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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
If you love something, set it free.
If it comes back it is yours.
If it doesn't, it never was.
It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.
-- Jerrold
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
-- Sir W. Temple
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
-- Longfellow
It is better to have loved and lost, than not to love at all.
-- Tennyson
Love is love's reward.
-- Dryden
If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.
-- Doddridge
If only the power of love was as great as the love of power.
No matter what, no matter where -
It's always home if love is there.
-- From the Dutch
When other things are past and gone.
A mother's love lives on and on.
-- Dutch Proverb
The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay.
Love isn't love till you give it away.
Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved?
-- Anzia Yezierska
Love without commitment is an imposter.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint Exupery
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
-- C. S. Lewis
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
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes
No three words have greater power than 'I Love You'.
-- Unknown
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
-- Aristotle
Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
-- James Matthew Barrie
Love is a rare opportunity and when that love is somehow parted it's something deep down inside that wants just a reminder, a slice of memory, a possession.
-- Unknown
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
-- Victor Hugo
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
-- John Lennon
Where there is love there is life.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
-- Santa Teresa de Jesus
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde
Love, you are eternal like springtime.
-- Juam Rammon Jiminez
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?
-- George Elliott
Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
-- Lope de Vega
Without love, the world itself would not survive.
-- Lope de Vega
Pains of love be sweeter far
Then all other pleasures are.
-- Jon Dryden
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
-- Lord Byron, The Giaour, 1813
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
-- Mignong McLaughlin
A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert Heinlein
I could do without many things with no hardship -- you are not one of them.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
War is like love; it always finds a way.
-- Bertolt Brecht
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
-- Mark A. Overby
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
-- Alexander Smith
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
-- Madame Swetchine
Unless you can love as the angels may,
With the breadth of heaven between you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behoving and unbehoving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past --
Oh! Never call it loving!
-- Robert Browning
Love and friendship are the greatest things in life.
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
-- Balzac
Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.
-- Anonymous
The heart that loves is always young.
-- Greek proverb
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
-- Barbara Pym
Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.
-- Cher
Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-- Jeanna Moreau
Doubt thou the stars are fire!
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
-- Shakespeare
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.
-- La Rochefoucauld
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies,
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
-- Bourdillon
Sing, for faith and hope are high --
None so true as you and I --
Sign the Lover's Litany:
'Love like ours can never die!'
-- Kipling
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Franklin
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Johnson
In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in all comedy. --
The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins all.
-- Anne Swetchine
I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children, and those who marry early with their partners.
-- Johnson
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
-- Ovid
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
-- Victor Hugo
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
-- Unknown
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
-- Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
-- Thoreau
You call it madness, but I call it love.
-- Don Byas
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
-- Houssaye
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
-- John Lennon
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, re-made all the time, made new.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
-- Herman Hesse
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams; we can be together all the time.
-- Hobbes
Being deeply loved by someone giives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu
Wishes of a Lover
As I look out at the majestic sea,
I know you and I were meant to be.
I only wish I could make you see,
How much your love means to me.
I wish I could walk up to you
And speak the words that lovers do.
But now I sit here sad and blue
Wishing that I could be with you.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- Henry Louis Mencken
As perfume doth remain
In the folds where it hath lain,
So the thought of you, remaining
Deeply folded in my brain,
Will not leave me: all things leave me:
You remain.
-- Arthur Symons
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
-- Aphra Behn
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling love.
-- Albert Einstein
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- W. B. Yeats
I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
-- Forrest Gump
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
-- William Blake
If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket.
-- Matthew White
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
-- Thomas Mann
Marriage is not living with the person you love, but living with the person you can't live without.
-- Aissa Amor A. Sarmiento
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Les Miserables
War can't kill love. Love can kill war.
-- Helene Lagerberg
And I'd give up forever to touch you
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is this life
'Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight
-- Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
-- Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibnitz
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier
Those that go searching for love only make 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
Looking back, I have this regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
-- David Grayson
We can only learn to love by loving.
-- Iris Murdoch
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
-- O. A. Battista
To understand your parent's love you must raise children yourself.
-- Chinese Proverb
Love is a great beautifier.
-- Louisa May Alcott
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
-- Willa Cather
Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like no one is watching.
And love like you've never been hurt.
-- Mark Twain
Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.
-- Gay
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
-- Henry Miller
O! Many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
-- Walter Scott
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
-- John Ray
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-- W. H. Auden
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Connors. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
-- Judith Viorst
Friends will keep you sane,
Love could fill your heart,
A lover can warm your bed,
But lonely is the soul without a mate.
-- David Pratt
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
-- Sean Connery
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
-- Erica Jong
All I know of love is that love is all there is.
-- Emily Dickinson
The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'
-- Robert Quillen
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
-- Janos Arany
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
-- Erich Fromm
My love does not, cannot make her happy. My love can only release in her the capacity to be happy.
-- J. Barnes
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
-- Hasidic saying
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.
-- Khalil Gibran
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be seperated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith
Love is a decision to live in a universe which is good, even when there is no proof to validate it.
-- Barry Tellman
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
-- George Washington Carver
To cheat one's self out of love is the greatest deception of which there is no reparation in either time or eternity.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
A relationship is what happens between two people who are waiting for something better to come along.
-- Anonymous
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
-- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
-- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucauld
To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
-- Petrarch
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
-- John Donne
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
-- George E. Woodberry