“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person”
- Margaret Anderson
“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”
- Fr. Jerome Cummings
“No sooner met but they looked;
No sooner looked but they loved;
No sooner loved but they sighed;
No sooner signed but they asked one another the reason;
No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;
And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.”
- William Shakespeare
“I don’t want to live-
I want to love first,
And live incidentally.”
- Zelda Fitzgerald
“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
- Anton Chekhov
“And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.”
- Kahlil Gibran
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.”
- William Shakespeare
“I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
- Lynda Barry
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
- Robert Heinlein
“Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love, though I’d stepped in it a few times.”
- Rita Rudner
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.”
- Amy Lowell
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
- Helen Keller
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
- Mignon McLaughlin
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
- Kahlil Gibran
“I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
- Vita Sackville-West
“Absence is to love
What wind is to fire;
It extinguishes the small,
It enkindles the great”
- Roger De Bussy-Rabutin
“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
“We are all born for love… it is the principle existence and it’s only end.”
- Benjamin Disraeli
“….A simple I love you means more than money….”
- Frank Sinatra
“How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love’s beginning.”
- Thomas Campbell
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.”
- Sophocles
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
- Mark Twain
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
- John Donne
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
- Henry Ward Beecher
“… See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.”
- Gretchen Kemp
“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.”
- Dr Seuss
“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
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
- Kahlil Gibran
“What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes…”
- Elizabeth Barret Browning
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