Love Phrases

Beautiful love phrases to inspire you romantically ... You can use these short love phrases in love letters, love cards,
loving romantic messages etc.

Aching desire, adorable beauty, affectionate embrace, affectionate smile, amorous desire, angelic softness, angelic
face, angelic smile, awed devotion, aromatic fragrance

Bashful smile, beautiful features (eyes, hair, hands, feet, legs etc), beautiful moves, beguiling voice, beguiling looks,
blissful adoration, blissful whispers of love, boundless admiration, boundless love

Captivating charms, caressing smile, celestial joy, charming grace, charming radiance, cherished love, chivalrous
spirit, compassionate love, compelling force of love, crushing sorrow, crystalline eyes

Dancing sunshine, dashing gallantry, dazzling beauty, delicious kiss, delightful touch, delirious ecstacies, desirable
demeanor, deviously subtle, devoted love, dramatic liveliness

Earthly splendor, ecstatic happiness, effervescent style, effusive charm, embittered gaze, emotional warmth,
enchanting grace, enduring love, engaging smile, engulfing love, enriching experience, enthralling charm, enveloping
presence, exhilarating bliss, exquisite grace

Faultless skin, fine taste, flashing wit, flowing grace, fragile form, freshening breeze of love

Gleeful spirit, gorgeous splendor, graceful demeanor, gushing enthusiasm

Haunting despair, heavenly ecstacies, honest admiration, honeyed eloquence, hot frenzy, hypnotic fascination

Impatient craving, impending fate, impetuous zeal, inflamed passion, involuntary yearnings

Magnetic fascination, majestic form, matchless charm

Panting eagerness, penetrating warmth, persuasive eloquence, pleasurable excitement, propelling impulse

Radiant happiness, radiating love, resilient spirit

Saintly serenity, shining virtues, silent agony, soaring bliss, stormy passion, sublime anticipation, surpassing
loveliness

Thrilling eloquence, tingling expectation, tormenting thought, tranquil grandeur, treasured virtues, trembling anxiety

Unabated pleasure, uncontrollable delight, undeniable charm, unique personality, unrelenting spirit, unrequited love,
unsatisfied yearning, unselfish fidelity

Yearning tenderness, youthful glow

* A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
~ Ingrid Bergman ~
* There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~ Thoreau ~

* I have nothing more to give you than my heart.

~ Spanish saying ~

* When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.
~ Dr Seuss ~

* The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller ~

Love Quotes
Beautiful love quotes which convey the bliss of love in an eloquent manner ...

* Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.
~ Songs of Solomon 8 : 7 ~

* In Love we discover the good qualities of our loved one which are hidden from other people.
~ Gerald Brenan ~

* When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ Elizabeth Bowen ~

* The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return.
~ Natalie Cole ~
("Unforgettable with Love")

* We are most alive when we are in love.

~ John Updike ~

* You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.
~ Ludwig Boerne ~

* What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

* Soul meets soul on lover's lips.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelly ~

* I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
~ Mae West ~

* Let your Love be like the misty rain, coming softly, but flooding the river.
~ Madagascan Proverb ~
 * I love you - those three words have my life in them.
~ Alexandrea to Nicholas III ~

* I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder'd at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr'd for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.
~ John Keats ~

* I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me ... I would die.
~ Shirley Bassey ~

* In real Love you want the other person�s good. In romantic Love you want the other person.
~ Margaret Anderson ~

* I would fly you to the moon and back if you'll be . . . if you'll be my baby.
~ Savage Garden ~

Love Quotes
* The most precious possession that ever comes
To a man in this world
Is a woman's heart.
~ Josiah G. Holland ~

* And think not you can

Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.
~ Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

* Other men said they have seen angels,

But I have seen thee
And thou art enough.
~ G. Moore ~

* You need somebody to Love you while you are looking for someone to love.
~ Shelagh Delaney ~

* Oh, what use is Love if you have no one to Love?

~ Immanuel of Rome ~
 * He who Love touches not walks in darkness.
~ Plato ~

* A heart that loves is always young.

~ Greek Proverb ~

* To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain ~

* True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
~ Thomas Merton ~

* Love doesn't sit there like a stone.

It has to be made like bread;
Remade all the time...Made new.
~ Le Guin ~

* Hearts are not to be had as a gift Hearts are to be earned...

~ William Butler Yeats ~

* True love doesn't have a happy ending: True love doesn't have an ending.
~ Anonymous ~

* Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
~ Moulin Rouge ~

* You don't love a woman because she's beautiful,

She is beautiful because you love her.
~ Anonymous ~

* Love is not a matter of counting the years...

But making the years count.
~ Michelle St. Amand ~

Love Quotes
* Love is not blind.
It sees more, not less.
But because it sees more,
It is willing to see less.
~ Rabbi Julius Gordon ~

* In Love, one and one are one.

~ Jean-Paul Satre ~
 * How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I Love thee to the depth
And breadth and height
My soul can reach.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

* You will never know true happiness

until you have truly loved,
and you will never understand
what pain really is until you have lost it.
~ Anonymous ~

* To live is like to love -

all reason is against it,
and all healthy instinct for it.
~ Samuel Butler ~

* My heart was singing like a bird�

The birthday of my life is come,
My love is come to me.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~

* Love is that condition in which-

The happiness of another person
Is essential to your own.
~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

* In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
~ John Lennon ~

* I only wish to be the fountain of love

From which you drink,
Every drop promising eternal passion.
~ Unknown Author ~

* We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.
~ William Sloan Coffin ~

* If I know what love is, It is because of you.

~ Herman Hesse ~

* When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
~ Unknown Author ~
 * Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

* What is love? �
It is the morning and the evening star.
~ Sinclair Lewis ~

* Love is what happens to a man and woman who do not know each other.
~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

* I have learned not to worry about love;

But to honor its coming with all my heart.
~ Alice Walker ~

* Love either finds equality or makes it.

~ John Dryden ~

* Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
~ Anonymous ~

* Love understands love; it needs no talk.

~ Frances Ridley Havergal ~

* One word frees us

Of all the weight and pain in life,
That word is Love.
~ Socrates ~

* Love conquers all.

~ Virgil ~

* Did my heart love till now?

Forswear it sight,
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
~ William Shakespeare ~

* Love isn�t love until you give it away.

~ Unknown Author ~

* Love is the white light of emotion.

~ Diane Ackerman ~

* So dear I love him that with him,

All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life.
~ William Shakespeare ~
 * Romantic love is sexually passionate love.
Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.
~ Peter R. Breggin ~

* When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
~ Unknown Author ~

* 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 becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.
~ Bruce Lee ~

* Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
~ Unknown ~

* Love is a great beautifier.

~ Amelia Barr ~

* Any great Love involves sacrifice. You feel that as a father, as a husband.
You give up all your freedom.
But the love is so much greater than freedom.
~ Nicholas Cage ~

* A simple I love you means more than money.

~ Frank Sinatra ~

* Love includes fellowship in suffering, in joy, and in effort.

~ Albert Schweitzer ~

* True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist,

Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
~ Anonymous ~

* Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

* There is no remedy for love but to love more.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

* 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 ~

* You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
~ Amy Carmichael ~

* Life without love is like a tree.

Without blossom and fruit.
~ Khalil Gibran ~

* Love means not ever having to say you are sorry.

~ Erich Segal ~

* We must love one another or die.

~ W.H Auden ~

* Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

* I love thee, I love but thee

With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.
~ Willam Shakespeare ~

* Love is perfect in proportion to its freedom.

~ Thomas Merton ~

* Love is like war. Easy to begin but hard to end.

~ Anonymous ~

* All that we deeply love becomes a part of us.

~ Helen Keller ~

* Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
~ William S. Burroughs ~

* The greatest thing you�ll ever learn. Is just to love and be loved in return.
~ Eden Ahbez ~

* The greatest weakness of most humans

Is their hesitancy to tell others,
How much they love them
While they're alive.
~ O.A. Battista ~

* The best feelings are those that

Have no words to describe them....
~ Michelle Hammersley ~
 * Love is a burning desire,
That makes your heart light on fire,
Love is being with you,
Someone saying I love you too,
Love is your tender kiss,
Something you don't want to miss,
Love is you and me,
And that is all I see.
~ Anonymous ~

* There is no magician like love.

~ Marguerite Blessington ~

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

* I have loved to the point of madness;

That which is called madness,
That which to me,
Is the only sensible way to love.
~ F. Sagan ~

* Exclusive Love is a contradiction in itself.

~ Erich Fromm ~

* You love simply because you cannot help it.

~ Kim Anderson ~

* The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

~ Hubert Humprey ~

* I Love, and the world is mine.

~ Florence Earle Coates ~

* To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

~ Karen Sunde ~

* 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 ~

* There are no guarantees.

From the viewpoint of fear,
None are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love,
 None are necessary.
~ Anonymous ~

* The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

* Paradise is always where love dwells.

~ Jean Paul F. Richter ~

* The art of love-giving and taking become one.

~ Herman Hesse ~

* Your voice makes me tremble inside

And your smile is an invitation
For my imagination to go wild.
~ Anonymous ~

* True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself.

It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations:
it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
~ Honore de Balzac ~

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

* Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend to heaven.
~ Bernard Russell ~

* The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
~ Maulana Jalalu'ddin Rumi ~

* The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.
~ Francis W. Bourdillon ~

* To love a person is to learn the song

That is in their heart,
And to sing it to them
When they have forgotten.
~ Anonymous ~
 * Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

* When Love is suppressed, hate takes it place.

~ Havelock Ellis ~

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

~ William Shakespeare ~

* Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

~ Thomas Fuller ~

* We are what we Love.

~ Dean William Ralph Inge ~

* Love is a wonderful thing.

You never have to take it away
From one person to give it to another.
There's always more than enough to go around.
~ Pamela de Roy ~

* We are all born for love...

it is the principle existence and it's only end.
~ Disraeli ~

* The essence of love is kindness.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

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

~ Ralph Connor ~

* 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 ~

* Where Love reigns, there no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount... Love is lacking.
~ Carl G. Jung ~

* Love is like a rumor,

Everyone talks about it,
But no one truly knows.
~ Anonymous ~

* 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 ~

* Love is like swallowing hot chocolate

Before it has cooled off.
It takes you by surprise at first,
But keeps you warm for a long time.
~ Anonymous ~

* When the power of Love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
~ Unknown Author ~

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

* My love for you is a journey;

Starting at forever,
And ending at never.
~ Anonymous ~

* My love, you know you are my best friend.

You know that I'd do anything for you A
nd my love, let nothing come between us.
My love for you is strong and true.
~ Sarah McLachlan ~

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

* Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost,

Sometimes unrecognized, but in the end,
Always found with no regrets, forever valued
And kept treasured.
~ Unknown ~

* Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment

Between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.
~ Nathaniel Branden ~

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

~ George Sand ~

* Love doesn't make the world go round,

Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Elizabeth Browning ~
 * Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu ~

* Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are part of life�s heritage.
~ Maria Montessori ~

* Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.

For love is the beauty of the soul.
~ St. Augustine ~

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

* Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which love is opposite.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

* A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships,

All the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.
~ Joseph Addison ~

* Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

* Love does not die easily.

It is a living thing.
It thrives in the face
Of all life's hazards,
Save one--neglect.
~ James Bryden ~

* If I have freedom in my love,

And in my soul am free,
Angels along that soar above enjoy such liberty.
~ Richard Lovelace ~

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

~ Unknown ~

* Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

~ Bertrand Russell ~

* 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 ~

* Love is the final end of world�s history. The amen of the universe.
~ Novalis ~

* All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
 * Love is the law of our being.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi ~

* People who serve you without love get even behind your back.
~ Walt Whitman ~

* Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

~ Samuel Lover ~

* Love, and do what you will.

~ St. Augustine ~

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

~ Josh Billings ~

* Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight of recognition.
~ Alexander Smith ~

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

* To love is to take delight in happiness of another,

Or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.
~ Gottfried Leibniz ~

* 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.
~ Author Unknown ~

* Love puts the fun in together,

The sad in apart,
The hope in tomorrow,
The joy in the heart.
~ Anonymous ~

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

Cute Love Quotes

Cute love quotes are fun love quotes with a cute twist ...

* Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice but falling in love with you I had no control over.
~ Anonymous ~

* Some of the greater things in life are unseen thats why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream ...
~ Anonymous ~

* When I saw you I was afraid to meet you. When I met you I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you I was afraid
to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you.
~ Anonymous ~

* Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best
friend".
~ St. Augustine ~

* The best thing about me is you.

~ Shannon Crown ~

* Love is a state in which you see things most decidedly as the are not.
~ Anonymous ~

* If rain drops were kisses, I could send you showers. If hugs were seas, I'd send you oceans. If love was a person,
I'd send you me!
~ Angelina Joy ~

* I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
~ Roy Croft ~

* If I had to choose between loving you, and breathing, I would use my last breath to say I LOVE YOU.
~ Anonymous ~

* And 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.
~ Colin Raye ~

* Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

~ John Lennon ~

* Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
~ Mother Teresa ~

* I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.
~ Calvin Klein ~
 * The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
~ Honore De Balzac ~

* Love is friendship set on fire.

~ Jeremy Taylor ~

* There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld ~

* A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

~ Latin proverb ~

* Love me when I least deserve it, because that�s when I really need it.
~ Swedish proverb ~

* Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

* My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, Don't worry
about finding the right woman - concentrate on becoming the right man.
~ Anonymous ~

"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

"Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing: Come back to me and forgive everything." - Moulin Rouge (The Movie)

"I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart." - Alice Walker (1944~) American
Author, Critic

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) English
Actor, Author, Director

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation - We don't love to be loved; we love to
love." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some
madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
German Philosopher, Poet

"But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning."
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) English Officer, Navigator, Colonizer, Historian, Poet, Courtier

"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." -
Madame De Stael (1766-1817) French-Swiss Novelist

"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to
love." - Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) French Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter
"To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens]
American Author, Humorist

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator,
Writer

"I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old." - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-
430AD) Numidian-born Philosopher, Theologian

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." - Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Clergyman, Author

"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 Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) English Novelist, Critic, Dramatist

"Love conquers all things; let us surrender to Love." - Virgil (70-19BC) [Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil] Roman Epic
Poet

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan
Crawford (1908-1977) American Actor

"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every
opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive,
and to serve." - Joan Borysenko (American Clinical Psychologist, Author)

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." - Bible, 1 John 4:18

"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing 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 (1852-1933) Irish Writer

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and
something to hope for." - Thomas Edward Bodett (1955~) American Author, TV Host, Radio Commentator

"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time." - Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) English Poet

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." - Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
American Writer

"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." - Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) American Actor, Singer

"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist

"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself
electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." - George Jean Nathan
(1882-1958) American Editor, Critic

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire." - Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) Swedish Naturalist, Mathematician,
Scientist, Theologian
"It is not night when I do see your face." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"The first duty of love - is to listen." - Paul Johannes Tillich (1886-1965) American Theologian, Philosopher

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems
like a minute. THAT'S relativity." - Albert Einstein

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope."
- Maya Angelou (1928~) American Actor, Author

"Nothing in this world is single, all things by laws divine in one spirit mix and mingle; why not I with thine?" - Percy
Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet

"For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul." - Judy Garland
(1922-1969) American Actor, Singer

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life." - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [Count
Lev Tolstoi] Russian Novelist, Moral Philosopher, Mystic

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born American
Physicist

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." - Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher

"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always." - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian Epic Poet, Philosopher

"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable." - Victor Hugo
(1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist

"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all
the sweets of life. [The Spectator Magazine]" - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman

"Love is a haunting melody That I have never mastered And I fear I never will." - William Seward Burroughs (1914-
1997) American Writer

"Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the
mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author,
Educator

"So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life. [Romeo & Juliet]" - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"Life without love is like a tree Without blossom and fruit." - Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese-born American
Mystic Poet, Painter

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

"A simple I love you means more than money." - Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) American Singer, Actor

Let the world stop turning, Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's 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 (1945~) American Singer. Entertainer, Actor

"Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw]
American Humorist

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite."
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American
Poet, Wit, Essayist, Scholar

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet, Essayist

"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 Antoninus (121-180AD) Roman Emperor, Philosopher

"This story is about truth, beauty, freedom; but above all things, this story is about love." - Moulin Rouge (The Movie)

"Love: A temporary insanity, curable by marriage. [The Devil's Dictionary]" - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American
Author, Editor, Journalist

"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." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American Editor, Author, Critic,
Humorist

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go
home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and
may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen." - Samuel Adams (1722-1803) American Revolutionary,
Statesman

"LOVE: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] American
Author, Humorist

"Faults are thick where love is thin." - English Proverb

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) American Novelist,
Playwright, Anthropologist

"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." - Stephen Edwin King (1947~)
American Writer

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentinean Author

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (1940~) American
Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

"Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?" - Cinderella (The Fairytale)

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883) English Poet
Laureate

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." - Annie (The Movie)
"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you
have." - Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish Journalist, Writer, Dramatist

"When love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. [Love's Labor's Lost]" - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"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 (1852-1933) American Clergyman, Writer

"Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely." -
Hawkeye, MASH (Television Show)

"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 (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it." - Josh Billings (1818-
1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist

"The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love." - Victor
Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
Czechoslovakian-born German Lyric Poet

"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 (1879-1955) German-born American Physicist

"I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them." - Mae West (1893-1980)
American Actor, Writer

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself." -
Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return. [Unforgettable]" - Nat King Cole (1919-1965)
American Singer, Pianist

"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah Gilbert Holland
(1819-1881) American Author

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What (women) like is to be a man's last romance." - Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist

"If music be the food of love; play on." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is
invisible to the eye." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone
suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain
vulnerable." - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman

"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." - Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) French Novelist, Essayist,
Poet, Playwright

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire (1694-1778) [Francois-Marie
Arouet] French Philosopher, Historian, Writer

"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too." - William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic,
Painter

"He who love touches walks not in darkness." - Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher

"You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long." - Elizabeth
Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet

"For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." - Rosemonde Gerard

"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." - Anais Nin (1914-1977) French-born American Novelist,
Dancer

"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying." - Aeschylus (525-
456BC) Greek Dramatist, Tragic Poet

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
English Novelist, Playwright

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

"Love is the only gold." - Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883) English Poet Laureate

"Love comfortheth like sunshine after rain." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"You say that love is nonsense - I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an
ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or
rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." - Henry Brooks
Adams (1838-1918) American Historian

"Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the
man I marry." - Anouk Aimee (1932~) French Actor

"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress."
- William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and
proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Czechoslovakian-born
German Lyric Poet

"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is." - Diane Ackerman
(1948~) American Poet, Writer, Social Worker
"Soul meets soul on lover's lips." - Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822) English Romantic Poet

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
American Writer, Poet, Journalist

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." - Sophocles (495-406BC) Greek Dramatist

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand (1804-1876) [Madame Dudevant] French
Novelist

"Hearts are not to be had as a gift - hearts are to be earned." - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish Poet, Revivalist
of Irish Literature

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian-born
Roman Catholic Missionary

"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 (1564-1616) English Poet,
Playwright, Actor

"The life and love we create is the life and love we live." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist,
Author, Educator

"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce
love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love." - Erich Fromm
(1900-1980) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao-Tzu
(604-531BC) Chinese Philosopher, Co-founder of Taoism

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. [Romeo and Juliet]" - William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still
alive." - Orlando A. Battista (1917~) Canadian-American Chemist, Author

"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I
could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you." - John Keats (1795-
1821) English Poet

"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 Green Hubbard (1856-1915) American Writer, Printer, Businessman

"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 becomes as coals, deep- burning and
unquenchable." - Bruce Lee (1940-1973) Chinese-American Actor, Director, Martial Artist

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

"Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own. [Stranger in a Strange
Land]" - Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American Science Fiction Writer

"Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness
and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the
moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union." - Rollo May (1909-1994) American Psychotherapist

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and
enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration." - D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English Author

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when
the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey (1954~) American TV Personality, Actor

"There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." - Bible, I Corinthians 13:13

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of
loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist

"To live without loving is to not really live." - Moliere (1622-1673) [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] French Dramatist, Actor

"Love is the flower - you've got to let grow." - John Lennon (1940-1980) English Singer, Song Writer, Musician

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens (1812-
1870) English Novelist

"A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it - A song's not a song 'til you sing it - Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay - Love
isn't love 'til you give it away!" - Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960) American Song Writer

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." - Michael Leunig (1945~) Cartoonist

"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever." - Sir
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Bengali Poet, Novelist, Composer

"In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." - Maya Angelou
(1928~) American Actor, Author

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love." - Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) American Actor, Singer

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Mauriac
(1885-1970) French Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Playwright

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the
flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the
tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist,
Author, Educator

"The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom." - Anais Nin (1914-
1977) French-born American Novelist, Dancer

"The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed." - Suzanne
Necker

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." -
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

"Love is a great beautifier." - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Novelist, Children's Writer

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry
Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue
to love a changed person." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have
made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." - Elizabeth
Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet

"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 (1910-1997)
Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

"Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted
time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine." - Stephen Laurence 'Steve' Winwood (1948~) British Musician,
Singer

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return. [Moulin Rouge]" - Eden Ahbez (1909-1995)
American Songwriter

"What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but
act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to
insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's
we who make it complicated." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English
Statesman, Author, Prime Minister (1868, 1874-80)

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." - Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American Politician

"I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me - I would die." - Dame Shirley Bassey (1937~)
Welsh Singer

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-
1861) English Poet

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears." - Woodrow Wyatt (1918~) English Journalist

"Even though there may be times It seems I'm far away Never wonder where I am 'Cause I am always by your side.
[The Power of Love]" - Celine Dion (1968~) Canadian Quebecois Singer

"Paradise is always where love dwells." - Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German Novelist, Writer, Aesthetician

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman (1915-
1982) Swedish Actor

"The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The
mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done." - Francis
William Bourdillon (1852-1921) English Poet

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return." - Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) English
Children's Author

"The course of true love never did run smooth." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally
meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." - Jalal-Uddin Rumi (1207-1273) Turkish Sufi Mystic Poet

"She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in
her aspect and her eyes." - Lord Byron (1788-1824) [George Gordon] English Poet

"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. [Born For Love]" - Leo F. Buscaglia
(1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator

"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 (1813-1887) American Preacher, Orator, Writer

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another
heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration." - Pearl
S. Buck (1892-1973) American Novelist

"The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-
1965) English Novelist, Playwright

"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah Gilbert Holland
(1819-1881) American Author

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What (women) like is to be a man's last romance." - Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist

"If music be the food of love; play on." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is
invisible to the eye." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone
suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain
vulnerable." - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman

"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." - Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) French Novelist, Essayist,
Poet, Playwright

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire (1694-1778) [Francois-Marie
Arouet] French Philosopher, Historian, Writer

"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too." - William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic,
Painter

"He who love touches walks not in darkness." - Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher

"You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long." - Elizabeth
Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet

"For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." - Rosemonde Gerard

"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." - Anais Nin (1914-1977) French-born American Novelist,
Dancer

"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying." - Aeschylus (525-
456BC) Greek Dramatist, Tragic Poet
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
English Novelist, Playwright

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

"Love is the only gold." - Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883) English Poet Laureate

"Love comfortheth like sunshine after rain." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor

"You say that love is nonsense - I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an
ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or
rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." - Henry Brooks
Adams (1838-1918) American Historian

"Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the
man I marry." - Anouk Aimee (1932~) French Actor

"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress."
- William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and
proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Czechoslovakian-born
German Lyric Poet

"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is." - Diane Ackerman
(1948~) American Poet, Writer, Social Worker

"Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!" - Moulin Rouge (The Movie)

"Love asks me no questions, And gives me endless support." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet,
Playwright, Actor

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same
direction." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer

"You can give without loving, But you cannot love without giving." - Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) Irish Missionary

"Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a
high regard for the value of each other's person." - Nathaniel Branden (American Psychologist)

"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 (1799-1850) French Novelist

"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. [Life and love]" - Samuel Butler (1835-
1902) English Novelist, Satirist, Scholar

"We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) English Novelist, Philosopher

"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." - Khalil Gibran
(1883-1931) Lebanese-born American Mystic Poet, Painter

"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out." - Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) Irish Novelist

First Love

I ne'er was struck before that hour

With love so sudden and so sweet.
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete.

My face turned pale, a deadly pale.

My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked what could I ail
My life and all seemed turned to clay.

And then my blood rushed to my face

And took my eyesight quite away.
The trees and bushes round the place
Seemed midnight at noonday.

I could not see a single thing,

Words from my eyes did start.
They spoke as chords do from the string,
And blood burnt round my heart.

Are flowers the winter's choice

Is love's bed always snow
She seemed to hear my silent voice
Not love appeals to know.

I never saw so sweet a face

As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling place
And can return no more.