delving into the female psyche with Esquire’s Guide to Things a Man Should Know About Women.

The gift list of flowers, chocolate and diamonds runs through a man’s memory like a ceremonial chant when holidays roll around, but do you know where to deliver the roses to? Or if she’ll actually like a sentimental gift that isn’t made out of gold? Find these answers and more by delving into the female psyche with Esquire’s Guide to Things a Man Should Know About Women.

happy together =)

10 Things Happy Couples Do:

By Mark Goulston, M.D.

Happy couples know that the real relationship begins when the honeymoon is over. They know that unless you maintain the garden of love, its beauty will wither and die. In a recent column, you discovered the 10 relationship mistakes to avoid. Now discover the 10 things that happy couples do:

1. Go to bed at the same time.
Remember the beginning of your relationship, when you couldn’t wait to go to bed with each other?
Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times.
They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps.

2. Cultivate common interests.
After the passion settles down, it’s common to realize that you have few interests in common. But don’t minimize the importance of activities you can do together that you both enjoy. If common interests are not present, happy couples develop them. At the same time, be sure to cultivate interests of your own; this will make you more interesting to your mate and prevent you from appearing too dependent.

3. Walk hand in hand or side by side.
Rather than one partner lagging or dragging behind the other, happy couples walk comfortably hand in hand or side by side. They know it’s more important to be with their partner than to see the sights along the way.

4. Make trust and forgiveness your default mode.
If and when they have a disagreement or argument, and if they can’t resolve it, happy couples default to trusting and forgiving rather than distrusting and begrudging.

5. Focus more on what your partner does right than what he or she does wrong.
If you look for things your partner does wrong, you can always find something. If you look for what he or she does right, you can always find something, too. It all depends on what you want to look for. Happy couples accentuate the positive.

6. Hug each other as soon as you see each other after work.
Our skin has a memory of “good touch” (loved), “bad touch” (abused) and “no touch” (neglected). Couples who say hello with a hug keep their skin bathed in the “good touch,” which can inoculate your spirit against anonymity in the world.

7. Say “I love you” and “Have a good day” every morning.
This is a great way to buy some patience and tolerance as each partner sets out each day to battle traffic jams, long lines and other annoyances.

8. Say “Good night” every night, regardless of how you feel.
This tells your partner that, regardless of how upset you are with him or her, you still want to be in the relationship. It says that what you and your partner have is bigger than any single upsetting incident.

9. Do a “weather” check during the day.
Call your partner at home or at work to see how his or her day is going. This is a great way to adjust expectations so that you’re more in sync when you connect after work. For instance, if your partner is having an awful day, it might be unreasonable to expect him or her to be enthusiastic about something good that happened to you.

10. Be proud to be seen with your partner.
Happy couples are pleased to be seen together and are often in some kind of affectionate contact — hand on hand or hand on shoulder or knee or back of neck. They are not showing off but rather just saying that they belong with each other.

Even if these actions don’t come naturally, happy couples stick with them until they do become a part of their relationship. They know that it takes
30 days for a change in behavior to become a habit, and a minimum of six months for a habit to become a way of life and love. Dr. Goulston is the co-founder of CouplesCompany.com and the author of The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship (Putnam, 2001).

Compatability Questionaire:

“Hugs” as a form of communication:

“…this very moment.”

One warm evening nine years ago…

After spending nearly every waking minute with Angel for eight straight days, I knew that I had to tell her just one thing.  So late at night, just before she fell asleep, I whispered it in her ear.  She smiled… the kind of smile that makes me smile back.  And she said, “When I’m seventy-five, and I think about my life and what it was like to be young, I hope that I can remember this very moment.”

A few seconds later she closed her eyes and fell asleep.  The room was peaceful… almost silent.  All I could hear was the soft purr of her breathing.  I stayed awake thinking about the time we’d spent together and all the choices in our lives that made this moment possible.  And at some point, I realized that it didn’t matter what we’d done or where we’d gone.  Nor did the future hold any significance.

All that mattered was the serenity of the moment.

Just being with her and breathing with her.

~4drc

“And I was safe… in your love…”

 

 

How sweet!

 Loves first kisses~

The lingering caresses of two hearts,
~unwilling to break the spell of ages.

You came to me.

Bourne on the breath of hope…
….And I was safe in your love.

As we part now…
you descend in to the underworld.

~A place where time obeys a different master…
and only the fleet of foot stay quick.

Unnatural fires burn a prickly light,
and the war drums pound~
As you, my Hero,

dodging devils and wraiths..
journey down in to the belly of the earth…

Deeper.. and deeper, past Siren song
Destiny draws you
To the place..
Where hissing steely serpents
Feast on the hopes of men…

The gleaming labyrinth beckons..
A palace of memories,
And jagged dreams…
..of what could have beens..
Glistening, with the salty fruit of pain
And regret..

I feel you..
In my blood..And in my bones
Your heart beats out the rhythm of my joy
An intricate and intoxicating dance..

 

 

 

I

 

know

 

you…

 

 

The end is near, my love… fear not..

For even in that darkest hour,
~At the end of the world
…when all is lost…?

 

 

…..

 
 

I am here. 

 

 
 

 

  

 

 

On “love” and “attatchement”:

The Experience of “Being In Love” Is Not The Same For Everyone

Not everyone experiences love in exactly the same manner.

Research has shown that love comes in several different forms or styles (see, Lee and Regan). For the most part, people experience love as a blend of two or three of the styles listed below. Essentially, people have different notions of what it means to “be in love.”

Styles of Love:

Eros – some people experience love with a lot of passion, intimacy and intensity. Love based on Eros has a strong sexual and emotional component. People who experience love this way want to be emotionally and physically close to their romantic partners and they tend to idealize love. Such love is marked by passion as well as compassion (kindness and consideration). Eros is best viewed as romantic, passionate love – the type of love that creates excitement at the beginning of a new relationship.

Ludus – some people experience love as a game to be played with other people’s emotions. The goal or desire is to gain control over a partner through manipulation. People who experience love as Ludus like to have multiple love interests where they are in complete control. Lying, cheating and deception are common for people who experience love as Ludus – it’s all part of the game. For people who experience love as Ludus, it is satisfying to outwit a partner and exploit his or her weak spots (see, husband plays with my heart, who is likely to cheat, lovefraud).

Storge – some people experience love as a gradual and slow process. When love is based on Storge, getting to know someone comes before having intense feelings for that person. Love based on Storge takes time, it requires genuine liking and understanding of a partner, and it develops slowly over time. Love based on Storge is often compared to the love that one has for a friend. In fact, people who experience love as Storge often fall in love with their friends.

Agape – some people experience love as caregiving. Love is the overwhelming desire to want to take care of a partner – a parental or nurturing type of love. Love based on Agape is attentive, caring, compassionate and kind – a more altruistic or selfless type of love.

Mania – some people experience love as being out of control. Love is an overwhelming experience; it turns one’s life upside down and it results in a complete loss of one’s identity. Love based on Mania is crazy, impulsive and needy. People who experience love as Mania fall in love quickly, but their love tends to consume them. Love experienced as Mania also tends to burnout before it gets the chance to mature. Such love is often marked by extreme delusions, feelings of being out of control, rash decisions, and vulnerability. People who experience love as Mania are easily taken advantage of by people who experience love as Ludus.

Pragma – some people take a practical approach to love. Love is not crazy, intense, or out of control. Love is based on common sense and reason. People who experience love as Pragma tend to pick a suitable mate the way most other people make serious life decisions: picking a partner is based on careful consideration and reason. Practical concerns underlie this type of love.

The love styles listed above have also been linked to one’s style of attachment (see, Levy and Davis).

• Eros and Agape are linked to Secure Attachment
• Mania is linked to Anxious Attachment
• Ludus is linked to Dismissing Attachment

Overall, when thinking about love and relationships, sometimes it helps to keep in mind that love does not always mean the same thing to everyone.

“love me a little while…”

“…she was the only light this empty room has ever had.”

En tus brazos ~

en tus brazos

“lies drip from stripper’s lips”

Death becomes her as Intuition reveals truth~

Focus now instead on:

 Integrity of Intention.

Congruency of Committment.

Sincerity of Transparency.

Honestly of authentic expression.

my “bretty” ;)

“Can’t We Talk?” (condensed from: You Just Don’t Understand)

A married couple was in a car when the wife turned to her husband and asked, “Would you like to stop for a coffee?”

“No, thanks,” he answered truthfully. So they didn’t stop.

The result? The wife, who had indeed wanted to stop, became annoyed because she felt her preference had not been considered. The husband, seeing his wife was angry, became frustrated. Why didn’t she just say what she wanted?

Unfortunately, he failed to see that his wife was asking the question not to get an instant decision, but to begin a negotiation. And the woman didn’t realize that when her husband said no, he was just expressing his preference, not making a ruling. When a man and woman interpret the same interchange in such conflicting ways, it’s no wonder they can find themselves leveling angry charges of selfishness and obstinacy at each other.

As a specialist in linguistics, I have studied how the conversational styles of men and women differ. We cannot lump all men or all women into fixed categories. But the seemingly senseless misunderstandings that haunt our relationships can in part be explained by the different conversational rules by which men and women play.

Whenever I write or speak about this subject, people tell me they are relieved to learn that what has caused them trouble – and what they had previously ascribed to personal failings – is, in fact, very common.

Learning about the different though equally valid conversational frequencies men and women are tuned to can help banish the blame and help us truly talk to one another. Here are some of the most common areas of conflict:

Status vs. Support.

Men grow up in a world in which a conversation is often a contest, either to achieve the upper hand or to prevent other people from pushing them around. For women, however, talking is often a way to exchange confirmation and support.

I saw this when my husband and I had jobs in different cities. People frequently made comments like, “That must be rough,” and “How do you stand it?” I accepted their sympathy and sometimes even reinforced it, saying, “The worst part is having to pack and unpack al the time.”

But my husband often reacted with irritation. Our situation had advantages, he would explain. As academics, we had four-day weekends together, as well as long vacations throughout the year and four months in the summer.

Everything he said was true, but I didn’t understand why he chose to say it. He told me that some of the comments implied: “Yours is not a real marriage. I am superior to you because my wife and I have avoided your misfortune.” Until then it had not occurred to me there might be an element of one- upmanship.

I now see that my husband was simply approaching the world as many men do: as a place where people try to achieve and maintain status. I, on the other hand, was approaching the world as many women do: as a network of connections seeking support and consensus.

Independence vs. Intimacy.

Since women often think in terms of closeness and support, they struggle to preserve intimacy. Men, concerned with status, tend to focus more on independence. These traits can lead women and men to starkly different views of the same situation.

When Josh’s old high-school friend called him at work to say he’d be in town, Josh invited him to stay for the weekend. That evening he told Linda they were having a house guest.

Linda was upset. How could Josh make these plans without discussing them with her beforehand? She would never do that to him. “Why don’t you tell your friend you have to check with your wife?” she asked.

Josh replied, “I can’t tell my friend, ‘I have to ask my wife for permission’!”

To Josh, checking with his wife would mean he was not free to act on his own. It would make him feel like a child or an underling. But Linda actually enjoys telling someone, “I have to check with Josh.” It makes her feel good to show that her life is intertwined with her husband’s.

Advice vs. Understanding.

Eve had a benign lump removed from her breast. When she confided to her husband, Mark, that she was distressed because the stitches changed the contour of her breast, he answered, “You can always have plastic surgery.”

This comment bothered her. “I’m sorry you don’t like the way it looks,” she protested. “But I’m not having any more surgery!”

Mark was hurt and puzzled. “I don’t care about a scar,” he replied. “It doesn’t bother me at all.”

“Then why are you telling me to have plastic surgery?” she asked.

“Because you were upset about the way it looks.”

Eve felt like a heel. Mark had been wonderfully supportive throughout her surgery. How could she snap at him now?

The problem stemmed from a difference in approach. To many men a complaint is a challenge to come up with a solution. Mark thought he was reassuring Eve by telling her there was something she could do about her scar. But often women are looking for emotional support, not solutions.

When my mother tells my father she doesn’t feel well, he invariably offers to take her to the doctor. Invariably, she is disappointed with his reaction. Like many men, he is focused on what he can do, whereas she wants sympathy.

Information vs. Feelings.

A cartoon shows a husband opening a newspaper and asking his wife, “Is there anything you’d like to say to me before I start reading the paper?” We know there isn’t – but that as soon as the man begins reading, his wife will think of something.

The cartoon is funny because people recognize their own experience in it. What’s not funny is that many women are hurt when men don’t talk to them at home, and many men are frustrated when they disappoint their partners without knowing why.

Rebecca, who is happily married, told me this is a source of dissatisfaction with her husband, Stuart. When she tells him what she is thinking, he listens silently. When she asks him what is on his mind, he says, “Nothing.”

All Rebecca’s life she has had practice in verbalizing her feelings with friends and relatives. But Stuart has had practice in keeping his innermost thoughts to himself. To him, like most men, talk is information. He doesn’t feel that talk is required at home.

Yet many such men hold center stage in a social setting, telling jokes and stories. They use conversation to claim attention and to entertain. Women can wind up hurt that their husbands tell relative strangers things they have not told them.

To avoid this kind of misunderstanding, both men and women can make adjustments. A woman may observe a man’s desire to read the paper without seeing it is a rejection. And a man can understand a woman’s desire to talk without feeling it is a manipulative intrusion.

Orders vs. Proposals.

Diana often begins statements with “Let’s.” She might say “Let’s park over there” or “Let’s clean up now, before lunch.”

This makes Nathan angry. He has deciphered Diana’s “Let’s” as a command. Like most men, he resists being told what to do. But to Diana, she is making suggestions, not demands. Like most women, she formulates her requests as proposals rather than orders. Her style of talking is a way of getting others to do what she wants – but by winning agreement first.

With certain men, like Nathan, this tactic backfires. If they perceive someone is trying to get them to do something indirectly, they feel manipulated and respond more resentfully than they would to a straightforward request.

Conflict vs. Compromise.

In trying to prevent fights, some women refuse to oppose the will of others openly. But sometimes it’s far more effective for a woman to assert herself, even at the risk of conflict.

Dora was frustrated by a series of used cars she drove. It was she who commuted to work, but her husband, Hank, who chose the cars. Hank always went for cars that were “interesting” but in continual need of repair.

After Dora was nearly killed when her brakes failed, they were in the market for yet another used car. Dora wanted to buy a late-model sedan from a friend. Hank fixed his sights on a 15-year-old sports car. She tried to persuade Hank that it made more sense to buy the boring but dependable car, but he would not be swayed.

Previously she would have acceded to his wishes. This time Dora bought the boring but dependable car and steeled herself for Hanks’ anger. To her amazement, he spoke not a word of remonstrance. When she later told him what she had expected, he scoffed at her fears and said she should have done what she wanted from the start if she felt that strongly about it.

As Dora discovered, a little conflict won’t kill you. At the same time, men who habitually oppose others can adjust their style to opt for less confrontation.

When we don’t see style differences for what they are, we sometimes draw unfair conclusions: “You’re illogical,” “You’re self- centered,” “You don’t care about me.” But once we grasp the two characteristic approaches, we stand a better chance of preventing disagreements from spiraling out of control.

Learning the other’s ways of talking is a leap across the communication gap between men and women, and a giant step towards genuine understanding.

“I’m not upset that you lied to me…”

“I’m not upset that you lied to me…

I’m upset that from now on?

I can’t believe you.”

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

unFAITHful

Story of my life
Searching for the right
But it keeps avoiding me
Sorrow in my soul
Cause it seems that wrong
Really loves my company

He’s more than a man
And this is more than love
The reason that the sky is blue
The clouds are rolling in
Because I’m gone again
And to him I just can’t be true

And I know that he knows I’m unfaithful
And it kills him inside
To know that I am happy with some other guy
I can see him dying

I don’t wanna do this anymore
I don’t wanna be the reason why
Everytime I walk out the door
I see him die a little more inside

Rihanna-Unfaithful

I don’t wanna hurt him anymore
I don’t wanna take away his life
I don’t wanna be…
A murderer

I feel it in the air
As I’m doing my hair
Preparing for another date
A kiss upon my cheek
As he reluctantly
Asks if I’m gonna be out late
I say I won’t be long
Just hanging with the girls
A lie I didn’t have to tell
Because we both know
Where I’m about to go
And we know it very well

Cause I know that he knows I’m unfaithful
And it kills him inside
To know that I am happy with some other guy
I can see him dying

I don’t wanna do this anymore
I don’t wanna be the reason why
Everytime I walk out the door
I see him die a little more inside
I don’t wanna hurt him anymore
I don’t wanna take away his life
I don’t wanna be…
A murderer

Our love, his trust
I might as well take a gun and put it to his head
Get it over with
I don’t wanna do this
Anymore
Uh
Anymore (anymore)

I don’t wanna do this anymore
I don’t wanna be the reason why
And everytime I walk out the door
I see him die a little more inside
And I don’t wanna hurt him anymore
I don’t wanna take away his life
I don’t wanna be…
A murderer.

“passionate love of another kind…”

“Give her wings when she wants to fly ~”

To really love a woman
To understand her – you gotta know her deep inside
Hear every thought – see every dream
N’ give her wings – when she wants to fly
Then when you find yourself lyin’ helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman

When you love a woman you tell her that she’s really wanted
When you love a woman you tell her that she’s the one
she needs somebody to tell her
that it’s gonna last forever

So tell me have you ever really
- really really ever loved a woman?

To really love a woman
Let her hold you -
til ya know how she needs to be touched

You’ve gotta breathe her – really taste her
Til you can feel her in your blood

And…. when you can see your unborn children in her eyes
You know you really love a woman

When you love a woman
you tell her that she’s really wanted

When you love a woman you tell her that she’s the one
she needs somebody to tell her
that you’ll always be together

So tell me have you ever really -
really really ever loved a woman?

You got to give her some faith – hold her tight
A little tenderness – gotta treat her right
She will be there for you, takin’ good care of you
Ya really gotta love your woman…

Then when you find yourself lyin’ helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman
When you love a woman you tell her
that she’s really wanted
When you love a woman you tell her that she’s the one
she needs somebody to tell her
that it’s gonna last forever

So tell me have you ever really
- really really ever loved a woman?

Just tell me have you ever really,
really, really, ever loved a woman? You got to tell me
Just tell me have you ever really,
really, really, ever loved a woman?

“And, when you find yourself lying naked and helpless in her arms ….? “

“love lies bleeding in my hand again …”

daughtry discovered:

desire ~

Desire Quotes

The Beginning matters not, all that is known is how
I delight in her every motion. My heart dissolves
each moment she is near. Empty is left when she departs,
I wonder when will she succumb to the smoldering
desire just below. Oh were she to convey the yearn for
my touch, I may find the fortitude to trudge forward, but
if she were to decide to indulge in me, I would be furiously
resolved to commandeer all that is within my grasp, to relish
every inch of she, and halt only when she can no longer receive.
If I could submerge in her my desire, she would have that which
has eluded for a lifetime….A calmness of ambition, and the
eternal warmth of Immaculate Fulfillment….Philip Larson.

The desire accomplished is
sweet to the soul….Proverbs 13:19.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires,
since nature hath set none….Christian Nevell Bovee.

Desire, like the atom, is explosive
with creative force….Paul Vernon Buser.

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire
with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it
is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing,
craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which
is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming
desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the
shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of
the famished man for bread and meat….Robert Collier.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into
reality; our desires being often but precursors of the
things which we are capable of performing….Samuel Smiles.

The consuming desire of most human beings is
deliberately to plant their whole life in the
hands of some other person. I would describe
this method of searching for happiness as immature.
Development of character consists solely in
moving toward self-sufficiency….Quentin Crisp.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms
a nucleus with power to attract to itself
everything needed for its fulfillment….Robert Collier.

There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t. If you’re qualified,
all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change.
Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can’t blame
other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When
we do the impossible we realize we are special people….Jan Ashford.

Our thoughts create our reality–not instantly, necessarily,
as in “Poof! There it is” — but eventually. Where we put our
focus — our inner and outer vision — is the direction we tend
to go. That’s our desire, our intention….Peter McWilliams.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power
– a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves
up and start in again after a disappointment….Marsha Sinetar.

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my
face; to greet the day with reverence for the
opportunities it contains; to approach my work with
a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing
of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am
working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips
and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous
through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness
that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done
– this is how I desire to waste wisely my days….Thomas Dekker.

The first principle of success is desire –
knowing what you want. Desire is the
planting of your seed….Robert Collier.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To
melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody
to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and
give thanks for another day of loving….Kahlil Gibran.

kiss me ~

Kissing Quotes

The decision to kiss for the first time
is the most crucial in any love story.
It changes the relationship of two people
much more strongly than even the final surrender;
because this kiss already has within it
that surrender….

Emil Ludwig.

The sunlight claps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?….Percy Bysshe Shelley.

When I tried to draw near,
you dissolved into air
before my lips could touch you….George Sand.

We turned on one another deep,
drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss
that reduced my bones to rubber
and my brain to gruel….Peter De Vries.

A kiss is something you cannot
give without taking and cannot
take without giving….Unknown.

A kiss can be a comma,
a question mark
or an exclamation point.
That’s the basic spelling
that every woman ought to know….Mistinguette.

…then I did the simplest thing in the world.
I leaned down…and kissed him.
And the world cracked open….Agnes De Mille.

You may conquer with the sword,
but you are conquered by a kiss….Daniel Heinsius.

A kiss: A peculiar proposition.
Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two.
The small boy gets it for nothing,
the young man has to lie for it,
and the old man has to buy it.
The baby’s right,
the lover’s privilege,
and the hypocrite’s mask.
To a young girl, faith;
to a married woman, hope;
and to an old maid, charity….V. P. I. Skipper.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting,
that last glance of love which becomes
the sharpest pang of sorrow….George Eliot.

The moment eternal — just that and no more –
When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core
While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut,
And lips meet!….Robert Browning.

There is the kiss of welcome and
of parting, the long, lingering, loving,
present one; the stolen, or the mutual one;
the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow;
the seal of promise and receipt
of fulfillment….Thomas C. Haliburotn.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature
to stop speech when words become superfluous….Ingrid Bergman.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives it its sweetness;
it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it….Christian Nestell Bovee.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom….e. e. cummings.

Never a lip curved with pain
can’t be kissed into smiles again….Unknown.

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels….Unknown.

What of soul was left, I wonder,
when the kissing had to stop?….Robert Browning.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me,
and be quiet….Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

I kissed her hard and held her tight
and tried to open her lips;
they were closed tight….Ernest Hemingway.

Why does a man take it for granted
that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her –
when, nine times out of ten,
she only wants him to want to kiss her?….Helen Rowland.

Though I know he loves me,
Tonight my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had….Sara Teasdale.

A man had given all other bliss,
And all his worldly worth for this,
To waste his whole heart in one kiss
Upon her perfect lips….Lord Tennyson.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves….Unknown.

Don’t wait to know a girl better to kiss her;
kiss her, and you’ll know her better….Unknown.

It’s impossible to kiss a girl unexpectedly –
only sooner than you thought….Unknown.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth:
for thy love is better than wine….Song of Solomon.

One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you….Robert Dodsley.

Is not a kiss the very
autograph of love?….Henry Finck.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
A rosy dot placed on the ‘i’ in loving;
‘Tis a secret told to the mouth
instead of to the ear….Edmond Resonated.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was
that first invented kissing….Jonathan Swift.

O love! O fire! Once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew….Alfred Tennyson.

…we kiss. And it feels like we have
just shrugged off the world….Jim Shahin.

If you are ever in doubt
as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl,
always give her the benefit of a doubt….Thomas Carlyle.

Every kiss provokes another.
Oh, in those earliest days of love
how naturally the kisses spring to life!
So closely, in their profusion,
do they crowd together that lovers would find it
as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour
as to count the flowers in a meadow in May….Marcel Proust.

Kissing is a means of getting two people
so close together that they can’t see
anything wrong with each other….Rene Yasenek.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud
as that of a cannon,
but its echo lasts
a great deal longer….Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t close his/her eyes
when you kiss….Unknown.

The most intimate kiss between two lovers
is not the kiss of their lips,
but the kiss of their tears….Brian Celece.

A kiss is the jumper cable of the heart….Unknown.

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad,
from the sticky confection to the kiss of death.
Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving.
How can we tell if she means it
or if she’s just practicing?….Ruth Gordon.

I can forget my very existence
in a deep kiss of you….Byron Caldwell Smith.

Kiss like you have all the time in the world, don’t rush it
Pretend like it is the first time you ever kissed.
Kiss like you will never kiss again.
Start kissing with little kisses first, to warm it up!!
Add another soft little kiss when the big one is over….Unknown.

You say you promise me just one kiss,
well I can promise you a thousand to follow….Rachel Schwarz.

I ran up the door and closed the stairs.
I said my pajamas and put on my prayers,
I turned off the bed and hopped into the light….
all because you *kissed* me goodnight….Unknown.

**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???**
Oh My Angel I doooo….A KISS is the beginning of,
middle to, and end of most things I love about life….Sir Philip.

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let’s kisse afresh, as when we first begun….Robert Herrick.

“Where should one use perfume?”
a young woman asked.
“Wherever one wants to be kissed,”
I said….Coco Chanel.

Husbands who kiss their wives
before leaving home in the morning
have been documented to live five
years longer than those who do not….Unknown.

Life, the gift of nature,
Love, the gift of life,
a Kiss, the gift of Love….Unknown.

Sir, more than kisses,
letters mingle souls.
For, thus friends absent speak….John Donne.

The most eloquent silence;
that of two mouths meeting in a kiss….Unknown.

When you kiss me, without uttering a single word,
you speak to my soul….Unknown.

Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery….Unknown.

A kiss can beautify souls, hearts, and thoughts….Unknown.

Kissing is like drinking salted water:
you drink and your thirst increases….Chinese Proverb.

Kisses kept are wasted;
Love is to be tasted.
There are some you love, I know;
Be not loathe to tell them so.
Lips go dry and eyes grow wet
Waiting to be warmly met.
Keep them not in waiting yet;
Kisses kept are wasted….Edmund Vance Cooke.

The Kiss Soon, yes soon, we’ll have our chance,
To embrace each other in love’s dance.
A dance which I’ll take her hand and show,
The love she’s yet to know.
And yes, we’ll know it with that kiss,
The first look of tender bliss.
The hug and warm embrace will say it all,
The fear and doubts we’ve had will fall,
Fall from the precipice into the abyss,
With that first sweet tender kiss….P. Bere.

My child, if you ever decide to let a man kiss you,
put your whole heart and soul into it.
No man likes to kiss a rock….Lady Chesterfield.

When [he] kisses you
he isn’t doing anything else.
You’re his whole universe….
and the moment is eternal
because he doesn’t have any plans
and isn’t going anywhere.
Just kissing you…
it’s overwhelming….Unknown.

“Upon the roses _she would feed; Until _her lips ev’n seemed to bleed, And then to Me ‘twould boldly trip, And print those roses upon My lip.”

Rose Quotes

Memories give you the power to collect roses in the winter….Unknown.

If I had a rose for every time I thought of you,
I’d be picking roses for a lifetime….Swedish quote.

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense….Mark Overby.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose….Hada Bejar.

A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you’ll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you’d rather die;
You hope you’ve found that special rose,
‘Cause you love and care for the one you chose….Rob Cella.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first
note says “For the woman I love” and the
second, “For my best friend”….Unknown.

A single rose can be my garden…a single
friend, my world….Leo Buscaglia.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns.
I am thankful that thorns have roses….Alphonse Kerr.

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those
who would steal the blossom….Chinese Proverb.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn…..Persian Proverb.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any
other name would smell as sweet….William Shakespeare.

True friendship is like a rose. We can’t
realize it’s beauty until it fades….Unknown.

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone
and more fragile than a rose….Turkish Proverb.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose
leaves on the heel that crushes it….Unknown.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses….Ovid.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a
language known only to the heart….Unknown.

A life with love must have some thorns, but a
life with no love will have no roses….Unknown.

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over
the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are
blooming outside our windows today….Dale Carnegie.

Red is the color of which I will bear.
Like the color of a rose it tells that I am true.
For me to state anything else is quite false. My love
for you runs more deep and more true than the glorious
color of a red rose. It runs more deep than the bluest
ocean or the widest sea. My love for you will always
be there, even though I may not be. If you are to
forgive me then the love that I have for you will pour
over you and fill your veins until the blood that now
flows in them will now be my love. It is so strong that
the moment that I stand up it knocks me down. I’ve never
met anyone quite like you. You are the only thing that keeps
me living. You are the only thing that is running through
my body. My body, mind and soul are taken over by your
power. Your love is the thing that makes my heart beat,
Every second that you’re not there it slows down 1
beat. When I hear your voice again my heart beats
faster hoping for your return….Candace Wheeler.

In my arms you are the most delicate rose….In my eyes you are
paradise to hold….In my mind you are never old….and in my heart
my love for you shall never dim but always be forever bold….Unknown.

Your kiss lingers like a drop of morning dew on a deep red rose….Unknown.

A woman is like a rose…If you take good
care of her, you will see love blossom….Unknown.

You cannot force open the petals of a rose.
When the rose is ready, she will open up to you….Unknown.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist
stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose….Kahlil Gibran.

If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather….Algernon Swinburne.

There may be many flowers in a man’s
life…but only one rose….Unknown.

romance

Romance Quotes

To love someone, when there is no chance of that love
ever thriving, that is romance….Dawson’s Creek.

A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a
true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life….Ana Alas.

Romance is about the little things — small loving gestures, hugs, saying
‘I love you’ (and meaning it), and sincere compliments….Gregory Godek.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love — women
like to be a man’s last romance….Oscar Wilde.

Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes
of those who don’t believe in romance….Jean Zheng.

A true Romantic is one who Romances
One woman forever….Unknown.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the
few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely
romantic, a thing must be irrevocable….G.K. Chesterton.

Is not this the true romantic feeling — not to desire to
escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?….Thomas Wolfe.

In a great romance, each person plays a part
the other really likes….Elizabeth Ashley.

The romantic embrace can only be compared
with music and with prayer….Havelock Ellis.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring
of fiction and love….Benjamin Disraeli.

To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall
in love with life — all of life — and experience it fully,
openly, passionately, and purposefully….Thomas Kinkade.

Make a little room in your plans for romance again,
Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world
can’t make up for the lack of it….Anne of Green Gables.

This story is about truth, beauty, freedom; but above
all things, this story is about love….Moulin Rouge.

The most important key to a more romantic life: you
have to be willing to pay attention….Thomas Kinkade.

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Heart Quotes

A memory is a photograph taken by the heart
to make a special moment last forever….Unknown.

Let your heart guide you. It whispers,
so listen closely….Land Before Time.

Sometimes someone says something really
small, and it just fits right into this empty
place in your heart….My So-Called Life.

You may hold my hand for a while,
but you hold my heart forever….Unknown.

The heart in pursuit of oneness will
find the most inexplicable beauty….Unknown.

A part of you has grown in me. And so you
see, it’s you and me together forever and
never apart, maybe in distance, but
never in heart….Brooke Zuroweste.

Once you have loved, You will always love. For
what’s in your mind may escape, but what’s in
your heart will remain forever. There is no
instinct like that of the heart….Lord Byron.

The heart has reasons that reason does
not understand….Jacques Benigne Bossuel.

As the ocean is never full of water,
so is the heart never full of love….Unknown.

What the heart gives away is never gone…
It is kept in the hearts of others….Robin St. John.

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a
genuine desire to be with another which
both attracts and heals….J. Isham.

When we love, we admire with the heart….Unknown.

Love is blind only to the eyes.
The heart sees everything clearly….Unknown.

A person’s actions depict the heart,
not the words they say….Brian Lee.

I think I would rather possess eyes that know no
sight, ears that know no sound, hands that know
no touch than a heart that knows no love….Unknown.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder….Al Bernstein.

To get a woman’s heart a man must first use his own….Unknown.

Passion: Some things capture the eye
but others capture the heart….Unknown.

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we
love with our hands…Sometimes with our bodies.
Always we make love with our hearts….Unknown.

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire….Proverb.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does
not go through the intellect….Gilbert K. Chesterton.

Within your heart, keep one still, secret
spot where dreams may go….Louise Driscoll.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth
of a wise man is in his heart….Benjamin Franklin.

It is not the size of a man but the size of
his heart that matters….Evander Holyfield.

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a
double, because a joy shared is doubled and
a pain that is shared is divided….Ruckett.

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while
first. Ask questions, then feel the answer.
Learn to trust your heart….Unknown.

For the outer sense alone perceives visible
things and the eye of the heart alone
sees the invisible….Richard of Saint-Victor.

Precious gifts of friendship…knowing the heart of
another, sharing one’s heart with another….Unknown.

Love is a tickle around the heart
that you can’t scratch!….Georgia.

Love keeps your heart busy….H. Wisdom.

Never close your lips to those whom
you have opened your heart….Unknown.

The heart knows when the search is over.
2 hearts, 2 souls, 2 minds, 1 destiny….Unknown.

Love is the power that heals the
soul and mends hearts….Jill Harrison.

Love is the enchanted dawn of
every heart….Alphonse De Lamartine.

Fear grows out of the things we think;
it lives in our minds. Compassion grows
out of the things we are, and lives
in our hearts….Barbara Garrison.

It is only with the heart that one
can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye….Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

The heart is wiser than the intellect….J.G. Holland.

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.

I fell in love with you the second I laid eyes
on you, it had nothing to do with the way you
looked, there was something in your eyes, then
I found out what was in your heart….Unknown.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is
a light in the heart….Kahlil Gibran.

The best and most beautiful things in this
world cannot be seen or even heard, but must
be felt with the heart….Helen Keller.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere
without sending anything but your heart….Unknown.

Let your heart be your compass, your
mind your map, your soul your guide…
and you will never get lost….Unknown.

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to
people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine
about them, and though it wears thin sometimes
there is always enough left to lasso your heart
– even when they are sitting in the mud, or
crying temperamental tears, or parading up the
street in Mother’s best clothes….Alan Marshall Beck.

There is a wisdom of the head, and…
a wisdom of the heart….Charles Dickens.

Be careful what you set your heart on,
for it will surely be yours….Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Love is space and time measured by the heart….Marcel Proust.

Making the decision to have a child — it’s momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart go
walking around outside your body….Elizabeth Stone.

My mind tells me to give up,
but my heart won’t let me….Jennifer Tyler.

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues
will rise of their own accord….W. T. Ussery.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the
contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together,
knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and
sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the
breath of kindness, blow the rest away….Arabian Proverb.

Above all be true to yourself, and if
you cannot put your heart in it, take
yourself out of it….Hardy D. Jackson.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it
is the means by which the soul, though
empty, is filled by God….John Bunyan.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest
virtue, but the parent of all other
virtues….Marcus Tullius Cicero.

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out
of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of
your heart. You can get him out of your study,
but you can’t get him out of your mind. Might as
well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your
boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized,
cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come
home at night with only the shattered pieces of
your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new
with two magic words Hi, Dad!….Alan Marshall Beck.

It does not require great learning to be a
Christian and be convinced of the truth of
the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a
willingness to obey God….Albert Coombs Barnes.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody
else, you will have succeeded….Maya Angelou.

One of the illusions of life is that the
present hour is not the critical, decisive
hour. Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year….Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A wise man should have money in his head,
but not in his heart….Jonathan Swift.

Life is short.
Time is fleeting.
Realize the self.
Purity of the heart is the gateway to God.
Aspire.
Renounce.
Meditate.
Be good; do good.
Be kind; be compassionate.
Inquire, know thyself….Swami Sivanada.

The widest thing in the universe is
not space, it is the potential capacity
of the human heart….A. W. Tozer.

No one is so utterly desolate,
but some heart, though unknown,
responds unto his own….Longfellow.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that
makes the heart too big for the body….Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom….Charles Dickens.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them,
since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and
in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart….Pietro Aretino.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on
your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him
and He will make your paths straight….Proverbs 3:5.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never
tires, and a touch that never hurts….Charles Dickens.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy
and a whole heart and a free mind….Pearl Sydenstricker Buck.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to
him by heart and his friends can only read the title….Virginia Woolf.

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth
to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a
lamp and then shutteth his eyes….Siddha Nagarjuna.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what
is true for you in your private heart is true for
all men — that is genius….Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart away from nature
becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living
things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too….Luther Bear.

Peace does not mean to be in a place
where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.
Peace means to be in the midst of all those
things and still be calm in your heart….Unknown.

It is the heart that makes a man rich.
He is rich according to what he is,
not according to what he has….Henry Ward Beecher.

I know that if I ever go looking for my heart’s desire,
I’ll never go any farther than my own backyard.
For if it isn’t there, I never really lost it….Wizard of Oz.

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain
them by the qualities we possess….Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached,
is not in my nature. I can never close my lips
where I have opened my heart….Charles Dickens.

Sometimes we are to guard our heart…protect it from invasion and
keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart…
let certain qualities out and release them to others….Charles Swindoll.

Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart….Mencius.

A good exercise for the heart is to bend
down and help another up….John Andrew Holmes.

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….Pearl S. Buck.

Whatever makes an impression on the
heart seems lovely in the eye….Sa’di.

We know the truth, not only by the reason,
but also by the heart….Blaise Pascal.

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart
and bring forth a flower….Shigenori Kameoka.

If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open,
and so is your heart. And though there may be times when
your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you
can give things out of that….Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Everyone should carefully observe which way
his heart draws him, and then choose that
way with all his strength….Hasidic Saying.

The heart of a poet is someone who can take a look at a plain
glass of water and say a few words that make people think that
it is the most marvelous thing in the world. They have the heart
to be able to see past what is seen on the outside and have the
depth and the ability to see what is hiding on the inside and
can bring it out for everyone to see. They can transform a dark
and stormy day into the most beautiful day one has ever been
to or seen. And they can look into themselves and bring out
their feelings without saying how they feel….Dr. R. Beaman.

Creation of Woman from the rib of Man:
She was not made from his head to top him;
Nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him;
But out of his side to be equal with him,
Under his arm to be protected,
And near his heart to be loved….Unknown.

The heart already knows
What the mind can only dream of.
Trust your heart….Unknown.

Hearts are not to be had as a gift
Hearts are to be earned….William Butler Yeats.

Don’t try to reason with your heart or feel with
your mind for just as the heart knows no logic,
the mind can’t lead you to your soul….Unknown.

Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases
great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs
up the fire….Francois Duc De La Rouchefoucauld.

Love cannot tame the wildest beast,
but it can tame the wildest heart….Unknown.

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart….Cicero.

An open ear is the only believable
sign of an open heart….David Augsburger.

There’s something in a simple hug that always warms
the heart. It welcomes us back home and makes it easier
to part. A hug’s a way to share the joy, and the sad
times we go through, or just a way for friends to say
they like you because you’re you. Hugs are meant for
anyone for whom we really care. From your Grandma to
your neighbor, or a cuddly teddy bear. A hug is an amazing
thing — it’s just the perfect way to show the love we’re
feeling but can’t find the words to say. It’s funny how
a little hug makes everyone feel good; in every place
and language, it’s always understood. And hugs don’t
need new equipment, special batteries or parts — just
open up your arms and open up your heart….Unknown.

If you forgive people enough you belong
to them, and they to you, whether either
person likes it or not — squatter’s
rights of the heart….James Hilton.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an
empty heart there is room for nothing….Antonio Porchia.

Nothing is less in our power than the
heart, and far from commanding we are
forced to obey it….Jean Jacques Rousseau.

How else but through a broken heart may
Lord Christ enter in?….Oscar Wilde.

MUSIC is one of the most beautiful forms of
expression…says what the heart can’t always put into
words….brings you places that have no roads….Unknown.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart….Confucius.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful
roses, what might not the heart of the human become in its
long journey toward the stars?….Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the
suffering itself, and that no heart has ever suffered when it
goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search
is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity….Paul Coelho.

You may find happiness of the heart in the little things you
do for others…for you are thus blessed by God….Evelyn Heinz.

If you know something, it is in your head. When you
believe something, it is in your heart….Gabriel A. Bankes.

Prayer from the heart touches another’s heart….Evelyn Heinz.

Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart
to a dear friend. People who have no secrets from each other
never want for subjects of conversation; they do not weigh their
words, because there is nothing to be kept back. Neither do they
seek for something to say; they talk out of the abundance of their
hearts, just what they think. Blessed are they who attain such
familiar, unreserved communication with God….Francois Fénelon.

Peace is a deep disposition of the heart. It is humility, an ability
to let go of the need to be right in our own eyes or the eyes of others,
an ability based on the knowledge that our rightness or wrongness
in any issue is totally irrelevant to God’s love for us or for our
neighbor. The peace that comes with claiming our self in God is the
foundation of our ability to carry God’s reconciling love to others in
the most humble places and humble everyday ways….Roberta C. Bondi.

I’m stuck like a dope
With a thing called hope,
And I can’t get it out of my heart….Oscar Hammerstein.

God’s most precious work of art is the warmth
and love of a grandmother’s heart….Unknown.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all
children of chance, and none can say why some fields will
blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for
those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are
no less than yours, their choices in life no more easily made.
And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess.
To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for
your harvest than for how it is shared, and your life will
have meaning and your heart will have peace….Kent Nerburn.

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is
frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient.
There is no point in trying to deceive the heart.
It depends upon our honesty for its survival….Leo Buscaglia.

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves
God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will
see God whether others see Him or not….Warren Wiersbe.

The mouth keeps silent to hear the
heart speak….Alfred De Musset.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when
they capture the heart through the groundwork of a
story, which engages the passions….Laurence Sterne.

If the eye is a window to the soul then
the heart is the doorway to love….Unknown.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything
in its vicinity freshen into smiles….Washington Irving.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between
the heart and the heavenly Father….Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Everybody can be great.
Because anybody can serve.
You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love….Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our
hearts. And we are never, ever the same….Unknown.

There comes a time in every life we find
the heart we’re looking for….LeAnn Rimes.

My heart, my life, my soul…she has the key to
them all. She has but to turn the key and allow me
to surround her…with my warmth and love….Unknown.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole
heart don’t know how to laugh either….Golda Meir.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness…my life was
without past or future…but a little word from the fingers
of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness,
and my heart leaped to the rapture of living….Helen Keller.

The heart that has truly loved, never forgets….Unknown.

A tear falls forever inside a broken heart….Unknown.

All that is in the heart is written on the face….Proverb.

You can admire a woman for her beauty, but you
can only respect a woman for her heart….Unknown.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart
filling up as the brain empties….Unknown.

Some people, no matter how old they get,
Never lose their beauty –
They merely move it from their faces
Into their hearts….Martin Buxbaum.

Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts….Unknown.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials,
heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the
place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us
in our sunshine, desert us; when troubles thicken around
us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind
precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness,
and cause peace to return to our hearts….Washington Irving.

God makes everything, but unbreakable hearts….Jessica Andrews.

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….Oscar Wilde.

The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart….Buddha.

If there’s delight in love,
’tis when I see that heart,
which others bleed for,
bleed for me….William Congreve.

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away;
and all the things I want to say can find no
voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my
eyes will speak my heart….Robert Sexton.

Follow your mind and be smart,
follow your heart and be happy….Unknown.

You never know how you touch someone’s heart…only that it
brings a smile and that warm “fuzzy” feeling….Bearhugs.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation.
Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself,
if you wish to get others….David Seabury.

Our heart is the voice of the soul.
Listen carefully and in its beating you
will hear the fluttering of angel wings….Unknown.

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see,
and knows what the mind cannot understand….Robert Valett.

Any man’s finest hour is when he has worked
his heart out in a good cause and lies
exhausted on the battlefield….Vince Lombardi.

We were two and had but one heart
between us….Francois De Montcorbier Villon.

Right now I am holding you in my heart,
so while it is not the physical touch,
I am holding you in that place that I hold
only you….Bryan Roberts, my very best friend :-)

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not
live in vain; if I can ease one life the aching,
or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his
nest again, I shall not live in vain….Emily Dickinson.

It’s beauty that captures your attention;
personality which captures your heart….Unknown.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording
chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty,
hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young.
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered
with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism,
and then only, are you grown old….General Douglas MacArthur.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will
I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love
and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms
my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit.
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will
love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome
happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for
it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due;
yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge….Og Mandino.

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my
days and a song to my heart….Thomas Kinkade.

But every house where Love abides
And Friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home-sweet-home;
For there the heart can rest….Henry Van Dyke.

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it’s
the heart that laughs….Liz Curtis Higgs.

We forget that we too are children whose hearts must be
opened, trusting and needful of God’s deep embrace where
all joy, all suffering is felt and borne….Wendy M. Wright.

My first glance fell on your heart!….Johann F.C.C. Schiller.

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes,
for there were countless treasures of the heart
which it could never purchase….Charles Dickens.

In relation to others, gratitude is good manners;
in relation to ourselves, it is a habit of the heart
and a spiritual discipline….Daphne Rose Kingma.

Great thoughts come from the heart….Luc De Clapiers.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with
a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts
as we travel towards our distant goal….Helen Keller.

You cannot tell your heart what it wants.
Your heart will tell you….Barbara Sher.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds,
waiting to sprout….Morihei Ueshiba.

May the blessing of light be on you, light without
and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on
you and warm your heart till it glows like a great
peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself
at it, and also a friend….Traditional Irish Blessing.

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money.
You’ve got to love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching.
You’ve got to come from the heart, if you want it to work….Susanna Clark.

As a young nun Mother Teresa wanted to work with the homeless
and hopeless but her superiors felt that she was too frail,
young, and inexperienced. She pleaded her case, but they
refused and assigned her to teach at a convent in India…
the years passed and Mother Teresa’s mission burned deep
in her heart. She grew in experience and determination.
She never gave up her dream. Finally, at age thirty-nine,
she was granted permission to embark on her calling.
With nothing more than the clothes on her back and the fire
of her mission burning deep in her heart, she left the school
and walked in the streets of Calcutta to begin….Sheila M. Bethel.

My life shines with God’s radiant blessings when
my heart is the color of joy….Thomas Kinkade.

Gratitude is the heart’s money….French Proverb.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free
to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry
with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love,
himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon
freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart….Leo Buscaglia.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather
strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose
heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,
will pursue his principles unto death….Thomas Paine.

The good man brings good things out of the good
stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil
things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out
of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks….Luke 6:45.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our
hearts are conscious of our treasures….Thornton Wilder.

Laughter is harder…
Friendship is stronger…
Trust is deeper…
When it comes from the heart….Unknown.

What I am saying is you get my Good People Award…this is not
an award of paper or metal, it is not an award that many people
can comprehend, it is an award of the heart. One shared among
people that just know what it is. They can not hold or see it,
they just feel it, and that feeling is more valuable than all the
gold in the world….Thank you for being there, Lee….Likewise :-)

The true nature of a heart is seen in its
response to the unattractive….Unknown.

love defined:

Love Quotes

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst….Kahlil Gibran.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude.
It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd….Louis Aragon.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love?
Just associate all your pleasant experiences with someone,
and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones….Richard Bandler.

You can give without loving,
but you cannot love without giving….Amy Carmichael.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame,
and the tamest spirit wild….Alexis Delp.

People love others not for who they are,
but for how they make them feel….Irwin Federman.

Love is like pi — natural, irrational,
and very important….Lisa Hoffman.

Love talked about is easily turned aside,
but love demonstrated is irresistible….Stan Mooneyham.

Love is a friendship caught on fire….Northern Exposure.

In love, there is always one who kisses
and one who offers the cheek….French Proverb.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven….Karen Sunde.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them.
We say we love trees, yet we cut them down.
And some people still wonder why some are afraid
when they are told they are loved….Unknown.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities
or pride; so I love you because I knew no other
way than this, where ‘I’ does not exist, nor ‘you’.
So close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so
close that your eyes close as I fall asleep….Pablo Neruda.

He drew a circle to shut me out, heretic rebel,
a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win,
we drew a circle that took him in….Edwin Markham.

In real love you want the other person’s good.
In romantic love, you want the other person….Margaret Anderson.

Dance like no one’s watching,
love like you’ll never be hurt,
sing like no one’s listening,
live like it’s heaven on earth….William Purky.

I love you, not for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you….Roy Croft.

Love is not a matter of counting the years –
it’s making the years count….Wolfman Jack Smith.

Love creates an “us” without
destroying a “me”….Unknown.

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….Elbert Hubbard.

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower
is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure — a
willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our
private world and a genuine interest in the private world of
that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves
to each other than to any other person….Nathaniel Branden.

To love is to enjoy seeing, touching, and sensing
with all the senses, as closely as possible, a lovable
object which loves in return….Del Amour Stendhal.

Love simply cannot spring up without that self-surrender
to each other. If either withholds the self,
love cannot exist….Dr. E. Stanley Jones.

The best proof of love is trust….Dr. Joyce Brothers.

Love is friendship set to music….Pollock.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself….Jean Anouilh.

When love is accompanied with deep intimacy,
it raises us to the highest level of human experience.
In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become
vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique
among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture
that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no
limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and,
at the same time, both….Leo Buscaglia.

I love you not only for what you are, but for
what I am when I am with you. I love you not
only for what you have made of yourself, but for
what you are making of me. I love you for the part
of me that you bring out….Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Love is an irresistible desire to be
irresistibly desired….Robert Frost.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases
great ones, as the wind blows out the candle
and fans the bonfire….Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.

True love stories never have endings….Unknown.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover,
instead of creating the perfect love….Tom Robbins.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction
that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather,
loved in spite of ourselves….Victor Hugo.

Gravitation is not responsible for
people falling in love….Albert Einstein.

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.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature
and embroidered by imagination….Voltaire.

Love is composed of a single soul
inhabiting two bodies….Aristotle.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and
the contact of two skins….Nicholas Chamfort.

Love is an energy – it can neither be created
nor destroyed. It just is and always will be,
giving meaning to life and direction to goodness…
Love will never die….Bryce Courtney.

Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.”
Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”….Erich Fromm.

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.

If I know what love is,
it is because of you….Herman Hesse.

The first duty of love is to listen….Paul Tillich.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength
while loving someone deeply gives you courage….Lao-Tsu.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick
whereby two people walk in different directions
yet always remain side by side….Hugh Prather.

Love is just a feeling of togetherness
and openness in your heart….Ken Keyes.

Love is not a matter of what happens in life.
It’s a matter of what’s happening in your heart….Ken Keyes.

You can’t force someone to love you; all you can do is
become someone who can be loved; the rest is up to them….Unknown.

A baby is born with the need to be loved — and never
outgrows it. Children are God’s apostles, day by day
sent forth to preach of love and hope and peace….James Russell Lowell.

Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just
beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly
it may alight upon you….Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The greatest pleasure of life is love….William Temple.

Where there is great love there are
always miracles….Willa Cather.

Who travels for love finds a thousand
miles not longer than one….Japanese Proverb.

Music is love in search
of a word….Sidney Lanier.

All, everything that I understand, I understand
only because I love….Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

Life is one fool thing after another where as
love is two fool things after each other….Oscar Wilde.

To love and be loved is to feel the
sun from both sides….David Viscott.

Life is a journey, and love is what
makes that journey worthwhile….Unknown.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own
depth until the hour of separation….Kahlil Gibran.

Love is too strong a word to say it too early, but it has too
beautiful a meaning to say it too late….Kurt Spiteri Cornish.

Lust is when you love what you see.
Love is when you lust for what’s inside….Renee Conkle.

The beginning of love is at the end
of resistance….Danielle Light.

Love is first friendship
and then commitment….Jacques Pierre Ribault.

To fear love is to fear life….Bertrand Russell.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit….Peter Ustinov.

We should all be so lucky to have someone who will
never let us go. The ultimate legacy is to leave behind
someone who will love you forever….Ally McBeal.

Fear? What is there to fear in love? Love is the very
reason we live. To fear love is to lose all sense of living,
and if we cannot love, then why have we been put here? Fearing
love is like being afraid of breathing. It’s not something
to be scared of. It’s so natural that no one can resist….Unknown.

We cannot choose who we love,
only whose love we accept….Unknown.

I love you, not because you are perfect,
But because you are so perfect for me….Unknown.

Couples who love each other tell each other
a thousand things without talking….Chinese Proverb.

Sex is a momentary itch,
love never lets you go….Unknown.

Let no one who loves be unhappy.
Even love unreturned has its rainbow….James Matthew Barrie.

Love will find a way through paths
where wolves fear to prey….Lord George Gordon Byron.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults.
When you love someone, you love them with their faults….Elizabeth Cameron.

Where there is love there is life….Mahatma Gandhi.

She who has never loved,
has never lived….J. Gay.

To love without expected return on my investment
frees me to love with purity of heart, mind and soul…
I am not distracted by selfish motive or disappointed
by insensitivity…I am free to love…just love….L. Hodge.

There is but one genuine love potion – consideration….Menander.

There is no surprise more magical than
the surprise of being loved: It is God’s
finger on man’s shoulder….Charles Morgan.

There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved….George Sands.

Love, you know, seeks to make happy
rather than to be happy….Ralph Connor.

Love is a verb. We can’t say it enough. Love must not
only be spoken, but must also be shown. The beginning of
love is God. He showed His love in the most sacrificial of
ways so we could know our incredible value to Him. The price
of our adoption was the emptying of heaven of its greatest
treasure, God the Son, who is our Savior….Phil Ware.

Love is the triumph of imagination
over intelligence….H.L. Mencken.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul….St. Augustine.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us….Helen Keller.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement
to trust, to risk, to try, to go on….Gloria Gaither.

Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is
more than verses on valentines and romance in the movies.
We begin to know that love is here and now, real and true,
the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator
of our favorite memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams.
Love is a promise that is always kept, a fortune that can never be
spent, a seed that can flourish in even the most unlikely of places.
And this radiance that never fades, this mysterious and magical joy, is the
greatest treasure of all — one known only by those who love….Unknown.

Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two
or more people to produce together conditions under which each
can be and spontaneously express, his real self; to produce
together an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in which
each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone….Unknown.

Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime,
and never let go till we’re gone….Titanic Theme.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the
imagination and bottling the common-sense….Helen Rowland.

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….Nathaniel Branden.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get,
but rooted in what you can give to the other person….Josh McDowell.

Love is energy of life….Robert Browning.

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….Honore De Balzac.

To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are.
Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate
goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they
look into the mirror of our love and see themselves….John Gray, Ph.D.

Once you have learned to love,
You will have learned to live….Unknown.

All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand….Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

To love is to be vulnerable….C.S. Lewis.

Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life,
love gives us a fairy tale….Unknown.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries
between your heart feelings and another person….Ken Keyes.

It [Love] is not a word, nor a single action.
In truth, it can never be wrong
Like the sunrise, perfect in every possible way.
It is many things and yet it must exist
In the small space of the heart.
Once found it can bloom endlessly, with no cease.
It can choke one’s throat, bring one to tears…
But it never hides in shadows or in darkness
It never feeds itself on deception.
It grows with trust, honesty and compassion.
Nothing less, always more….Unknown.

Love is a hole in the heart….Ben Hecht.

In Persian, the verb “to love” is translated
“to have a friend”….the phrase “I love you”
is translated “I have you as a friend”….Unknown.

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like a volcano and then
subsides and when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have
to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is
inconceivable that you should ever part, because this is what love is.
Love is not the breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the
promise of eternal passion, and it is not the desire to mate every
minute or every second of the day. That is just being “in love”
which any fool can do…Love itself is what’s left over when being in love has
burned away, and this both an art and a fortunate accident….Louis De Bernieres.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something,
but to be loved by the one you love is everything….Unknown.

Love is the doorway through which the human soul
passes from selfishness to service….Unknown.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another
person is essential to your own….Robert A. Heinlein.

When you are in love, life should not be measured by the
moments of breath, but by the breath-taking moments….Unknown.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love,
but love never subsides into friendship….Lord Byron.

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire
to be desired….Henri, Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Love is what is left in a relationship after
all the selfishness is taken out….Nick Richardson.

I love you, and because I love you, I would
sooner have you hate me for telling you the
truth than adore me for telling you lies….Pietro Aretino.

There is no disguise which can hide love
for long where it exists, or simulate it where
it does not….Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.

When we are in love we often doubt that
which we most believe….Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will
be tomorrow where your thoughts take you….James Lane Allen.

To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best….William M. Thackeray.

The way to love anything is to realize
that it might be lost….Gilbert Chesterton.

To love is to admire with the heart:
to admire is to love with the mind….Theophile Gautier.

Love does not die easily. It is a living
thing. It thrives in the face of all of life’s
hazards, save one–neglect….James D. Bryden.

Love is something eternal;
the aspect may change,
but not the essence….Vincent Van Gogh.

Kindness in words creates confidence
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness
Kindness in giving creates love….Lao-Tsu.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there
is more joy in the passion one feels than
in that which one inspires…..Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.

Love is union with somebody, or something,
outside oneself, under the condition
of retaining the separateness and
integrity of one’s own self….Erich Fromm.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that
nourishes, extends and preserves. It’s
eternal goal is life….Smiley Blanton.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it
enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the
little flower or to the little peanut they will give
up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently
commune with people they give up their secrets also — if
you love them enough….George Washington Carver.

Love is the essence of God….Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Music is expression of harmony in sound.
Love is the expression of harmony in life….Stephen F. Gaskin.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy,
but it is very rare because most people are strategists….Anita Brookner.

Being in love is a wonderful feeling but being
loved and appreciated in return can be the most
wonderful experience that can happen to your life….Unknown.

The art of love…is largely the
art of persistence….Albert Ellis.

The best portion of a good man’s life
is his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and of love….William Wordsworth.

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that ~ from this moment
forth ~ you will no longer pass through this world alone.
Like a new sun, this awareness rises within you, freeing
you from fear, opening your life. This is the beginning
of love and the end of all that came before….Unknown.

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 Baldwin.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting
place for those who love us….Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.

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.

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.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast,
as love can do with a twined thread….Robert Burton.

As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a
wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds
together the love of them that kiss….St. Aelred.

Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices
you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love,
study those who sacrifice for others. Love — the feeling –
is a fruit of love the verb….Stephen R. Covey.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life….Pablo Picasso.

Real love begins where nothing is
expected in return….Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Love is when each person is more concerned
for the other than for one’s self….David Frost.

Remember that the best relationship is
one in which your love for each other exceeds
your need for each other….Unknown.

Give all to love;
Obey thy heart….Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Love puts the fun in together,
the sad in apart,
the hope in tomorrow,
the joy in a heart….Unknown.

Love is its own reward….Thomas Merton.

I believe love produces a certain
flowering of the whole personality
which nothing else can achieve….Ivan Sergeevich.

Love: To feel with one’s whole self the
existence of another being….Simone Weil.

Between whom there is hearty truth
there is love….Henry David Thoreau.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together
And not merely each other…..Walter Lippmann.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire….Swedenborg.

Who, being loved, is poor?….Oscar Wilde.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid
of the power to love….Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Physical love is total intimacy.
It is the sign that the lovers have
nothing to refuse each other, that they
belong wholly to each other….J. Leclercq.

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.

We forgive to the extent that we love….Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.

Where there is a today….there was probably
a yesterday….but possibly never a tomorrow….
make the most of wherever your heart desires
to be….tell her you love her….Unknown.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting:
a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected — in so
far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness;
it took entire possession of him, and he understood,
with joyous amazement, that this was for life….Thomas Mann.

Holding the heart of another in the
comforting hands of prayer is a
priceless act of love….Janet L. Weaver.

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.

Love and respect are the most important aspects
of parenting, and of all relationships….Jodie Foster.

In those whom I like, I can find no common
denominator; in those whom I love I can:
they all make me laugh….Wystan Hugh Auden.

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 Adams.

Live through feeling and you will live through love.
For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth….Matt Zotti.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you
think more about the other person than about his
or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself
fully. When you dare to be vulnerable….Dr. Joyce Brothers.

A very small degree of hope is
sufficient to cause the birth of love….Stendhal.

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice.
When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love
in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative
joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least
a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most
intolerable of master, myself….Bernard Iddings Bell.

Because of a great love,
one is courageous….Lao-Tsu.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others.
It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes
to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and
sorrows of men. That is what love looks like….St. Augustine.

Love is a force more formidable than any other.
It is invisible — it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is
powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you
more joy than any material possession could….Barbara De Angelis.

The love of liberty is the love of others;
the love of power is the love of ourselves.
We cannot force love….William Hazlitt.

Where we love is home,
home that our feet may leave,
but not our hearts….Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Love is everywhere, it has no distance.
All you have to do is stop the resistance….Matt Zotti.

True love is the parent
of humility….William Ellery Channing.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom;
to serve all, but love only one….Honore De Balzac.

God loves each of us as if there
were only one of us….St. Augustine.

Sometimes you have to just take a chance in love and life.
You can’t live your life amongst a mound of “what ifs.”
You have to follow your heart and hope for the best….My Best Friend.

Love is more than words….Unknown.

To live is like to love – all reason is against it,
and all healthy instinct for it….Samuel Butler.

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of
a heart burning with love….Mother Teresa.

In life, actions speak louder than words,
but in love, the eyes do….Unknown.

Love is friendship that has caught fire.
It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence,
sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good
and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and
makes allowances for human weaknesses….Ann Landers.

The quickest way to receive love is to give;
the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;
and the best way to keep love is to give it wings….Unknown.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it….Ivan Panin.

Love is the child of freedom, never
that of domination….Erich Fromm.

Love is an instinct and hence beyond mind’s control.
Love is an emotion and works always with motion….Unknown.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my
heart” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love,
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course….Unknown.

If you have reasons for loving someone,
then you are using your mind, but if you
love someone for no reason,
then you are using your heart….Unknown.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,
and the delight in the recognition….Alexander Smith.

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk.
It must be a thing of action and sincerity….I John 3:18.

There is no remedy for love but to love more….Thoreau.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power
and there is no darkness it cannot dispel….Meher Baba.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly
every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with
his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses….Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

Love is the only game that is not called
on account of darkness….M. Hirschfield.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a
precious plant. You can’t 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.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the
divine life as an 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 Gibran.

Love is what happens to men and women who
don’t know each other….W. Somerset Maugham.

You know what’s the most terrifying thing about admitting
that you’re in love? You’re just naked. You put yourself
in harm’s way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes,
no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only
thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person
loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you….Unknown.

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes
us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every
emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are
flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an
afternoon. But that doesn’t diminish its value. Because we are left
with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives….Unknown.

Love is not what we become but who
we already are….Stephen Levine.

It is difficult for some people to accept that love
is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally
accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that
love is inborn and as such requires no more than to
accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical
force which frees us from all suffering and solves every
problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent,
there may be some truths to each of these beliefs,
but having the capacity to love is not the same as
having the ability to love….Leo Buscaglia.

Joy is a net of love that captures souls….Mother Teresa.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to
give out LOVE, and to let it come in….Morrie Schwartz.

When we love something it is of value to us, and when
something is of value to us we spend time with it, time
enjoying it and time taking care of it….M. Scott Peck.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction.
It is something accessible and human that we learn
through our everyday experience, as often at times
of failure as in moments of ecstasy….Leo Buscaglia.

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord
that is called love which can exist between
a man and a woman….Kahlil Gibran.

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass
through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape
parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that
that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are
scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come
along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique
talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because
we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we
underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act
of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around.
It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities
there are to make our love felt….Leo Buscaglia.

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of
the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes
human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for
us if only we can open ourselves to it….Emily Hilburn Sell.

If you open your heart,
love opens your mind….Unknown.

True love is the unearned compliment,
the gift forever giving….Burke Day.

Love is like a beautiful flower which
I may not touch, but whose fragrance
makes the garden a place of delight
just the same….Helen Keller.

Love is the reward of love….Schiller.

Hate is easy;
Love takes courage….Unknown.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of
affection, and not a fountain, to show them
that we love them, not when we feel like it,
but when they do….Nan Fairbrother.

When the one man loves the one woman and the one
woman loves the one man, the very angels leave
heaven and come sit in that house and sing for joy….Brahma.

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….D.H. Lawrence.

Love is wanting what you have, not having
what you want….Jaci in Alaska — an on-line love story.

Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many
ways to encourage that growth, such as through love,
nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service.
The soul grows well when giving and receiving love.
I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being
vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb,
an action word, not a noun….Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

Happiness and love are just a choice away….Leo Buscaglia.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin
without knowing what you mean to say, and finish
without knowing what you have written….Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Love is always saying you’re sorry….Rep. Burke Day.

Love is life…and if you miss love,
you miss life….Leo Buscaglia.

Heaven is the perfect,
unconditional love for another….Unknown.

Wicked men obey from fear;
good men, from love….Aristotle.

To love someone means to see him as
God intended him….Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

You love simply because you
cannot help it….Kim Anderson.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries.
But a woman who loves a
man would sleep on a board….D. H. Lawrence.

Love is being stupid together….Calvin.

Love cures people — both the ones
who give it and the ones who
receive it….Dr. Karl Menninger.

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all
in your own house. Give love to your children,
to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better
and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness;
kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in
your smile, kindness in your warm greeting….Mother Teresa.

True love never dies for it is lust that
fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime
but lust just pushes away….Alicia Barnhart.

Love is like playing the piano.
First you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and play from your heart….Unknown.

Absence sharpens love,
presence strengthens it….Traditional.

The greatest healing therapy is
friendship and love….Hubert Humphrey.

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

Plant impossible gardens.
Look forward to dreams.
Cry during movies.
Swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight.
Cultivate moods.
Do it for love.
Take lots of naps.
Take moonbaths.
Giggle with children.
Listen to old people.
Drive away fear.
Play with everything.
Entertain your inner child.
Build a fort with blankets.
Get wet.
Hug trees.
Write love letters….SARK.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist
Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my
life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be.
This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you
can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a
loving person, you realize not only that you are
altered, but that the people around you are also
transformed, because everybody is changed by
the reception of this love….Bernie Siegel.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee
The more I have, for both are infinite….Shakespeare.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to
choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is
a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to
God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even
death, can take God away from us. Joy is the experience
of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that
nothing–sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression,
war, or even death–can take that love away….Henri Nouwen.

Remember who loved you first….Jesus Christ.

Once you love, you cannot take
it back, cannot undo it. What you
felt may have changed, shifted slightly,
yet still remains love….Whitney Otto.

Patience with others is Love,
Patience with self is Hope,
Patience with God is Faith….Adel Bestavros.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and
her flaming self-respect and it’s these things I’d
believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild
suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be…I love her
and that’s the beginning of everything….F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The fruit of Silence is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer is Faith
The fruit of Faith is Love
The fruit of Love is Service
The fruit of Service is Peace…. Mother Teresa.

Listen more carefully •
Notice the seasons change •
Hold hands with someone you love •
Give more hugs •
Watch more sunsets •
Take walks •
Sing out loud more often •
Square dance a little •
Have more picnics •
Make friends wherever you go •
Feel good about yourself •
Daydream a little •
Laugh as much as possible •
Take your shoes off •
Use your imagination •
Tell more stories…. National Storytelling Festival.

Remembering God, or whatever you choose to call the
Loving force that created us, is what “waking up”
is all about. It is remembering that Love is what
created us and, therefore, Love is what we are. It is
remembering that we are spiritual beings, who were
created as the essence of Love….Jerry Jampolsky & Diane Cirincione.

1. Do what’s right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest;
remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get
out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable
when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you
want to be treated. Practice love and understanding….Lou Holtz.

In an article describing his Palm Springs home,
Architectural Digest reported that Frank Sinatra had
the following credo hanging on his bedroom wall:
I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining.
I believe in love even when not feeling it.
I believe in God even when He is silent….Unknown.

We can only learn to love by loving….Iris Murdoch.

Pleasant fragrances of the breezes of love blow from the
lovers even though they might conceal it. The effects of
these breezes bear witness to them even if they disguise
it and are apparent even if they hide it….Abu Ali Katib.

Love, then, hath every bliss in store; ‘Tis friendship,
and ’tis something more. Each other every wish they
give; not to know love is not to live….John Gray.

You may wish to be loving — you may even try with all your
might — but your love will never be pure unless you are free
from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving
is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is
generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments….John Gray.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong,
and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men
of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a
word, turning everything topsy-turvy….Marguerite De Valois.

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.

Two things you should NEVER say to the one you love:
“I love you, but…” and “If you loved me,
you would…” Should you really qualify love with conditions?….Unknown.

One forgives to the degree that one loves….Francois Duc De La Rochefaucould.

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is
surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the
mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever….Leo Buscaglia.

But love is a durable fire
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead
From itself never turning….Sir Walter Raleigh.

There are only four questions of value in life…
What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for? What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love….Don Juan De Marco.

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you’ve just got to fall….UB40.

Find the person who will love you because of
your differences and not in spite of them and
you have found a lover for life….Leo Buscaglia.

For women, “I love you” is the sweetest phrase in the
world. But not every man who says it means it. On the other hand,
some men may feel it deeply, but still find it hard to say.
There are several reasons these words might stick in a man’s throat.
The first is that, quite commonly, men have a difficult time
expressing the emotions they feel most deeply. Another reason
is the words “I love you” might be interpreted as a
marriage proposal. So that nothing gets lost in the translation,
men with this concern will wait for the time in which they
can back up their words with a lifetime commitment….John Gray.

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:
our love to others, and others’ love to us….Thomas Trahern.

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers,
never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love
there is life; hatred leads to destruction….Mahatma Gandhi.

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all
know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it,
not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the
issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes
become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember
that love is easy. It’s we who make it complicated….Leo Buscaglia.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in
the innermost core of his personality….Victor Frankel.

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention
and admiration, Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman,
what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper:
you are the most special person in my life….Charles Stanley.

Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender,
thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy,
than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word
will give more pleasure than a present….Sir John Lubbock.

The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a
woman’s primary love needs is through communication.
By learning to listen to a woman’s feelings, a man can
effectively shower a woman with caring, understanding,
respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance….John Gray.

Romantic-love relationships are made or broken by the effectiveness or
ineffectiveness of communication. The essence of mutual self-disclosure
is communication. And no element of communication is more important to
romantic love than that of feelings and emotions….Dr. Nathaniel Branden.

Love…Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love,
nor even control it. You can only guide its expression.
It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life
that invite it or deny its presence….David Seabury.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then
you will discover the fullness of your life….David Steindl-Rast.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is
not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough.
But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade
through whose steady presence one becomes
steadily the person one desires to be….Anna Strong.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly
the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and
more detached its tenderness becomes….Saint Teresa.

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we
only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore
the needs of the other person, we cannot love….Thich Nat Hanh.

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….Mother Teresa.

They do not love that do not show their love….William Shakespeare.

If you are truly in love with a man’s daughter.
You’ll love her till eternity ends, and after….Jerusalmi Streete.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems,
knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and
seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without
courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy….Dean Koontz.

Love is not losing freedom, it is sharing freedom with another….Unknown.

Love is an education in itself….Eleanor Roosevelt.

Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days,
and the secret of its meaning is found in simple ways.
Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow
feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart….Kay Knudsen.

If I tell you I love you can I keep you forever?….Casper.

Love doesn’t require anything of the other person….
love gives without asking anything in return….Unknown.

To the child, Love is both real and pretense:
a necessity sometimes, a role at other times:
instinctive, yet learned behavior….Unknown.

A newly married couple said, “What shall we do
to make our love endure?” Said the Master,
“Love other things together”….Anthony De Mello.

Love does not bind with chains and demands,
love gives the soul wings. Love teaches freedom
and happiness and gives inner peace….Unknown.

What love is: It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation,
utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the
whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter….Charles Dickens.

The moment I heard my first love story I began seeking you…
not knowing that the search was useless. Lovers don’t meet somewhere
along the way, they’re in one another’s soul from the beginning….Unknown.

Love is when the woman of your dreams becomes a
reality and sleep stops being a priority….Unknown.

‘Tis better to have loved and lost,
than never to have lost at all….Samuel Butler.

Love is like the moon; when it does
not increase it decreases….Segur.

Love can happen anywhere at any time and
almost always when we least expect it….Unknown.

Marry a person you love to talk to. As you
get older, their conversational skills
will be as important as any other….Unknown.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in
what it keeps, but in what it gives….Father Andrew.

Lust is a state of the mind, love is a
state of the heart & soul….Unknown.

No one can tell anyone what love is; you will simply
know it when you feel nothing else….Jared Little.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength,
and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish
much, and what is done in love is done well….Vincent Van Gogh.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything
and two minus one equals nothing….Mignon McLaughlin.

Love is the only gold….Tennyson.

We all love best not those who offend us least,
nor those who have done most for us, but those who make
it most easy for us to forgive them….Samuel Butler.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is
above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks
all things lawful for itself, and all things possible….Thomas A. Kempis.

Love is not finding someone to live with,
it’s finding someone you can’t live without….Rafael Ortiz.

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is
love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in
action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough
situations; and temperance is love in training….D.L. Moody.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love….Goethe.

Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because
it sees more, it is willing to see less….Rabbi Julius Gordon.

And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and
everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge,
which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up
losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And
that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more….Ann Rinaldi.

Love can hope where reason would despair….George, Lord Lyttleton.

True love doesn’t have a happy ending:
true love doesn’t have an ending….Unknown.

The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice….Carolyn Fry.

Love is…born with the pleasure of looking at each other,
it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is
concluded with the impossibility of separation….Jose Marti Y Perez.

Love distills desire upon the eyes,
love brings bewitching grace into the heart….Euripides.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love….Dr Laura.

Once you’ve felt love, you’ll know it’s love
because you don’t want to let it go….Jean Zheng.

If you can’t love me at my worst,
you don’t need me at my best….Unknown.

Love is when you are kept awake at night with
thoughts of him…and when sleep finally finds you,
he is waiting there in your dreams….Unknown.

Love ever gives-forgives-outlives and ever stands with
open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love’s
prerogative — to give and give and give….John Oxenham.

Love may last for just a moment but memory
can make that moment last forever….Unknown.

Love is like air, you cannot see it, however you can feel it.
Sometimes it can create great turbulence and other times
it is so calm you question it’s reality….Unknown.

Love isn’t just ‘at the moment’ it’s forever….Unknown.

The story of love is hello and goodbye…
until we meet again….Jimi Hendrix.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given
never forgotten, never let it disappear….John Lennon.

Love one another, but make no bond of love; let it rather be
a moving sea between the shores of your soul. Fill each other’s
cup, but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread,
but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and
be joyous, but let each one of you be alone….Kahlil Gibran.

Love suffers long
And is kind.
Love envies not.
Seeks not her own.
Thinks no evil.
Bears all things.
Believes all things.
Hopes all things.
Love never fails….I Corinthians 13:4-6.

Never forget that the most powerful
force on earth is love….Nelson Rockefeller.

Love is…running into his arms,
Colliding with his heart,
And exploding into his soul….Unknown.

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires
effort to keep it healthy….Leo Buscaglia.

Love is a flower…you’ve got to let it grow….John Lennon.

Love runs raw and wild through my heart and soul,
nourishing me and helping me to grow….Unknown.

Love is a mutual self-giving which
ends in self-recovery….Fulton J. Sheen.

How blessed I am that I can walk beside you, lean upon you,
and live within the warmth of your love….Roy Lessin.

Love is a gift. You can’t buy it, you can’t
find it, someone has to give it to you.
Learn to be receptive of that gift….Kurt Langner.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own
mind in order that I may love myself is very different
from the image which I try to create in the minds of
others in order that they may love me….Wystan Hugh Auden.

When you have nothing left but love, then for the first
time you become aware that love is enough….Unknown.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be
consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life….Saint Francis of Assisi.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never
have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love
is the basis of all love….Thomas Traherne.

I think of love as a muscle like the heart.
It’s powerful. It pumps blood through you and keeps
you alive and feeling good….Amanda Innis.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how
the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult
to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get….Morarji Desai.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely
learn to serve others, we develop God’s love in our lives.
Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us
to live worthily and to overcome the world….David B. Haight.

‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one,
walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in
a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends
in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but
in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it….Miguel De Cervantes.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and
every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light.
Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every
separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand
the mystery of the whole resting in God….Fyodor Dostoevski.

Love works a different way in different minds
the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds….John Dryden.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that
you care for to be what they choose for themselves,
without any insistence that they satisfy you….Wayne Dyer.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ
hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying
to the world, ‘I love you’….Billy Graham.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was
in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak
was out at the elbows, the water passed through his
shoes — and the stars through his soul….Victor Hugo.

Love is the only bow of life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and
Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds
its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer
of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every
heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth,
it was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to
joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay….Robert Green Ingersoll.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow
back and soften and purify the heart….Washington Irving.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered
the storms of life. The love of the young for the young,
that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for
the old, that is the beginning of things longer….Jerome K. Jerome.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond
one’s wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one
conceive what love is, beforehand, never….D. H. Lawrence.

Human Love…It is that extra creation that stands hurt and
baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children
and sunlight and breath to go on, forever….Christopher Leach.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being.
We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe
love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold
our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us….Guy De Maupassant.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives
like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then
trembles least it has done to little….Hannah More.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do…
but how much love we put in that action….Mother Teresa.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has
to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without
getting tired. Be faithful in small things because
it is in them that your strength lies….Mother Teresa.

The way of peace is the way of love.
Love is the greatest power on earth.
It conquers all things….Peace Pilgrim.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a
thought of receiving anything in return….Peace Pilgrim.

Love expands….Hugh Prather.

Love rules his kingdom without a sword….Proverb.

It is easy to half the potato where there is love….Irish Proverb.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response
to one’s own values in the person of another. One gains a
profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence
of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish
happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love….Ayn Rand.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little
haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure
of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised
when they are not praiseworthy….Bertrand Russell.

The root of the matter…the thing I mean…is love, Christian love,
or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence,
a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative
necessity for intellectual honesty….Bertrand Russell.

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your
love in the world in spite of human failure.
Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite
of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge
that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.
And show us what each one of us can do to set forward
the coming of the day of universal peace….Frank Borman.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for
extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out
your affections on one you love. And when the time
comes — seize it, don’t miss it….Max Lucado.

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….Henry Ward Beecher.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste
time…it tells us to tell each other right now
that we love each other….Leo F. Buscaglia.

“True love” isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have
as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially — even,
or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it….William R. Mattox, Jr.

Two hearts, two minds, in time did find
one love, one aim two paths the same.
Hold fast…and love will last….Matt Buttram.

There is seemingly so little love shared in this world,
it is not surprising that we ask, “Where have all
the lovers gone?” Since love is the most vital energy
for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling
why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea
until we put it into action…unless we are always actively
living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have
been given and which we, in turn, have to offer….Leo Buscaglia.

There is much to be known, and above all much to
be loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shape
of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love,
the more we add to the measure of our hearts….Adaon.

In a relationship. The times that I remember the most.
Are the times when I was with my girlfriend in the spirit of
love. Not in the feeling of lust….Brad Breitenstein.

Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear…
if you do not feel the jolt in your soul every time
a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt,
then you’re not really in love at all….C. J. Franks.

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.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between
your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls,
the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and
the more real moments you will experience together….Barbara De Angelis.

Worship: It is the song of the heart that is grateful to God.
Work: It is the secret of success.
Play: It is the symbol of youthfulness.
Read: It is the source of knowledge.
Think: It is the strength of the mind.
Love: It is the sacrament of life.
Dream: It is the soul of aspiration.
Help: It is the secret of happiness.
Laugh: It is the song of experience.
Pray: It is the source of strength.
Plan: It is the secret of being able
to have time for all of the above.
Inspiration….Unknown.

Each of us is responsible for creating an environment
of warmth and consideration for those we love. I have
always tried to define a good day not in terms of one
in which all things were made right and comfortable for
me but rather, as a day in which I have been able to make
another’s day more loving and special for them. We must
treat each other with dignity. Not because we merit it
but because we grow best in thoughtfulness….Leo Buscaglia.

To love only for the looks is to only see with your eyes,
but to love with your soul is to see with your heart….Unknown.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; those
things you must build upon in order to have a solid
emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson,
love the person/people (anyway); and put what you have learned
to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is
said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant….Unknown.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price….St. Jerome.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong,
patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous,
and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh
his own, there he falleth from love….Thomas ã Kempis.

Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown
and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the
hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and
chill, summer’s warmth is in them still….Leo Buscaglia.

Remember that you don’t choose love. Love chooses you.
All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery
when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills
you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away.
Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you.
Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit. Give it
to the world around you in any way you can….Unknown.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point,
then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except
what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment
onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled
with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand,
uplifted and positive in every thought and deed….Eileen Caddy.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely
to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it….Rumi.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Against such things there is no law. Notice the word *fruit*
is singular, yet it lists nine….Galatians 5:22. So there is
only one fruit of the Spirit. That fruit is love. The others….
Joy — love smiling
Peace — love resting
Patience — love waiting
Kindness — love showing itself
sensitive to others’ feelings
Goodness — love making allowances
Faithfulness — love proving constant
Gentleness — love yielding
Self-control — love triumphing over
selfish inclinations….Unknown.

Forever will little opportunities to love daily drop
into our hands to abundantly satisfy the question,
“Lord, what will you have me do?”….Unknown.

The litmus test of discipleship is in Jesus’
own words, “By this all will know you are
My disciples, if you love one another”….John 13:35.

Don’t be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender,
thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy
than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word
will give more pleasure than a present….Sir John Lubbock.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well
as those who refuse to love us….Dr. Karl Menninger.

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

Lust is the forest fire that destroys everything
in its path, love is a torch that burns
intensely and bonds two hearts….Unknown.

Love is taking the standards that you have for
someone, or even your own feelings, and having
them totally blown away….J. Edward Bucher.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither,
the heart’s blessing can heal, and that love can
overcome all odds….Ralph Waldo Emerson :-)

Peace will come when the power of love
overcomes the love of power….Jimi Hendrix.

Love has to spring spontaneously from within
And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force.
Love and coercion can never go together;
But though love cannot be forced on anyone,
It can be awakened in him through love itself.
Love is essentially self communicative;
Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.
True love is unconquerable and irresistible,
And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself,
Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches….Meher Baba.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession,
everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever
achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it,
and among all, never…never forget it….Curtis Judalet.

To love another person is to see the face of God….Victor Hugo.

I love you. And not in a friendly way, although I think
we’re great friends. And not in a misplaced affection,
puppy-dog way, although I’m sure that’s what you’ll call it.
And it’s not because you’re unattainable. I love you.
Very simply, very truly. You’re the epitome of every attribute
and quality I’ve ever looked for in another person….Chasing Amy.

To love one who loves you,
To admire one who admires you,
In a word,
to be the idol of one’s idol,
Is exceeding the limit of human joy;
It is stealing fire from heaven….Delphine De Girardin.

I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy
with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves
have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make
a whole. But two wholes when they coincide…
that is beauty. That is love….Peter McWilliams.

Do you want me to tell you something really
subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked
up to be. That’s why people are so cynical
about it…it really is worth fighting for,
being brave for, risking everything for.
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything,
you risk even more….Erica Jong.

Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission.
It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon
authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect
and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely
given by a healthy, unafraid human being….Dan Barker.

This is the miracle that happens every time
to those who really love; the more they give,
the more they possess….Rainer Maria Rilke.

You know it’s love when the tiny details about
another person, ones that are insignificant to most
people, seem fascinating and incredible to you….Unknown.

Only love lets us see normal things in an
extraordinary way….Alejandro De Solminihac.

Treasure the love you receive above all.
It will survive long after your gold and
good health have vanished….Og Mandino.

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity,
eternity can be the tick of a clock. Across the barriers
of time and the ultimate destiny, love persists, for the
home of the beloved, absent or present, is always in the
mind and heart. Absence does not diminish love….Mary Parrish.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance….Brian Tracy.

True love begins when nothing is looked
for in return….Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard
to hear pride. Caring is real faint — like a heartbeat.
And pure love — why, some days it’s so quiet,
you don’t even know it’s there….Erma Bombeck.

True love comes quietly, without
banners or flashing lights….Erich Segal.

If you create the space and the desire to have love in your
heart as your top priority, you’ll start to see that you have
the capacity to make loving decisions, and to have loving
reactions, and to become nondefensive, and to become a better
listener…and pretty soon a little annoyance will come your
way or someone will do something wrong…and you’ll just find
yourself forgiving them. You’ll find yourself not wanting to
be thrown off-center simply to follow some negative train of
thought that’s going to bring you somewhere you don’t want to
go. You’ll find yourself able to stay in that feeling of love –
and when you do, almost everything else magically takes care of
itself…love is the most important answer in life….Richard Carlson.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses,
and yet it is the humblest imaginable….Mahatma Gandhi.

The greatest possession we have costs
nothing; it’s known as love….Brian Jett.

Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a
principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude,
moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility
are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are
not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true
north, your heart will recognize true principles….Sean Covey.

If we don’t tell them we love them, the ones we
fall in love with are usually gone before we had
the chance to lose them ourselves….Unknown.

Love is the hammer that will break the hardest heart….Unknown.

Those who are afraid of love and where it might
take you, don’t be. For letting someone into your
life and letting them know you that well is the
greatest accomplishment ever….Nikole Flannery.

Love has the power to break all chains –
Swim the deepest seas –
Endure the strongest pains –
Love is the glow in the darkest night leading
you on until you have sight….Cristoto Larita.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a
love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never
go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s
nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time
and build your wings on the way down….Ray Bradbury.

You can search throughout the entire universe for
someone who is more deserving of your love and affection
than you are yourself, and that person is not to be
found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the
entire universe, deserve your love and affection….Buddha.

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart,
for eyes may be deceived….Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

Love dictates, but a kiss writes the secrets of the heart….Unknown.

If you begin the day with love in your heart,
Peace in your nerves,
And truth in your mind,
You not only benefit by their presence
But also bring them to others,
To your family and friends, and to all those
Whose destiny draws across your path that day….Unknown.

Even if courage fails you, tell that special someone
that you love them in anyway possible….Unknown.

When someone opens his/herself up to you,
it is not so that you know where to
attack in the time of battle, but so
that you know how to protect him/her from
the world with your love….Unknown.

Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other
but by how many times you reach each other….Cathy Moraney.

Let’s try to remember that love means keeping in
touch with each other’s thoughts and feelings…
listening, not just to words, but to the emotions
behind them…seeing, not just the smiles and frowns,
but the hurts and pleasures that cause them….Unknown.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks
simultaneously the head, the heart, & the senses….Voltaire.

When you really want love you will
find it waiting for you….Oscar Wilde.

You must love yourself before you love another.
By accepting yourself and fully being what you are…
your simple presence can make others happy….Jane Roberts.

The person who doesn’t fit in with our notions of who is worthy
of our love — the bag lady at the corner, the strange man who
rides through town on a three wheel bike all strung up with
flags — is just the person who, by not fitting into our patterns,
insists that we expand not only our views but also our capacity
to love. Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your
love so that it touches not only those whom you can give it easily,
but also those who need it so much….Daphne Rose Kingma.

To love is to place happiness in the heart of another….Leibnitz.

I’m still kissing your hand as one that truly loves all
the yous….words of the most sensitive guy I know…
my forever friend Philip Larson….I love you :-)

I love the sun for days, the moon for night,
and you forever….Philip….”ditto” from me to you :-)

I have a thought…the one God has meant for us is going to
be the hardest to get, the hardest to keep, and the hardest
to accept. Because through all that, love will grow stronger,
bonds will become thicker, and the future will become more
clear. Love wasn’t made to be easy, otherwise, we wouldn’t
end up with the RIGHT person, we would end up with the first
one who came along. By struggling, we single out the wrong
ones and realize who really is the ONE….J.D.

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….Rainer Maria Rilke.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of
pleasure and madness of desire — oh, no — love is
not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure
living – yes, love is that and it is the best thing in
the world and the thing that lives the longest….Henry Van Dyke.

…when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives
but are grateful for the abundance that’s present — love, health,
family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits
that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls
away and we experience heaven on earth….Sarah Ban Brethnach.

It is not love, but lack of
love which is blind….Glenway Wescott.

‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free.
‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be.
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight….Traditional Shaker Hymn.

Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy –
to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy….Lawrence G. Lovasik.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world;
a prescription often given, too rarely taken….Dr. Karl Menninger.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we
must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete
sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be
saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be
accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love….Reinhold Niebuhr.

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made,
like bread, re-made all the time, made new….Ursula K. Le Guin.

Sometimes we see things not as they are but as
we are: Love brings understanding….Unknown.

Love is broad; if you love someone, you love all things,
not just their beauty. Love is narrow; you love one and
only one, compared to them, no one matters….A. Braxton.

Love is blind. That is why he always
proceeds by touch….French Proverb.

It is the special quality of love not to be
able to remain stationary, to be obliged to
increase under pain of diminishing…. Andre Gide.

The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame,
for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it
yields and the longer its force lasts….Chrétien De Troyes.

We live by admiration, hope and love….William Wordsworth.

A successful marriage requires falling in love
many times, always with the same person….Mignon McLaughlin.

A job is what we do for money;
work is what we do for love….Marysarah Quinn.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth
out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth
is not made perfect in love….1 John 4:18.

Love is something wonderful, it nears to the divine,
it is something man nor beast can hate, nor yet
can thy define. Oh sweet and mystic words of love,
so gentle, and so dear, they penetrate the soul of
man, so that his heart may hear….K R Lamprey.

If you open your heart, love opens your
mind….Charles John Quarto, Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro.

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision….Helen Keller.

Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do
all that you could not do unloved….Marques De Santillana.

Whom we love best, to them we can say least….English proverb.

Love is that enviable state that knows no
envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing
to be greater than oneself….Joe McMahon.

There are mysteries about our love. Things that neither
one of us may ever understand because love is an emotion
without limit and understanding. We know we love each other
but we could never explain completely as why we love each
other. Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart
just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you
probably could never get it back together again….Unknown.

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it
is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon the
unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all; faith means
believing the unbelievable, or it is no virtue at all;
and to hope means hoping when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all….G.K. Chesterton.

Love all, trust a few;
Do wrong to none….William Shakespeare.

It isn’t possible to love and part…you can
transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you
can never pull it out of you. I know from experience
that the poets are right: love is eternal….E M Forester.

Live to love, and love to live….Pierre Khalbourji.

A man is a little thing while he works
by and for himself; but when he gives
voice to the rules of love and justice,
he is godlike….Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden –
it’s something you have to make. And you must
use your imagination too….Joyce Cary.

Love is a feeling that is held tightly within the heart.
It begins small and then consumes the body, and pours out
our skin flowing eternally to merge with its beloved
waters. It is a mark of pride, that scars the body for
all others to look upon. Eyes will speak of the burning
and consuming cool warmth from head to toe. The shiver
of a touch reversed by the warm burning touch of the skin.
These feelings are impossible for one to gain, for it is only
known in the eyes of the beholds of love….Paul John Kayiales.

Love considers the well-being of others
as important as its own….Unknown.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving
God the holiest way he can….Alice Cary.

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance
that they’ll love you back…don’t expect love in
return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but
if it doesn’t, be content it grew in yours….Unknown.

Just as the wind dances in my hair, as the ocean massages
my thoughts, as the sun blankets me in happiness, and as
the earth travels with me across universal challenges,
so all the elements of your love fill my life….Unknown.

In love, never put yourself in a situation where
you’re not sure of where you stand in a person’s
life…never assume, never expect so that if they drop
you, you have enough strength to move on….Unknown.

Love without friendship is life without hope….Unknown.

The measure of our love for others can be largely determined by
the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them….Unknown.

Love doesn’t need to be doubted, tested or proven…
it’s meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured.
Find your strength in love….SARAH.

The consciousness of loving and being
loved brings a warmth and richness to life
that nothing else can bring….Oscar Wilde.

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement,
worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm,
well-being, ease, energy, love….Peter McWilliams.

The best way to know God is to love many things….Vincent Van Gogh.

Kindness in words creates confidence,
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
Kindness in giving creates love….Lao-Tsu.

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