"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle
"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love."
Margaret Atwood
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
Saint Augustine
"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."
Pearl Bailey
"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 A. Baldwin
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
James A. Baldwin
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
Honore de Balzac
"When love is not madness, it is not love."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."
Natalie Clifford Barney
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman
"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law."
Boethius
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Emily Bronte
"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. "
Rupert Brooke
"The best proof of love is trust."
Joyce Brothers
"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning
"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."
Leo Buscaglia
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
Leo Buscaglia
"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
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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 M. Child
"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it."
Frank A. Clark
"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
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. "
Charles Caleb Colton
"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved."
William Congreve
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
Benjamin Disraeli
"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
"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."
Henry Drummond
"Love is love's reward."
John Dryden
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
Henry Van Dyke
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."!
Albert Einstein
"I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved."
George Eliot
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
Albert Ellis
"All mankind love a lover."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from."
Werner Erhard
"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
Nan Fairbrother
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. "
Zelda Fitzgerald
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
Erich Fromm
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Erich Fromm
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Robert Frost
"Love is a game that two can play and both win."
Eva Gabor
"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
"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
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
Kahlil Gibran
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
David Grayson
"There is only one terminal dignity - love."
Helen Hayes
"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat."
Ben Hecht
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
Victor Hugo
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. "
Javan
"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. "
Javan
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
John Keats
"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 flower you've got to let grow."
John Lennon
"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."
W. Somerset Maugham
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."
H. L. Mencken
"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
H. L. Mencken
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
A. A. Milne
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
Michel de Montaigne
"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
George Edward Moore
"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy."
George Jean Nathan
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
Anais Nin
"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
Ovid
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. "
Plato
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
Edgar Allan Poe
"How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it."
Barbara Pym
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
Tom Robbins
( How can we create our perfect love?)
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
J. D. Salinger
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
William Shakespeare
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
William Shakespeare
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
George Bernard Shaw
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
Henri B. Stendhal
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. "
Mother Teresa
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
Mother Teresa
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tzu
"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."
Miguel de Unamuno
"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."
Miguel de Unamuno
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
Peter Ustinov
"Love conquers all."
Virgil
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."
Voltaire
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
Oscar Wilde
"Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man."
Tammy Wynette
"I need you like a heart needs a beat."
Timbaland
Aristotle
"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love."
Margaret Atwood
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
Saint Augustine
"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."
Pearl Bailey
"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 A. Baldwin
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
James A. Baldwin
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
Honore de Balzac
"When love is not madness, it is not love."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?"
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."
Natalie Clifford Barney
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman
"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law."
Boethius
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Emily Bronte
"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. "
Rupert Brooke
"The best proof of love is trust."
Joyce Brothers
"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning
"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."
Leo Buscaglia
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
Leo Buscaglia
"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
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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 M. Child
"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it."
Frank A. Clark
"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
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. "
Charles Caleb Colton
"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved."
William Congreve
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
Benjamin Disraeli
"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
"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."
Henry Drummond
"Love is love's reward."
John Dryden
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
Henry Van Dyke
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."!
Albert Einstein
"I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved."
George Eliot
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
Albert Ellis
"All mankind love a lover."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from."
Werner Erhard
"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
Nan Fairbrother
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. "
Zelda Fitzgerald
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
Erich Fromm
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Erich Fromm
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Robert Frost
"Love is a game that two can play and both win."
Eva Gabor
"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
"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
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
Kahlil Gibran
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
David Grayson
"There is only one terminal dignity - love."
Helen Hayes
"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat."
Ben Hecht
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
Victor Hugo
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. "
Javan
"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. "
Javan
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
John Keats
"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 flower you've got to let grow."
John Lennon
"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."
W. Somerset Maugham
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."
H. L. Mencken
"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
H. L. Mencken
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
A. A. Milne
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
Michel de Montaigne
"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
George Edward Moore
"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy."
George Jean Nathan
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
Anais Nin
"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
Ovid
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. "
Plato
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
Edgar Allan Poe
"How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it."
Barbara Pym
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
Tom Robbins
( How can we create our perfect love?)
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
J. D. Salinger
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
William Shakespeare
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
William Shakespeare
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
George Bernard Shaw
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
Henri B. Stendhal
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. "
Mother Teresa
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
Mother Teresa
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tzu
"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."
Miguel de Unamuno
"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."
Miguel de Unamuno
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
Peter Ustinov
"Love conquers all."
Virgil
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."
Voltaire
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
Oscar Wilde
"Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man."
Tammy Wynette
"I need you like a heart needs a beat."
Timbaland
