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.
-- William Shakespeare
Love is not love that
alters when it alteration finds.
-- William Shakespeare
If thou remember not
the slightest folly into which loves hast made thee run, thou hast not
loved.
-- William Shakespeare
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
If music be the food of love, play on.
-- William Shakespeare
“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.”
-- William Shakespeare
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support...
-- William Shakespeare
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.
-- William Shakespeare
The courses of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare
So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, lives no life.
-- William Shakespeare
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eyes I eyed, such
seems your beauty still.
-- William Shakespeare
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.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
True love begins when nothing is
looked for in return.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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.
-- Benjamin Franklin
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of
everybody.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
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
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.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the
ideal never goes unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The sound of a kiss is not as loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
-- Christopher Marlowe
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a
thousand stars.
-- Christopher Marlowe
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.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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