"I cannot express no kinder sign of love than this kiss" William Shakespeare
"Love is much like a wild rose; beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense" Mark A. Overby
"Greater Love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends." Jesus
"Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; even love unreturned has its rainbow." Eaton Stannard Barret
"If I know what love is, it is because of you". Hermann Hesse
"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." William Blake
"It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving". Richard Braunstein
"Love is a light that shines from heart to heart." John Denver
"True love is rare, so when you find it don't let it go just because of a barrier you can't cross". Ray H Wall
"How do you know it's love? I don't know, but it lasts forever." Van Halen
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
"The throb of life is love. Without it, humans are bodies of bones clad with skin". Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 80
"The love we give away is the only love we keep". Elbert Hubbard
"Thou art to me a delicious torment." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love". Sophocles
"Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast". Mark Twain
"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
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." Josiah G. Holland
"Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything..." Raul and Samantha Juarez
"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
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Teresa
"Love is our true destiny". Thomas Merton
"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, Outside the Dog Museum
"Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life." Charles Stanley (A Man's Touch)
"The course of true love never did run smooth". William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream (I, i, 134)
"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 the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other." Felix Adler
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix
"True love is the only heart disease that is best left to run on". Mark Twain
"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise." Victor Hugo
"Love is like a knife, it can stab the heart or it can carve wonderful images into the soul that will last a lifetime."
"Love is a word, what matters is the connection that word implies". The Matrix Revolutions
"Love Does Not Fail For You When You Are Rejected or Betrayed or Apparently Not Loved. Love Fails For You When You Reject, Betray, and Do Not Love". Adi Da
"I never knew dawn could break With peace so deep and hope so wide, Till that first morning when I awoke, And you lay sleeping by my side." Robert Sexton
"An old man who marries a young wife grows younger - but she grows older." Folk
"To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess." H.L. Mencken
"Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock." Mary Parrish
"To be in love is to love an ideal within yourself. To love is to love no ideal but love within itself." James Stephen Cathcart
"Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lost, and all that we hate we will eventually face". F. Sionil Jose The Mass
"Where there is love, distance doesn't matter". Mata Amritanandamayi
"To the world you may be one person, But to one person you may be the world." Bill Wilson
"Love is as unproblematic as a vehicle. The only problems are the drivers, the passengers and the road". Franz Kafka
"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality". Victor Frankl
"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". Edmond de Goncourt (1822-96) and Jules de Goncourt (1830-70), French writers. The Goncourt Journals (1888-96; repr. in Pages from the Goncourt Journal, ed. by Robert Baldick, 1962), entry for 15 Nov. 1859.
"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." William Shakespeare
"Love me for love's sake, that evermore thou may'st love on, through love's eternity'". Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness." Ellen Goodman
"Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle...rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be."
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Love: A term which has no meaning if defined". John Ralston Saul in The Doubter's Companion
"Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were." Kahlil Gibran
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin
"Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit. Translation: The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them". Syrus Publilius
"Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil". Goethe
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." William M. Thackeray
"The power of a glance... It is in this way that love begins, and in this way only... Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark." Victor Hugo
"Love knows no reasons, love knows no lies. Love defies all reasons, love has no eyes. But love is not blind, love sees but doesn't mind."
"The reduction of the universe to a single being, The expansion of a single being even to God, this is love." Victor Hugo
"Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell."
"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love". Pearl Bailey
"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient". Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary
"Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, and sometimes it hurts." Victor M. Garcia Jr.
"My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me." Jennifer Tyler
"There will be a moment when you're eyes meet and everything in the world is simple again." Michael Edwards
"Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love." Anonymous
"What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of others." Robin St. John
"If I had my way We'd sleep every night Wrapped around each other Like hibernating rattlesnakes." William S. Burroughs
"To love another person is to see the face of God". Les Miserables the Musical
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." Barbara DeAngelis
"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance". Oscar Wilde
"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 most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident." Sir Hugh Walpoe
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." Jorge Luis Borges
"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it." Christian Nestell Bovee
"It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind." William Shakespeare
"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." Washington Irwing
"Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love." Antiphanes
"The most eloquent silence, That of two mouths meeting in a kiss."
"True understanding is deeper in meaning than mere words, and is important for its result, not petty rhetoric. Those who can verbalize their happiness have little happiness to speak of. My love has grown so much that I can't tell even half of it in words". Unknown (paraphrasing William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
"Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth." Ben Oliver
"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt my love". William Shakespeare in Hamlet, Act ii, Sc.2
"This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love". Gerald Massey
"For every lover is, in his head, a madman and in his heart a minstrel" Neil Gaiman
"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life." Merle Shan
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." Erica Jong
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." Mother Teresa
"This is the very ecstasy of love" William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act ii, Sc.1
"Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker" Anonymous
"Love and eggs are best when they are fresh". Russian proverb
"What's love, but a second-hand emotion". Tina Turner
"Love is like a river, always changing, but always finding you again somewhere down the road." Kelly Elaine
"Self-love seems so often unrequited". Anthony Powell
"So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no lives." William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
"Love is the delusion that one woman is different from another". Oscar Wilde
"Love is the most beautiful gift we are given to share". Anonymous
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own". "* "Alternate version; Love: the condition in which the welfare and happiness of another becomes essential to your own. Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb". Robert Browning
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." Aristotle
"Love is when the woman of your dreams becomes a reality and sleep stops being a priority."
"Loving someone is giving them the power to hurt you, but trusting them not to". Anonymous
"If you have it, 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 thy neighbor as thyself". Leviticus 19:18
"Strephon kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Strephon's kiss was lost in jest, Robin's lost in play, But the kiss in Colin's eyes Haunts me night and day." Sara Teasdale
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." Thomas Fuller
"Hell is the suffering of being unable to love". Dostoyevsky
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love". John 4:18
"He who love touches walks not in darkness." Plato
"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 (1908-89), U.S. screen actor. The Lonely Life, ch. 19 (1962).
"Reason and love are sworn enemies." Pierre Corneille
"With love and patience, nothing is impossible". Daisaku Ikeda
"A man over time falls in love with the woman he is attracted to, and a woman over time becomes more attracted to the man she loves." Jennifer Wilkinson
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." Henry David Thoreau
"Love is not a matter of counting the years... But making the years count." Michelle St. Amand
"What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose." Henry Ward Beecher
"Stay with me flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love". Alternate translation: "Strengthen me with flagons of wine, refresh me with apples; for sick of love am I." Song of Solomon 2:5
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." Victor Hugo
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love". Albert Einstein
"A heart that loves is always young." Greek Proverb
Love that well which thou must leave ere long" William Shakespeare in Sonnet 73
"But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding
"Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori". Translation "Love conquers all; let us, too, surrender to love."
"Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself." Joe McMahon
"Then must you speak Of One that lov'd not wisely but too well". William Shakespeare in Othello (V, ii, 343-344)
"Hell's afloat in lover's tears." Anonymous
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." Alexander Smith
"A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one." Guy de Maupassant
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." Anonymous
"He is not a lover who does not love forever". Euripides
"Love is like p -- natural, irrational, and very important". Lisa Hoffman
"Love said, 'Lie still and think of me'. Sleep said, 'Close your eyes till break of day'. But Dreams came by, and smilingly gave both to Love and Sleep their way." Sara Teasdale
"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."
"Love is a minefield. You take a step and get blown to pieces, put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step. I guess that's human nature. It hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow up than be single". Kate Welles (Famke Janssen) in Love & Sex (2000)
"For those who love... time is eternity..." Henry Van Dyke
"If their smile warms your heart, embrace eases you, and kiss distills all wrong done to man, then you know that you have found true love."
"Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end, always found with no regrets, forever valued and kept treasured."
"For those who love... time is eternity..." Henry Van Dyke
"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
"Don't wait for the one you can live with, wait for the one you can't live without."
"Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better". William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night (Act III, Scene I).
"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 is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived". [William Parrish] from the movie, Meet Joe Black (1998)
"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
"Love from one side hurts, but love from two sides heals." William Shakespeare
" The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury". Francis Bacon
"True love always involves a choice". Ray H Wall
"I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found". John Forbes Nash, in A Beautiful Mind
"When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults." Elizabeth Cameron
"Sweet, above thought I love thee". William Shakespeare in Troilus & Cressida, Act iii, Sc.1
"Life is a journey from one point to another. You know where you will end up, but you don't know what route will get you there." Jennifer Robinson
"It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it." Margaret Kennedy
"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime." Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
"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
Category: Love Notes | Added by: luisag (2009-03-01)
| Author: Luis Graulau
