'Tis better to have love and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
O tell her, life is brief but love is long.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all
-- Anne Sophie Swetchine
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
The loving are the daring.
-- Bayard Taylor
It takes a second to notice some one,
An hour to like some one,
A day to fall in love with some one,
And a life time to forget them.
-- Brittney Shea
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
Love is eternal, so let us give it some time...
-- Chris Schwartz
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
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
-- Don Sibet
.. I love you -- I am at rest with you -- I have come home.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers
Love is not just caring deeply, it's, above all, understanding.
-- Francoise Sagan
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth - with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
-- Frank Tebbetts
I want you for always-- days, years, eternities.
-- Franz Schubert
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
-- George Sand
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
-- George Sands
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
-- Germaine De Stael
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-- Henry David Thoreau
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Friends...they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Come, let us make love deathless.
-- Herbert Trench
Love is friendship set on fire.
-- Jeremy Taylor
What we love to do we find time to do.
-- John L. Spalding
Being unique makes us all beautiful.
-- Kerry Jennifer Utley
True beauty cannot be seen with the eyes only the heart
-- Kerry Jennifer Utley
We are most alive when we're in love.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao-Tzu
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
-- Lao-Tzu
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
-- Leo Tolstoy
To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.
-- Mark Twain
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
-- Mark Twain
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-- Mark Twain
Love is the only rational act.
-- Morrie Schwarz
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
-- Morrie Schwarz
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
-- Mother Theresa
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Theresa
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
-- Mother Theresa
Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife
or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
-- Mother Theresa
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
-- Nicholas Sparks
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
-- Paul Sweeney
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich
Love is...the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
All love is sweet, given or returned.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 Byssthe Shelley
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
-- Percy Byssthe Shelley
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
-- Peter Ustinov
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 day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
-- Publilius Syrus
Love is the great Amulet that makes this world a garden.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
-- Simone Signoret
To every lovely lady bright,
I wish a gallant faithful knight;
To every faithful lover, too,
I wish a trusting lady true.
-- Sir Walter Scott
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
-- Sir Walter Scott
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
-- Sophocles
Any time that is spent on love is not wasted.
-- Tarquato Tasso
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
-- The Shulamite
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others' love to us.
-- Thomas Trahern
What is life without the radiance of love.
-- Von Schiller
It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
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