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***** "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." -David Viscott ***** "Love is not finding someone to go to bed with, but finding someone you want to wake up next to in the morning. Love is not finding the perfect person, but finding the imperfect person perfect." -??? ***** "You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -??? ***** "I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." -Roy Croft ***** "If I could be anything in the world, I would want to be a tear so I could be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips." -??? ***** "Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." -??? ***** "Love is a feeling you feel when you feel you are about to feel a feeling you never felt before." -??? ***** "To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world." -??? ***** "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, yet enkindles the great." -??? ***** "To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another." -Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz ***** "The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart." -??? ***** "Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away." -??? ***** "Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one." -Japanese Proverb ***** "Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, But somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart." -Kay Knudsen ***** "The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done." -F. W. Bourdillon ***** "Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." -Kahlil Gibran Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left. I lived a few weeks while you loved me." -Humphrey Bogart to Gloria Grahame, In a Lonely Place ***** "One person caring about another represents life's greatest value." -Jim Rohn ***** "Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists." -Anita Brookner ***** "If the purpose of life is to fall in love with someone, then loving you is the purpose of my life." -??? ***** "Love is just friendship set to music." -E. Joseph Crossman ***** "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin ***** "The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life." -Lydia Maria Child ***** "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." -Lao-Tzu ***** "Marriage is not a ritual or an end. it is a long, intricate, intimate dance together, and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner." -Amy Bloom ***** "Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." -Miguel de Unamuno ***** "The course of true love never did run smooth." -William Shakespeare ***** "Love and a cough cannot be hid." -George Herbert ***** "A lover without indescretion is no lover at all." -Thomas Hardy ***** "I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in Whining poetry." -John Donne ***** "To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another." -Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz ***** "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." -John Donne Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving." -??? ***** "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." -Voltaire ***** "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." -Jorge Luis Borges ***** "If you judge someone, you have no time to love them." -Mother Teresa ***** "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." -The Bible ***** "Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret." -Aphra Behn ***** "There is no sincerer love than the love of food." -George Bernard Shaw ***** "Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause." -Benedict Spinoza ***** "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." -Rita Rudner ***** "Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times." -Rita Rudner ***** "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known." -Walt Disney ***** "Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice." -Nora Roberts ***** "Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them." -Ogden Nash ***** "If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?" -??? ***** "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." -??? ***** "The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable." -John Cheever Click Here to Visit our Sponsor ***** "Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other." -Euripides ***** "The only reward for love is the experience of loving." -John LeCarre ***** "The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists." -Charles Dickens ***** "Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead." -Conrad Aiken ***** "To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." -Anna Louise Strong ***** "Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." -Dinah Shore ***** "The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep." -Alan Patrick Herbert ***** "The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident." -Sir Hugh Walpoe ***** "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 ***** "Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." -Antoine de SaintExupery ***** "Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same." -??? ***** "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." -William Hazlitt 60 |