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The Top 501 Inspiring Love and Relationship Quotes
by David Riklan
Published by
Self Improvement Online, Inc.
http://www.SelfGrowth.com
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Introduction
Words can inspire and produce hope, fear, laughter, and sometimes tears.
We can become obsessed with finding that quote, that one proverb of
inspiration that will stick with us for the rest of our lives. I am no different.
For years, through my business of bringing Self Improvement wisdom to our
readers, I have searched myself, for words that are meaningful, inspiring,
and I have come across hundreds. Our main website,
http://www.SelfGrowth.com contains hundreds of resources on Inspiration
and Motivation.
I shared these quotes in a book I wrote a couple of years ago called, The
Top 501 Inspirational Quotes of All Time. I scoured many websites, and
consulted my friends, my family and our readers for these pearls of wisdom.
Now I want to do that again, except this time, I bring to you, The Top 501
Inspiring Love and Relationship Quotes.
Why change my focus? Arent there enough inspirational and love quotes
out on the web? All you have to do is type love and quotes into any search
engine and thousands of websites will surface. It can be overwhelming, to be
bombarded by hundreds of quotes. Then you ask yourself, where do I start?
I can tell you where I began. I started with a simple survey, sent out to the
over 120,000 subscribers of our Loving Today Newsletter. I asked them
simply, What is your favorite love quote? The response was astounding.
Emails began to pour in at an exuberant pace, filled with quotes from
movies, books, poetry, etc.
What was to be the next step though? This would be to prioritize them.
This was going to be a challenge. How does one do this? After some
consideration, I thought I should use the internet; the resource that my
business was based on. It also allowed me to start this project. I had gone
there to ask people for their opinions and now I would go back to help me
organize the quotes.
No matter what religion, race, or creed we are, what is the one thing that
unites us all? As clichd as this may sound, it is love. Whether love of our
families, friends, or neighbors, we love. We dedicate a whole holiday to this
emotion. We each love something.
For years I have loved quotes, in particular love quotes. I would memorize
them and repeat them to myself over and over again. Just like many other
people I found them to be a great source of inspiration.
Thinking back, I have always used quotes. They are a form of language and
expression that has been around for thousands of years, from Confucius
insightful proverbs to the witty repartee of modern day movies and
television. They can apply to almost every situation and help us to maintain
connectivity with each other.
While these are all great reasons, the most important is that I have always
felt quotes allow us to express what we are feeling. Because of that, I feel
inspired to share what I consider one of the most, if not the most, important
emotion we can have, love. I am lucky to have family and friends who I
love, and to them I dedicate this book.
So I ask you, if you want read this book, use it for your own purposes, but
keep in mind that you dont have to be a poet to enjoy them. You are just
like everyone else; you are a person who is searching for that driving force,
our reason for being, to love.
I ask you to keep this in mind, One word frees us of all the weight and pain
of life: that word is love. Sophocles.
Enjoy your journey through the top 501 Love and Relationship Quotes.
3) I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you
tread on my dreams. - William Butler Yeats
10) To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be
the world. - Unknown
11) What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
15) There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - George
Sands
16) Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not
arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or
resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears
all things, believes all things, hopes all things - Paul (A.D. First Century) 1
Corinthians 13:4-7
17) When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will
know peace. - Jimi Hendrix
18) The course of true love never did run smooth. - Shakespeare
19) Love means never having to say you're sorry. - Erich Segal
20) It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye. - Antione de Saint-Exupery
21) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
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22) If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa
24) Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone
deeply gives you courage - Lao-Tzu
27) The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them
knowing you can't have them. - Unknown
29) To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David
Viscott
30) Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says:
'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm
31) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - Gilbert K.
Chesterton
33) We can do no great things. Only small things with great love. -
Mother Teresa
34) Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. -
Alfred Lord Tennyson
39) Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. - Robert Browning
41) 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
42) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown
43) To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three
parts dead - Bertrand Russell
44) When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. -
Elizabeth Bowen
49) For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not
my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland
50) Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride
worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones
52) Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. - Leo Buscaglia
54) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -
Albert Einstein
55) .....if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am
nothing. - (from the Bible) 1Cor.13:2
56) Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and
preserves. Its eternal goal is life. - Smiley Blanton
57) What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. - Pearl
Bailey
60) People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime -
Unknown
61) Take away love and our earth is a tomb. - Robert Browning
62) Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear -
Unknown
63) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. - Rose
Franken
65) Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life;
love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens
life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. - Harry
Emerson Fosdick
68) Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the
middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give
hope a chance to float up. And it will. - Hope Floats
69) I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am
with you. - Elizabeth Browning
70) I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her
mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. - From the Movie,
City of Angels
71) Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects
you from age. - Jeanne Moreau
72) We loved with a love that was more than love. - Edgar Allan Poe
73) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Agnes
Repplier
74) Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better
than wine. - Song of Soloman
75) A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words
become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
78) Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who
receive it - Dr. Karl Menninger
80) You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an
imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen
83) Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is
not love which alters when it alteration finds ... - William Shakespeare
84) If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were
always yours. And if they don't, they never were. - Unknown
86) 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
87) Nothing is worth more than this day. - Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe
88) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real
with the ideal never goes unpunished. - Goethe
89) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love
harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. - Martin Luther King,
Jr.
90) Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles
Caleb Colton
92) Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a
fairy tale. - Gieselle C. Viera
93) Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know
we cannot live within. - James Baldwin
99) 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. - From
the Movie, When Harry Met Sally
101) I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had
smallpox. - Woody Allen
102) 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
104) Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. - H. Jackson
Brown, Jr.
109) Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit. - Khalil
Gibran
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110) Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. -
John Keats
112) Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of
separation. - Kahlil Gibran
115) 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
116) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one
agrees on just what it is. - Diane Ackerman
117) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind
blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. - Fran?ois de La
Rouchefoucauld
118) Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters. - William Curry
119) The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love
their mother. - Theodore M. Hesburgh
120) Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm
yours forever. - Anonymous
122) It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. - William Carlos Williams
123) Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the
rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. - Unknown
127) Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. -
Japanese Proverb
128) 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
129) Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give
love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let
no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living
expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. - Mother Theresa
131) Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with
someone you love, aren't you already there? - Richard Bach
134) 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
135) Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Kahlil
Gibran
136) Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them
humanity cannot survive. - - Dalai Lama
137) Did my heart love'til now? Foreswear its sight--for I never saw true
beauty 'til this night. - William Shakespeare
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138) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -
Gilbert K. Chesterton
139) I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them
together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new.
What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best
than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived - Margaret Mitchell
140) To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best
in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
141) Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable. - From
the Movie, The Wizard of Oz
142) 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
143) Life is the first gift, love is the second. - Marge Piercy
144) Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together
in the same direction. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
145) 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
146) To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. -
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
147) And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds
you worthy, directs your course. - Kahlil Gibran
148) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -
Lynda Barry
149) Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh
152) Love is more than a feeling; it's a state of mind. - Lisa Grude
153) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no
hurt, but only more love. - Mother Theresa
156) We love because it's the only true adventure. - Nikki Giovanni
160) Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread,
remade all the time, made new. - Ursula K. Le Guin
162) Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could
be; It was a fantasy a dream come true; It was the day I met you! - Mandy
Forkner
163) To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. -
William M. Thackeray
164) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life
where love is not. - Robert G. Ingersoll
165) Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not
the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. - Bette Davis
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166) The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in
his heart. - Benjamin Franklin
167) Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. -
Denis Diderot
169) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our
lives. - Louise Hay
170) There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for
bread. - Mother Theresa
171) I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life. - Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
172) Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent
a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton
Chekhov
173) In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two
minus one equals nothing. - Mignon McLaughlin
174) Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more
it is willing to see less. - Will Moss
176) To be able to say how much love, is love but little. - Petrarch
177) Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to
true happiness. - Bertrand Russell
178) Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the
recognition. - Alexander Smith
180) 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
181) To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct
for it. - Samuel Butler
182) True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be
hidden where it truly does. - Anonymous
185) Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for
hands that are not there. - Otomo No Yakamochi
187) 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 Buck
192) In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you
want the other person. - Margaret Anderson
194) Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each
other's eyes for an instant? - Henry David Thoreau
195) Love reminds you that nothing else matters. - Amy Bushell
198) 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
199) We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the
perfect love. - Tom Robbins
203) I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. - Henry Ward
Beecher
204) It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart
still does. - Mallory Jones
207) For love is heaven, and heaven is love. - Sir Walter Scott
210) The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world
is a woman's heart. - Josiah G. Holland
213) It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It
is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. - Mother
Teresa
214) Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. - Virgil
216) The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. - Dr. Albert Ellis
217) It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. -
Samuel Butler
218) There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or
simulate it where it does not. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
219) One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is
Love. - Sophocles
220) I love you - those three words have my life in them. - Alexandrea to
Nicholas III
221) Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little
love. - Erich Fromm
223) The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo
224) Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time. - From the Movie,
Casablanca
225) Each day I love you more, Today more than yesterday and less than
tomorrow. - Rosemonde G?rard
227) Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver
Wendell Holmes
229) Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human
existence. - Erich Fromm
230) Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and
purify the heart. - Washington Irving
231) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn
down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford
232) You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me
nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for revceiving; it's
my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return ~ - Alanis Morrissette
233) Love is a game that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor
234) All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built
upon the sand. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
239) Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible. -
Mother Teresa
240) There is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is
not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. - Helen Hayes
242) I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with
all my heart. - Alice Walker
243) One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where
you are when you don't come home at night. - Margaret Mead
245) The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, Not
knowing how blind that was. Lovers dont finally meet somewhere,
Theyre in each other all along. - Rumi
246) Where there is great love, there are always wishes. - Willa Cather
247) 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
248) It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that
no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the
same way after us. - Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe
250) Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever. - Unknown
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251) Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart. -
Charles Dickens
252) True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. - Antoine De
Saint-Exupery
253) 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
254) Came but for friendship, and took away love. - Thomas Moore
255) We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time - Jermaine
Stewart
256) We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't
just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by
itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and
nurture it. - John Lennon
257) You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her
eyes everywhere in the world. - David Levesque
259) 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
261) From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to
heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other,
the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from
that united being. - Ba'al Shem Tov
265) A simple I love you means more than money.... - Frank Sinatra
266) This is the true measure 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
ever love in the same way after us. - Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe
267) Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those
you love - Makaino Kouji
268) 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
269) When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. - Mark
Twain
271) Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your
good health has vanished. - Og Mandino
272) Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. -
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D.
273) Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet
each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke
274) Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end. - Anonymous
275) There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few
hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright
gait; but if he does not learn it, he must perish. - Alfred Adler
281) Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to
me. - Sarah Bernhardt
283) The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others
how much they love them while they're still alive. - Orlando Battista
284) Love is the flower you've got to let grow. - John Lennon
285) Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. - Thornton
Wilder
286) 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, Ph.D.
287) We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by
embracing each other. - Luciano De Crescenzo
288) It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the
affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. - Christian Nestell Bovee
289) Follow love and it will flee; Flee love and it will follow thee. - T.
Howell
290) 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
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the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of
concern for all beings. - Buddha
291) What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they
are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent
unspeakable memories. - George Eliot
292) To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
294) Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always
loved, now love the more. - Thomas Parnell
295) Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a
golden haze. - Elinor Glyn
297) Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. - Aristotle
298) 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
300) All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly
in love all the time. - Julie Andrews
302) Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is
irresistible. - W. Stanley Mooneyham
304) Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned... - William Butler
Yeats
305) For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures;
and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. - Francis Bacon
306) 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
307) O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O my
Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune. - Robert Burns
309) Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the
view is beautiful. - Daniel Monroe Tuttle
310) 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
311) There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. - Jean
Anouilh
312) The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. -
Somerset Maugham
314) It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. -
Muriel Spark
315) This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, un-
hoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious
316) O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first
consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings. - Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
318) What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. - Henry
Ward Beecher
321) Just because somebody doesnt love you the way you want, doesnt
mean they dont love you with all they have. - Unknown
322) It is love alone that gives worth to all things. - Santa Teresa de Jesus
323) Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be
understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood
only by someone who lives in it. - Robert C. Solomon
324) You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in
the idea of you, my whole life long. - Maya Angelou
327) Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. -
Theodor Reik
328) Love is a thing, well, its 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
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329) The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless,
unremembered acts, Of kindness and of love. - William Wadsworth
331) 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
332) The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless,
unremembered acts, of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth
333) Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality ... the supreme
activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward
someone else. - Jose Ortega y Gasset
334) The only true gift is a portion of yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
335) What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of
others. - Robin St. John
336) That love is all there is is all we know of love. - Emily Dickinson
337) Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little
absence is an age. - John Dryden
338) You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you
have them. - From the Movie, When Harry Met Sally
339) Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full
acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. - Karen Casey
340) My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, and ending at never.
- Anonymous
341) Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree - The
holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms But which will bloom most
constantly? - Emily Bronte
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342) Love is not love until love's vulnerable. - Theodore Roethke
343) Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Sandy
Wilson
344) True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending. - K.
Knight
345) A heart can be broken; but it keeps beating just the same. - From the
Movie, Fried Green Tomatoes
346) The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which
sadness and impossibility may become the rule. - Anita Brookner
350) Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months,
which are the rags of time. - John Donne
351) If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only.
Do not say, I love her for her smile...her look...her way Of speaking
gently...for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes,
brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day - For these things in
themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee - and love so
wrought, May be unwrought so. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
352) Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the
child that lost a dog yesterday. - Thornton Wilder
353) The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides
and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that
355) When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and
one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- Oscar Wilde
356) Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one
archenemy -- and that is life. - Jean Anouilh
357) Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end
of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage
and then turn down their flames. - Thomas Moore
358) Love the giver more than the gift. - Brigham Young
359) Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. - P.A.C. de
Beaumarchais
360) Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. - T.S.
Eliot
361) Familiar acts are beautiful through love. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
363) 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
364) Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens
and the wise it blinds. - John Dryden
365) The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature
slowly. - Peter De Vries
367) Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very
exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never
meet. - Andy Warhol
368) Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. - Anatole
France
369) 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
370) The more I love myself (unconditionally) the better I am able to love
you - Ken Robbins, Esalen Institute
371) She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance
as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning. - Jane
Austen
372) Love is the river of life in the world. - Henry Ward Beecher
373) Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way. - MBE
375) I love you -- I am at rest with you -- I have come home. - Dorothy L.
Sayers
376) 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
381) Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with
science and end with a settlement. - Oscar Wilde
382) Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot. - Rusty Silvey
383) Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that
revolve around love. - Marc Chagall
384) A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of
peace. - Levi ben Gershon
385) On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life
never faileth so long as there is love. - Henry Drummond
386) There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved; it
is God's finger on man's shoulder. - Charles Morgan
387) All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has
heart. - Carlos Castaneda
388) The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your
bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you
will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments
you will experience together. - Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D.
389) I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go
through time with. - Jim Croce
393) Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile,
and a grateful heart. - Zig Ziglar
394) Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so
beautiful. - Stacie Cunningham
396) Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth. - Ben Oliver
397) A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the
whole world thou canst find That heart I'll give to thee. - Robert Herrick
398) Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time,
removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. - Ikhide Oshoma
399) I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the
winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright. - Percy Bysshe
Shelley
400) What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give,
will be lost for all eternity. - Leo Buscaglia
401) Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include
the other, each is enriched by the other. - Felix Adler
402) You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss. -
Daniel Heinsius
404) Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will
find that you are left holding only yourself. - Leo Buscaglia
407) Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well
bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. - Henri
Frederic Amiel
408) Romance, like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are
not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time,
but it is poetry in the memory. - George William Curtis
409) Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear a face to hide
another? - Frances Marion
411) It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. - John
Bulwer
412) We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future
together. - Brian Andres
413) The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all
things the wrong way. - Plato
414) If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained
by replying: Because it was he; because it was me. - Montaigne
415) What comes from the heart, touches the heart. - Don Sibet
416) My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away - Kim Wilde
417) Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be ; For the gentle
wind does move Silently, invisibly. - William Blake
419) 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
421) Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather
than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most
powerful of all anti-political human forces. - Hannah Arendy
422) Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life.
Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. - Anita Brookner
423) Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton
love corrupts and debases it. - Francis Bacon
424) The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your
whole heart. - Anne Dillard
425) He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is
nothing at all to weep about. - Oscar Wilde
427) Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you
unless you love them. - Pat Carroll
428) Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation
for my imagination to go wild. - Anonymous
430) The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. -
Maureen Duffy
432) One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing. -
Edwin Arnold
434) Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken
out. - Nick Richardson
435) The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having
someone worth waiting for. - Jessica Brumley
439) In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other
really likes. - Elizabeth Ashley
440) Love as much as you can from wherever you are. - Golas
442) If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my
garden forever. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
443) 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. - Steve Winwood
445) Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold.
Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never
winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still. - Leo Buscaglia
446) For one person to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all
our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but
preparation. ? - J. Krishnamurti
447) 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
448) Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it
stays. Clutch is, and it darts away. - Dorothy Parker
449) It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were
on good terms one would not part. - Marcel Proust
450) I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are
going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I
pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your
satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward
toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
- Carl Sandburg
451) If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being. - Anzia
Yezierska
453) Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do. - David
Wilkerson
454) No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it
where it is lacking. - Francois La Rochefoucauld
456) Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
457) Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its
rainbow. - J.M. Barrie
458) Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no
desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be
with each other, even when you have no desire to do it. - Judith Viorst
460) Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same. - Emily
Bronte
462) Love is the great Amulet that makes this world a garden. - Robert
Louis Stevenson
464) Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I
never will. - William S. Burroughs
465) True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
- Leanna L. Bartram
466) Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only
promise. - Leo Buscaglia
467) When you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want
the rest of your life to start as soon as possible - Harry from When Harry
Met Sally
469) We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions
are less uncontrolled. - Du Coeur
470) Without love our life is a ...ship without a rudder...like a body without
a soul. - Sholem Aleichem
471) Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that
door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is
sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another. - Collin McCarty
472) We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have
done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. -
Samuel Butler
474) There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one
another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The
avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to
contaminate the rest of our lives. - Cyril Connolly
476) The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and
apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
479) Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and
certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to
yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its
content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and
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sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or
its identities. - J. Krishnamurti
480) Love is when reality is better than your dreams. - Becky Graham
481) There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee. -
William Wordsworth
482) Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. - Bertrand Russell
483) Come back to me in dreams; that I may give pulse for pulse, breath
for breath: Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago. -
Christina Rossetti
485) Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right. -
Unknown
486) That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous
tranquility. - Rumi
487) Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless. - Elizabeth Von
Arnim
488) One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone. - C.
T. Davis
489) It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be. - Anatole
France
490) Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic
potent over sun and star, Is Love. - William Wordsworth
491) Love is...the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the
senses, but of our whole nature - Percy Bysshe Shelley
492) I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself. -
From the Movie, Original Sin
494) Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but
if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
495) From now on you will never be alone; even when we are separated,
and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you. - Ladislaus
Boros
497) The heart does not respond to principles and programs; it seeks not
efficiency, but passion. - Eldredge, John/Curtis, Brent
498) Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for
others and especially for yourself. - Morrie Schwarz
499) We are all born for love...it is the principle existence and it's only end.
- Benjamin Disraeli
500) If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man - Aretha
Franklin
501) The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand. - Blaise
Pascal