Love

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.
--Margaret Kennedy

Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.
--Kimberly Kirberg

To love at all is to be vulnerable.
--C.S. Lewis

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love ... the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
--Erica Jong

Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.
--Tom Wilson

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
--Henry David Thoreau

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can 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

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
--Goncourt

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
--Bertrand Russell

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus (1913-1960) 

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
--Katherine Hepburn 

Love is being stupid together.
--Paul Valery

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
--Franklin P. Jones

Life is to be fortified by many friendships - to love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
--Sydney Smith

Love enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of you partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care.
--Carl S. Avery

Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
--David Wilkerson

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
--John Powell

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously
--Helen Gurley Brown

Lovers, like bees, lead a honey-sweet life.
--Graffiti on a wall of Pompeii

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open
--Sir Rabindranath Tagore Thakur (1861-1941)

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
--Carl Jung

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
--Sigmund Freud

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
--Robert Frost

For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.
--David Myers

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
--St. Augustine

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
--Francois Mocuriac

Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.
--Victor M. Garcia Jr.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
--David Grayson

And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.
--Kahlil Gibran The Prophet (1923)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
--Gordon William Allport

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as a act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception
--Harold Loukes

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations
--Kahlil Gib 

Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole
--Tea Rose

The most difficult thing that you can do is to watch the person you love love someone else.
--Unknown

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
--John Donne

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.
--Brian Tracy

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
--Leo Buscaglia

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
--Elbert Hubbard

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
--Kahlil Gibran

Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.
--Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich's ABC, 1962

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