Symphony Of Love

Symphony of LoveA Timeless Collection of Love Quotes

Boon Kiat Chua

Symphony of Love

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To my beloved father, Chua Ngak Chua,

who passed away on March 29, 2006 and

to my loving mother, Tan Juay Eng.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Symphony of Love has been a special project, brought to fruition

through the perseverance, effort and moral support from some

very special people. I am deeply grateful to my family and friends

who have been giving me moral support throughout this project.

It made me believe that in dreams and in love, nothing is

impossible.

I express special thanks:

- to Wen Liang Chay for agreeing to help me with the editing of

this Ebook at such short notice, for providing valuable advice and

for suggesting a great title for this Ebook.

- to Hong Lee Toh, Leong Soon Poh, Chia Kian Chye, Ken Oh &

his wife Yi On Chan for the moral support along the way.

- to Victor Sim for the many valuable lessons and advice on the

internet, which made this project possible in the first place.

- to Siew Kiat Chan for the last minute advice on the web page.

- to Iris Ho and Jocelyn Lim for agreeing to look through the book

and website even before it gets online.

- and most of all, to my wonderful parents, Chua Ngak Chua and

Tan Juay Eng for their patience, love and guidance from day one;

to my brother Boon Howe Chua and my sister Wan Yi Chua & her

good husband Kee Hong and their three beautiful children, Yong

Ling, Yong Li and Yong Chuan.

Thank you to all for helping make this happen.

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard,

but must be felt with the heart.

-- Helen Keller

Symphony of Love A Timeless Collection of Love Quotes

Boon Kiat Chua

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger

for bread.

-- Mother Teresa

We can do no great things; only

small things with great love.

-- Mother Teresa

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

-- Mother Teresa

It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing

that matters.

-- Mother Teresa

Love is repaid by love alone!

-- Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no

hurt, but only more love.

-- Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have

no time to love them.

-- Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door

neighbor.

-- Mother Teresa

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

-- Mother Teresa

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

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever

come to you without leaving happier.

-- Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

-- Mother Teresa

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your

family.

-- Mother Teresa

If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart

the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.

-- Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to

love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve

the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own

home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love

for each other must start.

-- Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning

of love.

-- Mother Teresa

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love

with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

-- Abraham Lincoln

The laws of gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

-- Albert Einstein

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

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a

minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's

two hours. That's relativity.

-- Albert Einstein

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a

child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of

absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

-- American President George W. Bush

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

-- William Shakespeare

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten

them, but not for love.


Love is not love that

alters when it alteration finds.


If thou remember not

the slightest folly into which loves hast made thee run, thou hast not

loved.


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.


If music be the food of love, play on.


“Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more

temperate ... When in eternal lines to time thou growst, So long as men can

breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”


Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support...


Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.


The courses of true love never did run smooth.


So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, lives no life.


To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eyes I eyed, such

seems your beauty still.


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

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the

faithless who know love's tragedies.

-- Oscar Wilde

Where there is no exaggeration

there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

-- Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

-- Oscar Wilde

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

-- Oscar Wilde

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

-- Oscar Wilde

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

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

-- Elbert Hubbard

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in

the present.

-- Marianne Williamson

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

You can love completely without complete understanding.

-- Norman Maclean

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your

heart, I’ll stay there forever.

-- Winnie the Pooh

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be

felt with the heart.

-- Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do

not see the one which has been opened for us.

-- Helen Keller

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

-- Helen Keller

Sweet are the words of Love, sweeter his

thoughts: Sweetest of all what Love nor

says nor thinks.

-- Richard Garnett

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone

deeply gives you courage.

-- Lao Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates

profoundness. Kindness in giving

creates love.

-- Lao Tzu

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

-- Elizabeth Ashley

Love is composed of a single soul

inhabiting two bodies.

-- Aristotle

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

-- Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love.

-- Charlie Brown

Love is something eternal; the aspect

may change, but not the essence.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever

loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done

in love is done well.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire

universe, deserve your love and affection.

-- Buddha

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed

develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And

let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

-- Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be

shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

-- Buddha

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

-- Saint Augustine

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

-- Saint Augustine

Love is not just looking at each other; it's looking in the same direction.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is only with the heart that one can

see rightly; what is essential is invisible

to the eye.


True love begins when nothing is

looked for in return.


Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to

replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.

It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of

tarnishing.

-- Anais Nin

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

-- Francois Mauriac

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter

enters, the former makes its exit.

-- Alexandre Dumas

Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.

-- Julie Marie

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

-- Vipin Sharma

True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning

to see an imperfect person perfectly.

- Jason Jordan

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

-- Confucius

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

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

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

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 is always open arms. If you

close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only

yourself.

-- Leo Buscaglia

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

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a

listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which

have the potential to turn a life around.

-- Leo Buscaglia

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 Buscaglia

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

-- Leo Buscaglia

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated

and more intoxicating!

-- Leo Buscaglia

True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending.

-- K. Knight

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people

have been looking for each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

-- Amy Bloom

Marriage is not a ritual or an end.

It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters

more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

-- Amy Bloom

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

-- Franklin P. Jones

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the

delight in the recognition.

-- Alexander Smith

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the

more tender things.

-- Marcel Proust

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

-- Marcel Proust

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the

woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart

of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

-- Marcel Proust

People who are not in love fail to

understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary

woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature as insignificant as

the comma bacillus.

-- Marcel Proust

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

-- Victor Hugo

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

-- Victor Hugo

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that

eternal relic of the human heart, love.

-- Victor Hugo

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at

times almost insupportable.

-- Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

-- Victor Hugo

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.

-- Jeanne Moreau

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

-- Brandan Behan

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

-- Janos Arnay

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both

take practice.

-- Nora Roberts

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

-- Benjamin Franklin

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.


I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of

everybody.


Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.


In love of home, the love of country has

its rise.

-- Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

-- Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and

a touch that never hurts.

-- Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

-- Charles Dickens

It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you

are not.

-- Andre Gide

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along

a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.

-- Andre Gide

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

Never let a problem to be solved

becomes more important than a person to be loved.

-- Barbara Johnson

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

-- Mae West

A woman has got to love a bad

man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

-- Mae West

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

-- G.W. Von Leibnitz

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can

do with a single thread.

-- Robert Burton

Love isn't just for the smart or talented, but for all the animals

God created.

-- Sarah Wonders

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to

their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

-- Albert Camus

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical

substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

-- Carl Jung

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have

to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

-- Lucille Ball

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

-- Andre Maurois

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things

to get himself envied.

-- Mark Twain

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man

or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been

married a quarter of a century.

-- Mark Twain

To get the full value of joy you

must have someone to

divide it with.

-- Mark Twain

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

-- Mark Twain

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

-- Andrew Sullivan

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love

of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning,

unquenchable.


Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.


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.


And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have

everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and

gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.

-- D.H. Lawrence

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting

passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

-- C.S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a

steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be

obtained.

-- C.S. Lewis

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women

who love me.

-- George Bernard Shaw

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.


First love is only a little foolishness

and a lot of curiosity. -- George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.


We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the

purest courtesy in the outward behavior.


Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the

ideal never goes unpunished.


That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have

loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.


There is no remedy for love but to love more.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that

when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you

love them enough.

-- George Washington

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

-- Theodore M Hesburgh

Where we love is home, home that our feet

may leave, but not our hearts.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.


The sound of a kiss is not as loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.


Love is needing to be loved.

-- John Lennon

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

-- John Lennon

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too

often when I loved, I did not say so.

-- David Grayson

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;

love is a growing up.

-- James Baldwin

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we

cannot live within.

-- James Baldwin

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

-- James Baldwin

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All

are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

Ever has it been that love knows not its own

depth until the hour of separation.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

-- Kahlil Gibran

And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds

you worthy, shall guide your course.

-- Kahlil Gibran

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

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the

biggest difference in the quality of your life.

-- Anthony Robbins

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

-- Donald Laird

In true love the smallest distance is too great,

and the greatest distance can be bridged.

-- Hans Nouwens

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is

the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the

greater part of their lives.

-- Bertrand Russell

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to

love - and to put its trust in life.

-- Joseph Conrad

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need

you because I love you.’

-- Erich Fromm

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.

-- Erich Fromm

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

-- Erich Fromm

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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

-- Blaise Pascal

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

-- Josh Billings

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

-- G. K. Chesterton

Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.

-- G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

-- G. K. Chesterton

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

-- H L Mencken

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

-- Robert Lee Frost

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

-- Sophocles

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

-- Lily Tomlin

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 Aelius Aurelius

We need not think alike to love alike.

-- Francis David

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.


Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.


He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.


To write a good love letter, you ought to

begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without

knowing what you have written.

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

-- Alicia Barnhart

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; yet the life of a whole life die when love is done.

-- Francis William Bourdillon

Money can't buy love, but it improves your

bargaining position.

-- Christopher Marlowe

Make me immortal with a kiss.


Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a

thousand stars.


The greatest pleasure of life is love.

-- William Temple

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at

something you hate.

-- George Burns

All's fair in love and war.

-- Francis Edwards

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

-- Judy Garland

Who so loves believes the impossible.

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The giving of love is an education in itself.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.

-- Crystal Middlemas

Love is like a mustard seed; planted by God and watered by men.

-- Muda Saint Michael

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

-- George Sand

Love's always a little lonely in the beginning.

-- Sir Douglas

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

-- Dr. John Gray

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes

everywhere in the world.

-- David Levesque

Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to

understand this. To be in love is to respect this.

-- Stephen Packer

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

-- Jules Renard

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

-- Elizabeth Bowen

Love is energy of life.

-- Robert Browning

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

-- Robert Browning

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.

-- Robert Browning

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

-- Brian Andres

Love is a canvas furnished by nature

and embroidered by imagination.

-- Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once

you get to the top the view is beautiful.

-- Daniel Monroe Tuttle

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign’s ruination.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

-- Will Moss

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love, there is life.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

-- Peter Ustinov

The first duty of love--is to listen.

-- Paul Tillich

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

-- Woody Allen

The magic of first love is our

ignorance that it can never end.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

We are all born for love... it is the

principle existence and it's only end.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and

those who haven't.

-- Bill Cosby

I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood

before. My heart has left its dwelling place … and can return no more.

-- John Clare

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.

-- Britney Spears

When you like someone, you like them in spite of

their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

-- Elizabeth Cameron

Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.

-- Wilhelm Stekel

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

-- Bill Wilson

Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters.

-- William Curry

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts

away.

-- Dorothy Parker

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we

wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they

loved them.

-- Christopher Morley

Love is something you can’t describe like the look of a rose, the smell of the rain, or the feeling of forever.

-- Kristen Kappel

Love is when you look into someone’s

eyes, and see everything you need.

-- Kristen Kappel

Love is not needing a snooze button on your alarm clock because when it goes off the first time in the morning the thoughts of your loved one make it

impossible to fall back asleep.

-- Natasha Harris

The best things in life can never be kept; they must be given away. A

Smile, a Kiss, and Love.

-- Tony Farrar

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our

higher potential finds us when we

set our course in that direction. The power of love and

compassion transforms insecurity.

-- Doc Childre

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover

must struggle for words.

-- T.S. Eliot

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

-- Igor Stravinsky

Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.

-- J. Ghetto

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.

-- Unforgettable with Love by Natalie Cole

Love never claims it ever gives.

-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

...A simple I love you means more than money...

-- Frank Sinatra

Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty,

often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love become as

coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

-- Bruce Lee

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

-- Herman Hesse

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

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

-- Thomas Fuller

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

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

-- Josiah G. Holland

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

-- Lope de Vega

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say

can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

-- Robert Sexton

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it...you and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have

seen thee and thou art enough.

-- George Moore

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

-- Mignon McLaughlin

... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a

part of you will forever be a part of me.

-- Gretchen Kemp

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

-- John Keats

I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.

-- Roy Croft

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes...

-- Elizabeth Barret Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach...

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

-- David Viscott

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

-- William M. Thackeray

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to

twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of

ourselves we find in them.

-- Thomas Merton

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of

these emotions we want.

-- Gerald Jampolsky

I only want to love once, but I want to love everybody for the rest of my life.

-- Lauren Ford

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

-- Barbara de Angelis

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many

things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no

matter what else there is, it's not enough.

-- Ann Landers

If you wish the world to become loving and

compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself.

-- Gary Zukav

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

-- Dalai Lama

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

-- Katharine Hepburn

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

-- Henry Miller

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

-- Robert Collier

The greatest possession we have costs nothing, it's known as love.

-- Brian Jett

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 a spirit of love.

-- Henry Drummond

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

-- Jean Anouilh

Real love is feeling like being a part of that person’s life almost isn’t enough. It’s more like a feeling that you would live in the same skin with them if you could and share every thought, heart

beat, and emotion as one.

-- Rod Cannon

Love is when you look into someone’s eyes and see their heart.

-- Jill Petty

A friend’s Love says: If you ever need anything, I’ll be there. True Love says:

You’ll never need anything; I’ll be there.

-- Jimi Hollemans

Love is a fire. But whether it is

going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

-- Joan Crawford

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished.

-- Og Mandino

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

The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!

-- Margaret Atwood

As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral... As love

accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end

product.

-- Sara Paddison

There is no disguise which can hide

love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We forgive to the extent that we love.


Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.


At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way.

All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything

was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

-- Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

I look at you looking at me, Now I know why the best things are free, How you’ve changed my world You’ll never know, I’m

different now, You’ve helped me grow.

-- Angel of Mine, a song by Monica

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

-- H.L. Mencken

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 cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

-- Dr. Karl Menninger

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

-- Barbara DeAngelis

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.

-- Barbara DeAngelis

Love is never

lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow

back and soften and purify the

heart.

-- Washington Irving

Love is a thing, well, it’s kind of like quicksand: The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And

when it hits you, you’ve just got to fall.

-- UB40

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each

include the other, each is enriched by the other.

-- Felix Adler

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

-- Alice Walker

Love is not a matter of counting the years...But making the years count.

-- Michelle St. Amand

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

-- Michelle Hammersley

Let the world stop turning, let the sun stop burning, let them tell me loves not

worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only

dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you.

-- Bette Midler

What the heart gives away is never gone ...It is kept in the hearts of others.

-- Robin St. John

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

-- Ralph Connor

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

-- Salmon P. Chase

The first great step is to like yourself

enough to pick someone who likes you, too.

-- Jane O'Reilly

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

-- Agnes Repplier

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words

become superfluous.

-- Ingrid Bergman

We can only learn to love by loving.

-- Iris Murdoch

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

-- Jean Paul Richter

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

-- John Harrigan

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

-- Louise Hay

This is the miracle that happens every time to those

who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

True love isn't so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially--even, or perhaps especially,

when you don't feel like it.

-- William R. Mattox, Jr.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually

do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

-- Mortimer Adler

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

-- Albert Ellis

The porcupine, whom one

must handle gloved, may

be respected, but is never

loved.

-- Arthur Guiterman

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.

-- Stephen Leacock

Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.

-- Moritz J. Saphir

I have said nothing because there is

nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as

you deserve it.

-- Kyle Schmidt

Love is like PI - natural, irrational, and very important.

-- Lisa Hoffman

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

-- J. Escriva

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit

it; whenever you're right, shut up.

-- Ogden Nash

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing

what you have written.

-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.

-- Justine Milton

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It

elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

-- Barbara Howar

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you

said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

-- Helen Rowland

When it’s cold & dark at night, and we’re alone together, I long to take you in my arms,

and cuddle you forever.

-- Purple Ronnie

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

-- Henry Louis Mencken

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

-- Mazie Hammond

You know you've found love when you look in their eyes and find yourself.

-- Monique Patton

Love... What is love? Love is to love someone for who they are, who they

were, and who they will be.

-- Chris Moore

Each morning as I awaken, you are the reason I smile, you are the reason I love.

-- Jerry Burton

When you realize you want to

spend the rest of your life with

somebody, you want the rest of your life to start

as soon as possible.

-- When Harry Met Sally, Movie

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

-- Robert G. Ingersoll

Think lovingly, speak lovingly,

act lovingly, and every need shall

be supplied.

-- James Allen

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

-- William Hazlitt

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

-- Stacie Cunningham

That is the best - to laugh with

someone because you think the

same things are funny.

-- Gloria Vanderbilt

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

-- George Jean Nathan

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

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

I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity

without it.

-- City of Angels

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

-- Unknown

The secret of love is seeking variety in your life

together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.

-- Unknown

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and

loving things.

-- Unknown

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, its what you are expected to

give — which is everything.

-- Unknown

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky

would be in the palm of my hand.

-- Unknown

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

your heart.

-- Unknown

You don’t marry someone you can live with - you marry the person whom you cannot live without.

-- Unknown

It's so funny how we set qualifications for the right person to love, while at the back of our minds we know that the person we truly love will always be an exception.

-- Unknown

You will know when you really love someone when you want him to be

happy even if his or her happiness means you are not a part of it.

-- Unknown

Every step I took since the moment I could

walk was a step towards finding you.

-- Unknown

Love? It's kind of complicated, but I'll tell you this... the second you're willing to make yourself miserable to make someone else happy, that's

love right there.

-- Unknown

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.

-- Unknown

The rule of unconditional love; it is in the giving that you make the other person realize.

-- Unknown

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

There would come a time when we have to stop loving someone not

because that person started hating us but because we found out that

they'd be happier if we let them go.

-- Unknown

The spaces between our fingers were created so that another person's

fingers could fill them in.

-- Unknown

It doesn't take a reason to love someone, but it does to like someone. You don't love someone because you want to; you love someone because

you are destined too. It's because you fall in Love with them, that you then try to find a reason, but you always

come up with the answer, No reason!

-- Unknown

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart ... pursue those.

-- Unknown

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred plus one day, so I never leave you alone.

-- Unknown

I love you more today than I did yesterday, but not as much as I will

tomorrow.

-- Unknown

Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.

-- Unknown

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