� we waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect

love. -tom robbins

� tomorrow is saint valentine�s day,

all in the morning betime,
and i a maid at your window,
to be your valentine. -*william shakespeare

� the supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or
more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. -victor hugo

� love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the
recognition. -alexander smith

� in the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one
equals nothing. -mignon mclaughlin

� each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
-aphra behn

� in real love you want the other person's good. in romantic love you want the
other person. -margaret anderson

� i have found the paradox that if i love until it hurts, then there is no hurt,
but only more love. -mother teresa

� 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

� 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

� i have no regrets. i will never regret loving someone because the feeling of
love for five minutes is greater than an eternity of hurt. -kurt langner

� 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

� 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

� sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or

opposing passion. each strives to be the other, and both together make up one
whole. -samuel taylor coleridge

� some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: i humbly
pray to heaven above that i love the man i marry. -rose stokes

� being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives
you courage. -lao tzu

� you will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have
truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
-henry drummond
� love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the
habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. -john ciardi

� sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in
common with and still be fascinated by their presence. -david byrne

� love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. its
eternal goal is life. -smiley blanton

� a dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. -james h.
boren

� love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have

sex. -dan greenburg

� love is being stupid together. -paul valery

� love one another and you will be happy. it's as simple and as difficult as that.
-michael leunig

� love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

-w. somerset maugham

� i recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. that must be why my
wife treats me like toxic waste. -david bissonette

� kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see
anything wrong with each other. -rene yasenek

� a kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become
superfluous. -ingrid bergman

� the moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel
the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the
world is transformed. -jiddu krishnamurti

� love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. -ben hecht

� a hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. -bil keane

� looking back, i have this to regret, that too often when i loved, i did not say
so. -david grayson

� i don't wish to be everything to everyone, but i would like to be something to

someone. -javan

� love is not measured by how many times you touch each other but by how many
times you reach each other. -cathy morancy

� the one thing we can never get enough of is love. and the one thing we never
give enough is love. -henry miller

� 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

� love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all
memory of beginning, all fear of an end. -madame de stael

� if you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be
happy....even if its not with you. -lauren&l

� i have no regrets. i will never regret loving someone because the feeling of
love for five minutes is greater than an eternity of hurt. -kurt langner

� expect the people you love to be better. it helps them to become better. but
don't get upset when they fail. it helps them keep trying. -anonymous

� 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

� when you feel cold and warm at the same time, when you read over the same line
for the tenth time, when your heart and thoughts somehow appear to rhyme, and when
a simple name conquers your whole mind, then you are in deep trouble my friend...
you are in what they call, "love". -philippos aristotelous

� many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-stephen b. leacock

� you can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -henny youngman

� "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

� love is giving someone the ability to destroy you and trusting them not to.

� pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter
enters, the former makes its exit.-alexandre dumas

� 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

� men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that
lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses
itself in the sky. - v.f. calverton

� absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the
great. -roger de bussy-rabutin

� trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the
person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -dinah shore

� love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside
because you're close in heart. -kay knudsen

� love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are
expected to give -- which is everything.

� just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean
they don't love you with all they have.

� you don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you
love her.
� you come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect
person perfectly. -sam keen

� immature love says, 'i love you because i need you.' mature love says, 'i need
you because i love you.' -erich fromm

� if you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack.
if you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. -ann landers

� love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been
looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. -amy bloom

� the grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for. -allan k. chalmers