Alexandrea to Nicholas III
"I love you - those three words have my life in them."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American Author, Editor, Journalist
"Love: A temporary insanity, curable by marriage. [The Devil's Dictionary]"
Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) Irish Missionary
"You can give without loving, But you cannot love without giving."
Annie (The Movie)
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
Anouk Aimee (1932~) French Actor
"Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English Statesman, Author, Prime Minister (1868, 1874-80)
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
Bette Midler (1945~) American Singer. Entertainer, Actor
"Let the world stop turning, Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you."
Bible, I Corinthians 13:13
"There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love."
Bruce Lee (1940-1973) Chinese-American Actor, Director, Martial Artist
"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."
Celine Dion (1968~) Canadian Quebecois Singer
"Even though there may be times It seems I'm far away Never wonder where I am 'Cause I am always by your side. [The Power of Love]"
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
Cinderella (The Fairytale)
"Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?"
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English Author
"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."
Dame Shirley Bassey (1937~) Welsh Singer
"I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me - I would die."
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian Epic Poet, Philosopher
"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always."
Diane Ackerman (1948~) American Poet, Writer, Social Worker
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."
Dolly Parton
"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with a little rain!"
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (1940~) American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
Eden Ahbez (1909-1995) American Songwriter
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return. [Moulin Rouge]"
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) English Poet
"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) American Writer, Printer, Businessman
"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."
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) Irish Novelist
"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American Writer, Poet, Journalist
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) Swedish Naturalist, Mathematician, Scientist, Theologian
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."
English Proverb
"Faults are thick where love is thin."
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher
"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921) English Poet
"The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done."
George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) American Editor, Critic
"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 Moore (1852-1933) Irish Writer
"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing 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 Sand (1804-1876) [Madame Dudevant] French Novelist
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
Greek Proverb
"A heart that loves is always young."
Hawkeye, MASH (Television Show)
"Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely."
Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American Historian
"You say that love is nonsense - I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength."
"You say that love is nonsense - I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength."
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
"To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess."
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) American Clergyman, Writer
"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 Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Preacher, Orator, Writer
"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) French Novelist
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American Politician
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) Swedish Actor
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) English Novelist, Philosopher
"We can only learn to love by loving."
Jalal-Uddin Rumi (1207-1273) Turkish Sufi Mystic Poet
"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German Novelist, Writer, Aesthetician
"Paradise is always where love dwells."
Joan Borysenko (American Clinical Psychologist, Author)
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."
Joan Crawford (1908-1977) American Actor
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
“If I love you, what does that matter to you!”
John Keats (1795-1821) English Poet
"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 Lennon (1940-1980) English Singer, Song Writer, Musician
"Love is the flower - you've got to let grow."
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentinean Author
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman
"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life. [The Spectator Magazine]"
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist
"Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope."
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) American Author
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart."
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart."
Judy Garland (1922-1969) American Actor, Singer
"For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul."
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese-born American Mystic Poet, Painter
"Life without love is like a tree Without blossom and fruit."
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
Lao-Tzu (604-531BC) Chinese Philosopher, Co-founder of Taoism
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [Count Lev Tolstoi] Russian Novelist, Moral Philosopher, Mystic
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883) English Poet Laureate
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Lord Byron (1788-1824) [George Gordon] English Poet
"She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes."
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Novelist, Children's Writer
"Love is a great beautifier."
Mae West (1893-1980) American Actor, Writer
"I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180AD) Roman Emperor, Philosopher
"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."
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) English Children's Author
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return."
Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] American Author, Humorist
"To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
"LOVE: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired."
Maya Angelou (1928~) American Actor, Author
"In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine."
Michael Leunig (1945~) Cartoonist
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
Moliere (1622-1673) [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] French Dramatist, Actor
"To live without loving is to not really live."
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
"Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other--it doesn't matter who it is-- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other."
"We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love."
Moulin Rouge (The Movie)
"This story is about truth, beauty, freedom; but above all things, this story is about love."
"Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!"
"Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing: Come back to me and forgive everything."
Nat King Cole (1919-1965) American Singer, Pianist
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return. [Unforgettable]"
Nathaniel Branden (American Psychologist)
"Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American Poet, Wit, Essayist, Scholar
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Oprah Winfrey (1954~) American TV Personality, Actor
"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."
Orlando A. Battista (1917~) Canadian-American Chemist, Author
"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."
Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960) American Song Writer
"A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it - A song's not a song 'til you sing it - Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay - Love isn't love 'til you give it away!"
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What (women) like is to be a man's last romance."
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What (women) like is to be a man's last romance."
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor
"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."
Paul Johannes Tillich (1886-1965) American Theologian, Philosopher
"The first duty of love - is to listen."
Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) American Actor, Singer
"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Novelist
"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."
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet
"Nothing in this world is single, all things by laws divine in one spirit mix and mingle; why not I with thine?"
Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
"He who love touches walks not in darkness."
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Czechoslovakian-born German Lyric Poet
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
"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."
"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."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet, Essayist
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
"A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day".
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet
"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."
Rollo May (1909-1994) American Psychotherapist
"Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union."
Rosemonde Gerard
"For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."
"For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430AD) Numidian-born Philosopher, Theologian
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
Sam Keen
"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) American Revolutionary, Statesman
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen."
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Novelist, Satirist, Scholar
"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. [Life and love]"
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) English Novelist, Critic, Dramatist
"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 James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish Journalist, Writer, Dramatist
"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
Sophocles (495-406BC) Greek Dramatist
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."
Stephen Edwin King (1947~) American Writer
"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."
Stephen Laurence 'Steve' Winwood (1948~) British Musician, Singer
"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."
Suzanne Necker
"The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed."
Thomas Edward Bodett (1955~) American Author, TV Host, Radio Commentator
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Clergyman, Author
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."
"The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love."
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."
Virgil (70-19BC) [Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil] Roman Epic Poet
"Love conquers all things; let us surrender to Love."
Voltaire (1694-1778) [Francois-Marie Arouet] French Philosopher, Historian, Writer
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."
"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."
"The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."
William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter
"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too."
"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress."
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish Poet, Revivalist of Irish Literature
"Hearts are not to be had as a gift - hearts are to be earned."
William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) American Writer
"Love is a haunting melody That I have never mastered And I fear I never will."
Woodrow Wyatt (1918~) English Journalist
"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) American Writer
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) American Novelist, Playwright, Anthropologist
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
Alice Walker (1944~) American Author, Critic
"I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart."
Anais Nin (1914-1977) French-born American Novelist, Dancer
"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are."
Bible, 1 John 4:18
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear."
Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) French Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter
"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love."
Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) American Singer, Actor
"A simple I love you means more than money."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher, Poet
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist
"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
Kahil Gibran
"When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden."
Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation - We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
Lisa Hoffman
"The more you judge, the less you love. Anonymous Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important."
Madame De Stael (1766-1817) French-Swiss Novelist
"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."
Maya Angelou (1928~) American Actor, Author
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope."
Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822) English Romantic Poet
"Soul meets soul on lover's lips."
Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) English Actor, Author, Director
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American Science Fiction Writer
"Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own. [Stranger in a Strange Land]"
Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Bengali Poet, Novelist, Composer
"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever."
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) English Officer, Navigator, Colonizer, Historian, Poet, Courtier
"But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning."
William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter
"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress."
William Cowper.
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
Yahia Lababidi.
“If Love, as they say, is blind then, Lust must be deaf, dumb and blind.”
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"Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end, always found with no regrets, forever valued and kept treasured."
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