher
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
--Leo Buscaglia
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
--Elbert Hubbard
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
--Kahlil Gibran
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love
--Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive
--Havelock Ellis
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.
--Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich's ABC, 1962
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world
--Unknown
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as a act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception
--Harold Loukes
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations
--Kahlil Gib
--Rob Cella
Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole
--Tea Rose
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
--Kent Nerburn
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
--Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.
--Michael (John Travolta) Michael
The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else.
--Unknown
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
--Theophile Gantier
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
--Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls
--Mother Teresa
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better
--William Shakespeare
I have never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love-plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing-turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, could not use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness
--Elizabeth McCracken
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
--John Donne
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
--David Grayson
And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.
--Kahlil Gibran The Prophet (1923)
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be don
--Helen Hayes
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
--Gordon William Allport
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love
--Mahatma Gandhi
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
--Karen Sunde
They do not love that do not show their love.
--John Heywood (1497?-1580?)
There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
--Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) US playwright
The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone.
--Fred Small Everything Possible
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
--Alfred de Musset
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
--H. L. Mencken
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open
--Sir Rabindranath Tagore Thakur (1861-1941)
Love many, trust few but always paddle your own canoe!
--Unknown
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
--Carl Jung
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
--Diane Arbus
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
--Sigmund Freud
If you would be loved, love and be lovable
--Benjamin Franklin
This have I know the exchange of two illusions and the contact of two skins
--Chamfort
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
--Robert Frost
For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.
--David Myers
There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
--St. Augustine
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
--Francois Mocuriac
Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.
--Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
--Unknown
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
--Mother Teresa
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess
--Rainer Maria Rilke
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes.just be an illusion.
--Javan
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.
--Melanie Clark
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.
--Nikki Giovanni
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your life depends on it; and when the time comes, to let go.
--Mary Oliver
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
--Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above its strength.
--Thomas A Kempis
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
--Lady Murasaki
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
--Mignon McLaughlin
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
--Jule Renard
Falling in love is like being struck by lightning. You can no more make it strike you than you can avoid it.
--Indy (Sean Patrick Flannery) Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great
--Translation of Bussy-Rabutin’s quote in French (from his book La Vie Amoureuse des Gaules - The Love Life of the Gaules):
"L'absence est à l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent;
Il éteint le petit, il allume le grand."
I love being alive and will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it. I will seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me.
--Duane Allman
Life is to be fortified by many friendships - to love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existense.
--Sydney Smith
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; Even love unreturned has its rainbow
--Eaton Stannard Barret
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God
--Mary Manin M --Beatrice Saunders
Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care.
--Carl S. Avery
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
--David Wilkerson
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
--John Powell
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
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
The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously
--Helen Gurley Brown
Lovers, like bees, lead a honey-sweet life.
--Graffiti on a wall of Pompeii
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus (1913-1960)
Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.
--Sharon Salzberg
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-183 direction to goodness...Love will never die
--Bryce Courtney
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
--Katherine Hepburn
Love without return is like a question without an answer
--Unknown
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A man is a little thing when he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
--Henry Drummond British Clergyman
L'amore platonico ` un vulcano inattivo.
--Andre Pevost
One good thing about internet dating: you're guaranteed to click with whomever you meet.
--Mongo
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
--Lord Dewar
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...
--Emmet Fox
Love is being stupid together.
--Paul Valery
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
--Franklin P. Jones
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
--James Baldwin
Nothing is lovely without love itself, and nothing is lovlier than love itself.
--Devan Penegar
It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
--Margaret Kennedy
The magic of the first love is the ignorance that it can never end.
--Disraeli
Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.
--Kimberly Kirberg
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
--C.S. Lewis
All you need is love.
--John Lennon
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and fee for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
--Erica Jong
Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.
--Tom Wilson
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
--Henry David Thoreau
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
--John Lennon
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
--Greg Anderson
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
--Goncourt
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
--Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
--Mother Teresa
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
--Rabrindranath Tagore
Sometimes I find myself making love to my own misfortune.
--Norma O. Abrego
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.
--Mary Manin Morrissey
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.
--Helen Keller
The most difficult thing to explain in life is the simplest truth called LOVE.
--Ramanathan Srinivasan
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
--Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love. (He may have gotten it elsewhere.)
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
--Barbara DeAngelis
Where does the family start ? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
--Sir Winston Churchill
The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.
--Keith Sullivan
Platonic love is like an inactive volcano.
--Andre Pevost
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
--Sir James M. Barrie
If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it.
--Rabert A. Henlein Lazarus Long
I know that somewhere in the Universe exists my perfect soulmate - but looking for her is much more difficult than just staying at home and ordering another pizza.
--Alf Whit
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
--Anatole France
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
--Mother Teresa
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
--Philip Barry
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
--Bertolt Brecht
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Love
I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch.
- Adrienne Rich
Peggy- "Tell me you love me, Al" Al-"I love football, I love beer, let's not cheapen the meaning of the word."
- Al Bundy
What could be more repellent than to suffer the limitation of others as a desperat alternative to gazing singly at our own?
- Alain de Botton, "The Romantic Movement" ( $ )
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving.
- Aldous Huxley
I'm not as dumb as you think I am, I've learned a thing or two. I don't care about nothing at all, but I think the world of you.
- All, "Think of You" ( $ )
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it
- Anatole France (1844-1924) French Writer. Le Jardin D'Epicure
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous
True love is like a butterfly. Once it is gone it has flown away it is nearly impossible to recapture it.
- Anonymous
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-Exupery
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own (will), is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- Apostle Paul
If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, great. If not, it's probably having dinner with someone more attractive than you
- Bill Grieser
Who needs love when you've got a gun?
- Black Flag
"I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred."
- Bob Dylan
Love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings real meaning to our everyday lives...but the love i mean is the fire that burns inside us all, the inner warmth tha prevents our soul from freezing in the winters of despair.
- Bradley Trevor Grieve, "The Meaning of Life" ( $ )
missing me like missing you.
in a bathroom
in combination with your talking,
your eyes and smile
striving driving your flying to LA
i pppounce on memories
i evidently obsess
you will make me a purchase
comeback, schemer, non-dreamer in a dream
baby letting him eat you up
eat you owat
and not me not me here
taking this
downing that
- Brett Engle
You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart. Then people are going to treat you better. You're going to find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel.
- Carole King
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.
- Charles Dickens
Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it.
- D.H. Lawrence
For what is the beloved? She is that which I myself am not. In the act of love, I am pure male, and she is pure female. She is she, and I am I, and clasped together with her, I know how perfectly she is not me, how perfectly I am not her, how utterly we are two, the light and the darkness, and how infinetly and eternally, not-to-be-comprehended by either of us is the surpassing One we make.
- D.H. Lawrence
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
- David Grayson
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
- David Seabury
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
- Douglas Yates
i wish i could say i lived near an ocean. i could go there when i wanted and listen and waste more time than i should. watch people and listen. eat shrimp and listen.
- Dustin Vannatter
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
- Edvard Munch
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers. Into one beautiful perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.
- Edwin Arnold
To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.
- Eric Fromm
"if two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it"
- Ernest Hemingway
All life is the progression towards, and the recession from, one phrase - I love you.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Offshore Pirate" ( $ )
"Open Eyes, open heart, open up and fall apart"
- Finger Eleven
In Ireland you're allowed to say you love God and babies and horses that win but anything else is a softness in the head.
- Frank McCourt , Angela's Ashes
A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at the bottom comes up.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Born to lose, I"ve lived all my life in vain. All my dreams have only caused me pain. All my life i've always been so blue. Born to lose and now i'm losing you
- Gene Pitney, "Born to Lose" ( $ )
Life without love is meaningless and goodness without love is impossible.
- Greg Jurkiewicz, "The Neo-Reconstructionist Manifesto" ( $ )
The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" ( $ )
One can wait a whole lifetime for a moment like this. The woman whom you never hoped to meet now sits before you, and she talks and looks exactly like the person you dreamed about. But strangest of all is that you never realized before that you had dreamed about her. Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everthing is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life: REALITY.
- Henry Miller, "Tropic of Capricorn" ( $ )
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
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
- Hermann Hesse
The joy of life and its affairs of happiness digress into a pain of lost height. So, in all happiness there is sadness. That of a depressed state of losing, a time which no enjoyment can fervor the full amount because of the hidden realization of drowning in the opposites.
- Hilliary Heard
EMOTION IS DEAD!! LOVE IS GAY!! And EMO bands are just singing about Eating More Oreos!!
- Hunter Hall
My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.
- Inb Abbad
Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions?
- Jack Handey
He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.
- Jamacia Kincaid, "The Autobiography of My Mother" ( $ )
I step forward and I hug her. There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched.
- James Frey, "A Million Little Pieces" ( $ )
I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words. and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
- James Joyce
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like a genuis, she is ignorant of what she does.
- Jeanette Winterson, "The Passion" ( $ )
I'm a dork and she's so cool, I'm ugly she's beautiful, she's so smart I'm just a fool, and I just can't figure it out, I just can't undrstand, why does she love me?
- Jeffrie Fan Club
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
- John Barrymore
Some say, 'Love means never having to say your sorry'. To me, love means never having to hear, 'Where's my friggin' rent, you lazy bastard ?!' in the first place.
- John Crocker
Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises
- Johnny Rotten
My boyfriend couldn't come to the kegger tonight. He had to do Linux programming. Hell yes, I would like a beer. In fact, I NEED a beer.
- Justin'S Girlfriend
"Unconditonal" ( without conditions ), just as i am (without provisions),till death do us part (murder not acceptable),for better or for worse(and it always gets worse), now say you love me !!
- Katherine Wolf
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
- Ken Kesey
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet" ( $ )
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please-a little less love, and a little more common decency.'"
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "Slapstick" ( $ )
my heart you lifted, my eyes you dried, im sorry but i must say good-bye. i cried because my heart was broken, and its still stolen, im sorry because now i did the same to you, i hope you found someone whos true to you.
- L0l0
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses
- Lord Dewar
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its lanuage is always acceptable to those who have hearts.
- Mary Baker Eddy
I hate to laugh,I love to love.... But your love for me is so far above.
- Mosta
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
- Mother Theresa
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
- Nathaniel Branden
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it oepns up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
- Neil Gaiman
Love is the state in which man sees things Most widely different from what they are.
- Nietzsche
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Ninon De L'Enclos (1616-1706)
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead.
- Oscar Wilde
To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong affair!
- Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband" ( $ )
To be loved, be lovable.
- Ovid
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way that this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Veléry
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
- Pearl Bailey
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
She is the heart that strikes a whole octave. After her all songs are possible.
- Rainer Maria Rilke -Think I'M Going For A Walk Now I Feel A Little Unsteady Dont Want Nobody To Fo
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love is the distance between reality and pain.
- Robyn_hitchcock
The road to finding "the one" is paved with a bit of promiscuity
- Ryan Erickson
Love is a beautician. It can create beauty, but also illusion. True love is natural beauty. Everylasting, and never fake.
- Sarah Bianchi
Lost and Found. Lost wife and dog. Reward for Dog!
- Screach
Lost & Found. Lost wife and dog.
- Screach
I stand on the edge of destruction emotionally ruined By the warmth I most desire I will not fall prey to love of a human kind for love is weakness; Love is the fall of every man
- Shai Hulud
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
- Sigmund Freud
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
- Sir James M. Barrie
Smoke and Mirrors/special effects a little fear/ a little sex that all love is/ behind the tears smoke and mirrors
- The Magnetic Fields
Last night I drempt somebody loved me: no hope -- no harm just another false alarm.
- The Smiths, "Strangeways, Here We Come" 1987 ( $ )
"...if you love enough, you'll lie a lot"
- Tori Amos
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
- Truman Capote
Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you're lonely remember it's true: somebody somewhere is thinking of you.
- Unknown
"Never frown when youre down, you never know whos falling in love with your smile"
- Unknown
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
- Unknown
True love can not be found where it does not truly exists Nor can it be hidden where it truly does
- Unknown
A good love is delicious, you can't get enough too soon. It makes you so crazy you want to swallow the moon.
- Venus De Milo
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
- Victor Huge, "Les Miserables" ( $ )
Love is eternal. The aspect of it may change, but the essence remains the same.
- Vincent van Gogh
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.
- William Shakespeare
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking you and beat love down.
- William Shakespeare
"...Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall And a preserving sweet."
- William Shakespeare
"I don't want to live...I want to love first, and live incidentally."
- Zelda Fitzgerald
Love:Kissing
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.
- Andy Warhol
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen ...
- Anne Sexton
Since feeling is first, who pays attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you.
- E. E. Cummings
and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
- Gregory Maguire
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her, when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
- Helen Rowland
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman
It's never over, a kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder...it's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her...it's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter...it's never over, she's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever...
- Jeff Buckley
... we kiss. And it feels like we have just shrugged of the world.
- Jim Shahin
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
- Joseph Conrad
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
- Leigh Hunt
Love:Relationships
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
- Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice" ( $ )
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
One of the oldest human needs is to have someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
- Olin Miller
"There are two kinds of sparks, the one that goes off with a hitch like a match, but it burns quickly. The other is the kind that needs time, but when the flame strikes...it's eternal, don't forget that."
- Timothy Oliveira
Love:Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
- Bill Cosby
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Goethe
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience
- Oscar Wilde
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
Love:Lost
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Samuel Butler
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- Samuel Butler, "The Way of All Flesh"
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
- W. H. Auden
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Sex
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer. . .
- David Foster Wallace, "Infinite Jest" ( $ )
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley
sex concentrates on what is on the outside of the individual. It's funny because I think it's better inside.
- Alex Walsh
great sex is great, but bad sex is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
- Billy Idol
Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called "making love". Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said "sex is good". All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.
- Bongo, From "Childhood Is Hell" By Matt Groening ( $ )
Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter.
- Dave Barry, "Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys" ( $ )
*When a man goes on a date, he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.
- Frederike Ryder
Did you ever notice the people who are most adamantly against abortions are people so ugly you wouldn't want to touch them in the first place?
- George Carlin
Sex is one of the 9 reasons for reincarnation, the other 8 are unimportant.
- Henry Miller
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
- Mark Twain
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
- Matt Groening, From "Basic Sex Facts For Today'S Youngfolk" In Life In Hell ( $ )
I like it when people have sex with me.
- Sad, Sad Skater (Justin)
"if you are fat, no matter what you wear, nothing is going to make you sexier"
- Steve Austin
Were kisses all the joys in bed, one woman would another wed.
- William Shakespeare, "Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music IV"
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large
- Woody haroldson play it to the bone
Sex:Abstinence
Chastity... the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
- Aldous Huxley
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
- Voltaire