The greatest tragedy of life is 
not that men perish, but that 
they cease to love.
--W. Somerset Maugham 

Love is like war, easy to 
begin but hard to end.
--Henry Mencken

The most precious possession that 
ever comes to a man in this world
is a woman's heart.
--Josiah G. Holland

The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is to love and be loved in return.
--Natalie Cole

It breaks your heart to see the one 
you love is happy with someone else, 
but it's more painful to know that
the one you love is unhappy with you.
--Unknown

At the touch of love, 
everyone becomes a poet.
--Plato

If love is the answer,
can you please repeat 
the question?
--Unknown

Paradise is always where 
love dwells.
--Jean Paul F. Richter

Do you love me because I am beautiful
or am I beautiful because I am loved?
--Unknown

To the world you may be just one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
--Unknown

Love, true love, is that which 
can give the most without asking 
or demanding anything in return.
--Mazie Hammond

Where there is love, 
there is God also.
--Lev Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand,
I understand only because I love.
--Lev Tolstoy

Love cures people -- both the 
ones who give it and the ones 
who receive it.
--Dr. Karl Me'nage

Nothing is more painful than 
realizing he meant everything 
to you and you meant nothing 
to him.
--Unknown

One word frees us of all the 
weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
--Sophocles

When they asked me what 
I loved most about life,
I smiled and said you.
--Tina

Love... What is love? Love is 
to love someone for who they 
are, who they were, and who 
they will be.
--Chris Moore

No one is perfect until you 
fall in love with them.
--Unknown

Love is like a river, always 
changing, but always finding 
you again somewhere down the 
road.
--Kelly Elaine

Love is a language spoken 
by everyone, but understood 
only by a heart.
--Shirley Rindani

People need love even when 
they don't deserve it.
--Nikki Ledbetter

Love makes life so confusing, 
but without love would you 
really want to live?
--Unknown

For every word you say,
another piece of my heart 
you take.
--Tiara Johnson

Maybe God put a few bad 
people in your life, so 
when the right one came 
along you'd be thankful.
--Andrea Kiefer

Love the heart that hurts you,
But never hurt the heart that 
loves you.
--Unknown

Absence sharpens love, 
presence strengthens it.
--by Thomas Fuller

Love me for a reason,
let the reason be love.  
--Unknown

When first we fall in love, 
we feel that we know all 
there is to know about life.
...And perhaps we are right.
--Unknown

Love built on beauty, 
soon as beauty, dies.
--John Donne

Tell me whom you love and I 
will tell you who you are.
--Unknown
 
No man is truly married
until he understands every 
word his wife is NOT saying.
--Unknown

You will never know true happiness
until you have truly loved,
and you will never understand
what pain really is
until you have lost it.
--Unknown

To live is like to love -
all reason is against it,
and all healthy instinct 
for it.
--Samuel Butler

A simple "I love you" means 
more than money...
--Frank Sinatra

True love cannot be found where 
it truly does not exist, nor can 
it be hidden where it truly does.
--Unknown

Love: a temporary insanity, 
curable by marriage...
--Ambrose Bierce

Life without love is like a tree
Without blossom and fruit.
--Khalil Gibra

I cannot think well of a man who sports 
with any woman's feelings; and there may 
often be a great deal more suffered than 
a stander-by can judge of.
--Jane Austen

Many a young lady does not realize 
just how strong her love for a young 
man is until he fails to pass the 
approval test with her parents.
--Unknown

I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.
--Willam Shakespeare

And all for love, 
and nothing for reward.
--Edmund Spenser

If you love somebody, tell them.
--Rod McKuen

The important thing was to love 
rather than to be loved.
--W. Somerset Maugham

A friend is someone who knows the 
song in your heart and can sing it 
back to you when you have forgotten 
the words.
--Unknown 

A man is not where he lives, 
but where he loves.
--Latin proverbs
 
A pity beyond all telling 
Is hid in the heart of love.
--W. B. Yeats

A smile is nearly always 
inspired by another smile.
--Unknown 

A thing of beauty is joy forever.
--John Keats

All you need is love.
--John Lennon

Friendship is inexplicable, it 
should not be explained if one 
doesn't want to kill it.
--Max Jacob

Who do you turn to when the only person
in the world that can stop you from crying,
is exactly the one making you cry?
--Unknown

Gravitation cannot be held 
responsible for people falling 
in love.
--Albert Einstein
 
I could do without many things 
with no hardship--you are not 
one of them.
--Ashleigh Brilliant

Give her two red roses, each with 
a note. The first note says 'For the 
woman I love' and the second, 'For 
my best friend.'
--Unknown

I don't make you feel special, 
I just remind you that you are 
special.
--David F. Sims

I love you for the man you are, 
I love you for the things you do, 
I love you for the things you say. 
But most of all I love you because 
you love me for the woman I am 
for the things I do and 
for the things I say. I love you
--Unknown

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; 
ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot 
speak, than a heart that cannot love.
--Robert Tizon

If we judge of love by its usual 
effects, it resembles hatred more 
than friendship.
--La Rochefoucauld

In her first passion woman loves 
her lover, In all the others all 
she loves is love.
--George Gordon Lord Byron

People ask me what makes me love you 
so much but I won't tell them cause 
if I did they would love you too.
--Unknown

In women everything is heart, 
even the head.
--J. P. Richter

I seem to have loved you in numberless 
forms, numberless times, in life after 
life, in age after age forever.
--Rabindranath Tagore

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

The reduction of the universe to 
a single being, the expansion of 
a single being even to God, this 
is love.
--Victor Hugo

The only thing we never get enough 
of is love; and the only thing we 
never give enough of is love.
--Henry Miller

Love conquers all.
--Virgil

Have a heart that never hardens, 
and a temper that never tires, 
and a touch that never hurts.
--Charles Dickens

Love is an ideal thing, marriage 
a real thing; a confusion of the
real with the ideal never goes 
unpunished.
--Goethe

Age does not protect us from love,
But love to some extent protects us 
from age.
--Unknown

If you have it [love], you don't 
need to have anything else.
If you don't have it, it doesn't 
matter much what else you have.
--Sir James M. Barrie

Love: The irresistible desire to 
be irresistibly desired.
--Robert Frost

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature
and embroidered by imagination.
--Voltaire

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder 
of the wise, the amazement of the gods.
--Unknown

Some of us think holding on 
makes us strong; but sometimes 
it is letting go.
--Herman Hesse

Don't find love, let love find you. 
That's why it's called falling in love, 
because you don't force yourself to fall, 
you just fall.
--Unknown

Not loving is but 
a long dying.
--Wu Ti

So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life.
--William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"

It takes a minute to have a crush 
on someone, an hour to like someone, 
and an day to love someone... but it 
takes a lifetime to forget someone.
--Unknown

I have loved to the point of madness;
That which is called madness,
That which to me,
Is the only sensible way to love.
--F. Sagan 

She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
--Byron 

Of all forms of caution, 
caution in love is the 
most fatal.
--Unknown 

One word frees us
Of all the weight and pain in life,
That word is Love
--Socrates

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
--Alice Walker

If a thing loves, 
it is infinite.
--William Blake

The enthusiasm of a woman's love 
is even beyond the biographer's.
--Jane Austen

When you like someone, you like them 
inspite of their faults. When you love 
someone, you love them with their faults.
--Elizabeth Cameron

The way to love anything is to 
realize that it might be lost.
--G. K. Chesterton

Woe to the man whose heart has not 
learned while young to hope, to 
love - and to put its trust in life.
--Joseph Conrad

Love is the expression of simplicity 
in emotion, the unattainable longing 
that comes so unexpectedly, with great 
subtlety and bliss.
--Luen Dao

The magic of first love is our 
ignorance that it can ever end.
--Benjamin Disraeli

Kindness in words creates confidence, 
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness, 
Kindness in giving creates love.
--Lao-Tze

The best way to know God 
is to love many things.
--Vincent Van Gogh

A man is a little thing while he works 
by and for himself; but when he gives 
voice to the rules of love and justice, 
he is godlike.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is like heaven, but 
it can hurt like hell.
--Unknown

It isn't possible to love and part... You can 
transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but 
you can never pull it out of you. I know from 
experience that the poets are right: love is 
eternal.
--E. M. Forester 

Love is that enviable state that knows no 
envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing 
to be greater than oneself.
--Joe McMahon

Listen to the love around you. 
Your ears are open even if your 
mind is closed.
--Unknown

Whom we love best, to them 
we can say least.
--English proverb

Love and you will be loved, 
and you will be able to do 
all that you could not do 
unloved.
--Marques de Santillana

If you open your heart, love opens your mind.
--Charles John Quarto, Eric Lowen, Dan

The joy of late love is like green firewood 
when set aflame, for the longer the wait in 
lighting, the greater heat it yields and the 
longer its force lasts.
--Chre'tien de Troyes

It is the special quality of love not 
to be able to remain stationary, to be 
obliged to increase under pain of 
diminishing.
--Andre Gide

Falling in love reminds you 
that nothing else matte.
--Unknown

Love is blind. That is why he 
always proceeds by touch.
--French Proverb

Love is broad; if you love someone, you 
love all things, not just their beauty. 
Love is narrow; you love one and only one, 
compared to them, no one matters.
--A. Braxton

I believe that to truly Love, 
is the ultimate expression of 
the will to live. A heart that
truly loves is forever young.
--Unknown

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild 
dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, 
no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor 
and peace and pure living - yes, love is that 
and it is the best thing in the world and the 
thing that lives the longest.
--Henry Van Dyke

He who is in love is wise and is becoming 
wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the 
object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes 
and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning to love yourself is the 
greatest love of all.
--Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Fall not in love, therefore; 
it will stick to your face.
--National Lampoon

The first duty of love is 
to listen.
--Paul Tillich

Love is not blind - it sees more, not 
less. But because it sees more, it is 
willing to see less.
--Rabbi Julius Gordon

For one human being to love another; 
that is perhaps the most difficult of 
all our tasks, the ultimate, the last 
test and proof, the work for which all 
other work is but preparation.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

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

I love the sun for days, 
the moon for night, and 
you forever.
--Unknown

When you really want love 
you will find it waiting 
for you.
--Oscar Wilde

Love is of all passions the strongest, 
for it attacks simultaneously the head, 
the heart, and the senses.
--Voltaire

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. 
It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real 
faint -- like a heartbeat. And pure love 
-- why, some days it's so quiet, you don't 
even know it's there.
--Erma Bombeck 

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, 
but the only cure for loneliness, despair, 
and hopelessness is love. There are many in 
the world who are dying for a piece of bread, 
but there are many more dying for a little love.
--Mother Teresa

Death is a challenge. It tells us 
not to waste time... It tells us to 
tell each other right now that we 
love each other.
--Leo F. Buscaglia

When you are in love with life nothing 
is to hard. Everything has freshness and 
reason, and all is as it is.
--Unknown

And think not you can direct the course 
of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, 
directs your course.
--Gibran Kahlil Gibran

Love is a wonderful thing. You never 
have to take it away from one person 
to give it to another. There's always 
more than enough to go around.
--Pamela de Roy

Love asks me no questions, 
and gives me endless support.
--William Shakespeare

A kiss is a lovely trick designed 
by nature to stop speech when 
words become superfluous.
--Ingrid Bergman

Love is like a rumor, everyone 
talks about it, but no one truly 
knows.
--Unknown

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate 
before it has cooled off. It takes you 
by surprise at first, but keeps you 
warm for a long time.
--Unknown

My love for you is a journey; 
starting at forever, 
and ending at never.
--Unknown

Love is a haunting melody
That I have never mastered
And I fear I never will.
--William S. Burroughs

A fool in love makes no sense 
to me. I only think you are a 
fool if you do not love.
--Unknown

The more you love someone the more he 
wants from you and the less you have 
to give since you've already given him 
your love.
--Nikki Giovanni

Some people never say the words 
'I love you' for like a child 
they are longing to be told.
--Paul Simon, "Something So Right" 

In love you best allies 
remain the unspoken words.
--Jacques Pierre Ribault

They do not love that do 
not show their love.
--William Shakespeare

Find the person who will love you 
because of your differences and not 
in spite of them and you have found 
a lover for life.
--Leo Buscaglia.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
--William Shakespeare

Two things you should NEVER say to the 
one you love: "I love you, but..." and 
"If you loved me, you would..." Should 
you really qualify love with conditions?.
--Unknown

Love works in miracles every day: such 
as weakening the strong, and stretching 
the weak; making fools of the wise, and 
wise men of fools; favoring the passions, 
destroying reason, and in a word, turning 
everything topsy-turvy.
--Marguerite De Valois

I pay very little regard... to what any young 
person says on the subject of marriage. If they 
profess a disinclination for it, I only set it 
down that they have not yet seen the right person.
--Jane Austen

I believe in the sun even when it's not 
shining. I believe in love even when not 
feeling it. I believe in God even when 
He is silent.
--Unknown

The fruit of Silence is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer is Faith
The fruit of Faith is Love
The fruit of Love is Service
The fruit of Service is Peace.
--Mother Teresa

Patience with others is Love, 
Patience with self is Hope, 
Patience with God is Faith.
--Adel Bestavros

Once you love, you cannot take it 
back, cannot undo it. What you felt 
may have changed, shifted slightly, 
yet still remains love.
--Whitney Otto

Joy is the experience of knowing that 
you are unconditionally loved and that 
nothing - sickness, failure, emotional 
distress, oppression, war, or even death
- can take that love away.
--Henri Nouwen

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, 
My love as deep; the more I give to thee 
The more I have, for both are infinite.
--Shakespeare

Love is like playing the piano. 
First you must learn to play by 
the rules, then you must forget 
the rules and play from your heart.
--Unknown

To love someone means to see 
him as God intended him.
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Heaven is the perfect, 
unconditional love for 
another.
--Unknown

Wicked men obey from fear; 
good men, from love.
--Aristotle

Love can find an entrance, 
not only into an open heart,
but also into a heart well 
fortified, if watch be not 
well kept.
--Unknown

To write a good love letter, you ought 
to begin without knowing what you mean 
to say, and finish without knowing what 
you have written.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau

If love is great, and there are no 
greater things, then what I feel 
for you must be the greatest.
--Unknown

You will find as you look back upon your 
life that the moments when you have truly 
lived, are the moments when you have done 
things in the spirit of love.
--Henry Drummond

Hopeless romantics are only hopeless 
in the eyes of those who don't believe 
in romance.
--Unknown

You know its love when all you want 
is that person to be happy, even if 
you're not part of their happiness.
--Unknown

Sometimes it's hard to love someone 
because you're so afraid of losing them
--Unknown

Every rose has its thorn... but 
every thorn has a rose too.
--Ashley Martin

Each morning as I awaken, you are 
the reason I smile, You are the 
reason I love.
--Jerry Burton

If you want to experience love, 
you have to take the risk. 
Love's always worth the risk.
--Unknown

You love simply because 
you cannot help it.
--Kim Anderson

The greatest healing therapy 
is friendship and love.
--Hubert Humprey

Hearts are not to be had as a gift
earts are to be earned...
--William Butler Yeats 

True love doesn't have a happy ending:
True love doesn't have an ending.
--Unknown

Love is not a matter of counting 
the years... But making the years 
count.
--Michelle St. Amand 

Only love let's us see normal things
in an extraordinary way.
--Unknown

A heart that loves is always young.
--Greek Proverb

To get the full value of joy you 
must have someone to divide it with.
--Mark Twain

Love is, above all else, 
the gift of oneself.
--Jean Anouilh

He taught me how to love,
but not how to stop.
--Unknown

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, 
without expecting anything in return. To just 
give. That takes courage, because we don't want 
to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to 
hurt.
--Madonna

Love is the big booming beat which 
covers up the noise of hate.
--Margaret Cho

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're 
thinking about her. Doesn't care you're 
thinking about her. Makes you think about 
her even more.
--Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra 
and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you 
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
--Matt Groening

I don’t think anyone can DO anything that 
would make him worthy of love. Love is a 
gift and cannot be earned. It can only be 
given.
--Real Live Preacher

Love doesn't sit there like a stone.
It has to be made like bread;
Remade all the time, ...made new.
--Le Guin 

If I know what love is, 
it is because of you.
--Herman Hesse 

You may only be one person 
to the world but you may also 
be the world to one person.
--Unknown

Everyone admits that love is wonderful 
and necessary, yet no one agrees on 
just what it is.
--Diane Ackerman

The fate of love is that it always 
seems too little or too much.
--Unknown

There is an important difference between 
love and friendship. While the former 
delights in extremes and opposites, the 
latter demands equality. 
--Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon

True happiness and a fullness of joy can be found 
only in the tender and intimate relationships of 
the family. However earnestly we may seek success 
and happiness outside the home through work, leisure 
activities, or large bank accounts, we will never 
be fully satisfied emotionally until we develop deep 
and loving relationships.
--James J. Jones Ph.D.


It is the things in common
that make relationships enjoyable,
but it is the little differences
that make them interesting.
--Todd Ruthman 

Love is always open arms. If you close 
your arms about love you will find that 
you are left holding only yourself.
--Leo Buscaglia 

My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
--Frederick Saunders

The heart is the place where we live 
our passions. It is frail and easily 
broken, but wonderfully resilient. 
There is no point in trying to deceive 
the heart. It depends upon our honesty 
for its survival.
--Leo Buscaglia (Born For Love)

A good marriage is like a casserole,
only those responsible for it really
know what goes in it.
--Unknown

Accept the things to which fate binds you, 
and love the people with whom fate brings 
you together, but do so with all your heart.
--Marcus Aurelius

If it is your time, love will track 
you down like a cruise missile.
--Lynda Barry

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

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, 
and very important.
--Lisa Hoffman

To love someone deeply gives you 
strength. Being loved by someone 
deeply gives you courage.
--Lao Tzu

You don't love a woman because 
she's beautiful, she is beautiful 
because you love her.
--Unknown

I have loved to the point of madness, 
that which is called madness, that which 
to me, is the only sensible way to love.
--F. Sagan

There is no instinct like 
that of the heart.
--Lord Byron

An act of love that fails is just as 
much a part of the divine life as an 
act of love that succeeds, for love is 
measured by fullness, not by reception.
--Harold Loukes

Love is the triumph of 
imagination over intelligence.
--H. L. Mencken

We cannot really love 
anybody with whom we 
never laugh.
--Agnes Repplier

The lover knows much more about 
absolute good and universal beauty 
than any logician or theologian, 
unless the latter, too, be lovers 
in disguise.
--George Santayana

Trouble is a part of your life, and 
if you don't share it, you don't give 
the person that loves you enough chance 
to love you enough.
--Dinah Shore

Love is stronger than justice.
--Sting

I have found the paradox that 
if I love until it hurts, then 
there is no hurt, but only more 
love.
--Mother Teresa

Who, being loved, is poor?
--Oscar Wilde

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 
a miracle.
--Marianne Williamson

If a relationship is to evolve, 
it must go through a series of 
endings.
--Lisa Moriyama

I believe love is primarily a choice and 
only sometimes a feeling. If you want to 
feel love, choose to love and be patient.
--Real Live Preacher

Love unexpressed is a 
crime against the heart.
--Unknown 

Work is love made visible. And if 
you cannot work with love but only 
with distaste, it is better that you 
should leave your work and sit at the 
gate of the temple and take alms of 
those who work with joy.
--Kahlil Gibran

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 Rouchefoucald

The more you judge, 
the less you love.
--Unknown

Promise me you'll never forget me 
because if I thought you would I'd 
never leave!
--Unknown

No, this trick wont work... How on 
earth are you ever going to explain 
in terms of chemistry and physics so 
important a biological phenomenon as 
first love?
--Albert Einstein

No one has ever loved anyone 
the way everyone wants to be 
loved.
--Unknown

My mind tells me to give up, 
but my heart won't let me.
--Jennifer Tyler

It is terrible to be alone, 
and it is terrible to be in 
love, but one is cheaper 
than the other.
--Unknown

You can't love anyone until you understand 
that you can't love everyone.
--Real Live Preacher

I love you - those three words 
have my life in them.
--Alexandrea to Nicholas III

It is difficult to know at what 
moment love begins; it is less 
difficult to know that it has 
begun.
--Unknown

You can give without loving,
But you cannot love without giving.
--Amy Carmichael 

To love is to receive a 
glimpse of heaven.
--Karen Sunde 

Love doesn't make the world go round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
--Elizabeth Browning 

If I go away
What would still remain of me?
The ghost within your eyes?
The whisper in your sighs?
You see... Believe
And I'm always there.
--Jon Oliva 

There's a lot to be said for 
self-delusionment when it comes 
to matters of the heart.
--Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The greatest weakness of most humans
is their hesitancy to tell others, 
how much they love them while they're 
alive.
--O. A. Battista

My love, you know you are my best friend.
You know that I'd do anything for you
and my love, let nothing come between us.
My love for you is strong and true.
--Sarah McLachlan

The best feelings are those that
have no words to describe them...
--Michelle Hammersley

We are all born for love...
it is the principle existence 
and it's only end.
--Disraeli

We can only learn to 
love by loving.
--Iris Murdoch

May no gift be too small to give,
nor too simple to receive,
which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
and tied with love.
--L. O. Baird

Love is the master key that 
opens the gates of happiness.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing 
how blind that was. Lovers don't finally 
meet somewhere. They're in each other all 
along.
--Maulana Jalalu'ddin Rumi

Love is a fruit in season at 
all times, and within the reach 
of every hand.
--Mother Teresa 

Since love grows within you, 
so beauty grows. For love is 
the beauty of the soul.
--St. Augustine

Faith makes all things possible.
Love makes them easy.
--Unknown

What the heart gives away is 
never gone... It is kept in the 
hearts of others.
--Robin St. John

The human heart, at whatever age,
opens to the heart that opens in 
return.
--Maria Edgeworth

Is it better for a woman to 
marry a man who loves her
than a man she loves.
--Unknown

Love, you know, seeks to make 
happy rather than to be happy.
--Ralph Connor

True love is eternal, infinite, and 
always like itself. It is equal and 
pure, without violent demonstrations: 
it is seen with white hairs and is 
always young in the heart.
--Honore de Balzac

The greatest tragedy of life is 
not that men perish, but that 
they cease to love.
--W. Somerset Maugham 

Listening is an attitude of the heart, 
a genuine desire to be with another which 
both attracts and heals.
--J. Isham 

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures 
of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and 
reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.
--Joseph Addison (The Spectator Magazine)

Lucky is the man who is the first 
love of a woman, but luckier is the 
woman who is the last love of a man.
--Unknown

Love does not die easily.
It is a living thing.
It thrives in the face
of all life's hazards,
save one--neglect.
--James Bryden

Some pray to marry the man they love,
my prayer will somewhat vary:
I humbly pray to Heaven above
that I love the man I marry.
--Rose Stokes

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs 
to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be 
fed out of the oil of another's heart, or 
its flame burns low.
--Henry Ward Beecher 


The person who tries to live alone will not 
succeed as a human being. His heart withers 
if it does not answer another heart. His mind 
shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of 
his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
--Pearl S. Buck

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 hopes, always perseveres.
--1 Corinthians 13:4-7

All love that has not friendship for 
its base, is like a mansion built upon 
the sand.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is the emblem of eternity: it 
confounds all notion of time: effaces 
all memory of a beginning, all fear of 
an end.
--Germaine De Stael

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
~ by Samuel Lover ~

The life and love we create is 
the life and love we live.
--Leo Buscaglia

Love looks through a telescope; 
envy through a microscope.
--Josh Billings

For every beauty there is an eye 
somewhere to see it. For every truth 
there is an ear somewhere to hear it. 
For every love there is a heart 
somewhere to receive it.
--Ivan Panin 

A goal, a love and a dream give 
you total control over your body 
and your life.
--John Wayne Schlatter 


True love begins when nothing 
is looked for in return.
--Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

In dreams and in love there 
are no impossibilities.
--Janos Arany

Just because someone doesn't love you
in the way you want them to, doesn't 
mean that they don't love you with all 
they've got.
--Unknown

Love withers with predictability; 
its very essence is surprise and 
amazement. To make love a prisoner 
of the mundane is to take its 
passion and lose it forever.
--Leo Buscaglia

A man falls in love through his eyes,
a woman through her ears.
--Woodrow Wyatt

Love is the beginning of 
all the joy which nature 
has store for us.
--Unknown

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, 
the perverseness of forty surrounding 
families cannot prevent her. Something 
must and will happen to throw a hero in 
her way.
--Jane Austen

Love means to commit oneself without 
guarantee, to give oneself completely 
in the hope that our love will produce 
love in the loved person. Love is an 
act of faith, and whoever is of little 
faith is also of little love.
--Erich Fromm

You come to love not by finding the 
perfect person, but by seeing an 
imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, 
willingly, and without expectation... We 
don't love to be loved; we love to love.
--Leo Buscaglia

Love grows by giving. The love we give 
away is the only love we keep. The only 
way to retain love is to give it away.
--Elbert Hubbard

The most powerful symptom of love 
is a tenderness which becomes at 
times almost insupportable.
--Victor Hugo 

Inside the heart of each and every one 
of us there is a longing to be understood 
by someone who really cares. When a person 
is understood, he or she can put up with 
almost anything in the world.
--Rev Ed Hird 

There is only one happiness in 
life: to love and be loved.
--George Sand 

Love is an act of endless forgiveness
A tender look which becomes a habit.
--Peter Ustinov

The best and most beautiful things in 
this world cannot be seen or even heard, 
but must be felt with the heart.
--Helen Keller

The courses of true love 
never did run smooth.
--William Shakespeare

But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
--Walter Raleigh

Never pretend to a love which you 
do not actually feel, for love is 
not ours to command.
--Alan Watts

To love deeply in one direction 
makes us more loving in all others.
--Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Perhaps the feelings that we experience 
when we are in love represent a normal 
state. Being in love shows a person who 
he should be.
--Anton Chekhov

To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life are 
already three parts dead.
--Bertrand Russell

Love is not enough. It must be the 
foundation, the cornerstone - but 
not the complete structure. It is 
much too pliable, too yielding.
--Bette Davis

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, 
too; this is why a great and clear mind 
loves ardently and sees distinctly what 
it loves.
--Blaise Pascal

The meeting of two personalities is like 
the contact of two chemical substances: 
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
--Carl Jung

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut 
butter quite like unrequited love.
--Charles M. Schulz

To love and be loved is to feel 
the sun from both sides.
--David Viscott

All love that has not friendship 
for its base, is like a mansion 
built upon sand.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is everything it's cracked up to 
be... It really is worth fighting for, 
being brave for, risking everything for.
--Erica Jong

When love is in excess it brings a 
man nor honor nor any worthiness.
--Euripides

There is always some madness in love. 
But there is also always some reason 
in madness.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

What else is love but understanding and 
rejoicing in the fact that another person 
lives, acts, and experiences otherwise 
than we do...?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, 
you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. 
A beautiful girl walked into your life. You 
fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only 
a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief 
moment of vanity.
--Henry Bromel

There is no remedy for love 
but to love more.
--Henry David Thoreau

And the trouble is if you don't 
risk anything, you risk even more.
--Erica Jong

Beauty is not in the face; 
beauty is a light in the heart.
--Kahlil Gibran

Being deeply loved by someone gives 
you strength while loving someone 
deeply gives you courage.
--Lao Tzu

Didn't you know that people hide 
love like a flower too precious 
to be picked?
--Wu Ti

Doubt that the stars are fire; 
Doubt that the sun doth move; 
Doubt truth to be a liar; 
But never doubt I love. 
--William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
 
For those who love... 
time is eternity...
--Henry Van Dyke

Friendship at first sight, 
like love at first sight 
is said to be the only truth.
--Herman Melville

Just because you love someone doesn’t 
mean you have to be involved with them. 
Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
--Hugh Elliott

Passion makes the world go round. 
Love just makes it a safer place.
--Ice T, The Ice Opinion

Love is the difficult realization 
that something other than oneself 
is real.
--Iris Murdoch

Friendship is certainly the finest balm 
for the pangs of disappointed love.
--Jane Austen

Age does not protect you from love. 
But love, to some extent, protects 
you from age.
--Jeanne Moreau

Is love supposed to last throughout 
all time, or is it like trains changing 
at random stops. If I loved her, how could 
I leave her? If I felt that way then, how 
come I don't feel anything now?
--Jeff Melvoin

True love brings up everything - you're 
allowing a mirror to be held up to you 
daily.
--Jennifer Aniston

Love is the delightful interval between 
meeting a beautiful girl and discovering 
that she looks like a haddock.
--John Barrymore

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. 
In space, there's not any gravity. You just 
kind of leave your feet and go floating around. 
Is that what being in love is like?
--Josh Brand and John Falsey

How we treasure (and admire) the 
people who acknowledge us!
--Julie Morgenstern

Honesty is the only way with anyone, 
when you'll be so close as to be 
living inside each other's skins.
--Lois McMaster Bujold

When you give each other everything, 
it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
--Lois McMaster Bujold

Real love is a permanently 
self-enlarging experience.
--M. Scott Peck

Before I met my husband, I'd never 
fallen in love, though I'd stepped 
in it a few times.
--Rita Rudner

Love is an irresistable desire to 
be irresistably desired.
--Robert Frost

Love is or it ain't. Thin love 
ain't love at all.
--Toni Morrison

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. 
If we could decide who we loved, it 
would be much simplier, but much less 
magical.
--Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Life's greatest happiness is to 
be convinced we are loved.
--Victor Hugo

A woman can forgive a man for the harm 
he does her... but she can never forgive 
him for the sacrifices he makes on her 
account.
--W. Somerset Maugham

Never marry but for love; but see 
that thou lovest what is lovely.
--William Penn

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
--William Shakespeare

There's always one who loves and 
one who lets himself be loved.
--W. Somerset Maugham

You can't buy love, but you 
can pay heavily for it.
--Henny Youngman