GLESING QUOTES:RANDOM PICKED FROM.NET

“ Love is a game that two can play and both win.”

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ”

“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we’re really not that different, me and you.”

“Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.”
“Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.”

“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.”

“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“There is no silence in my heart, when I’m in love. There is not tears from my soul, no longing or hatred — only passion, love and romance. When I’m with you, this is how I am. I love you.”

“They do not love that do not show their love.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love is a familiar. Love is a devil.
There is no evil angel but Love.”

“Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without-”

“Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.”

“Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.”

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”

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

“Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.”

“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.”
—Ingrid Bergmen

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin6. “Love is the beauty of the soul.”
—St. Augustine

“My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.”
—Ibn Abbad

“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.”
—Margaret Anderson

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
—Janos Arnay
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
—Aristotle

“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
—Aphra Behn

“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”
—Sarah Bernhardt

“In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.”
—Bliss and Cerney

“Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks…”
—John Dunne

“What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes…”
—Elizabeth Barret Browning

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
—Robert Browning
“But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.”
—Robert Burns

“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…”
—Lord Byron

“Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.”
—Lord Byron

“I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.”
—Roy Croft
“You’re nothing short of my everything.”
—Ralph Block

“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.”
—Euripides

“I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.”
—Andre Gide

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
—Robert Heinlein

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

“What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”
—Victor Hugo

“It’s so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it’s not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it…. In our hands.”
—Jaka

“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
—John Keats

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
—Helen Keller
“… 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 came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.”
—Amy Lowell

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
—Christopher Marlowe

“Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
—Christopher Marlowe

“Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.”
—Alphonse Marie de la Martine

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

“We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.”
—Pablo Neruda

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it…you and you alone make me feel that I am alive…Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
—George Moore

“In love there are two things: bodies and words.”
—Joyce Carol Oates

“I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.”
—Rumi

“I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
—Vita Sackville-West

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
—George Sand

“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

“My heart is ever at your service.”
—William Shakespeare

“The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”
—William Shakespeare

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

“I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.”
—Song of Solomon

“Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango.”
—Srzgarakarika

“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”
—Karen Sunde

“Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire…”
—A. C. Swinburne

“Love is friendship set on fire.”
—Jeremy Taylor

“Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again.”
—Unknown

“Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile…”
—Unknown

“I see my fated stars in your eyes. They melt me like the sun does snow.”
—Unknown

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

“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.”
—Unknown

“If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand.”
—Unknown

“If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever.”
—Unknown

“Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you.”
—Unknown

“Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet.”
—Unknown

“The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.”
—Unknown

“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense.”
—Vincent van Gogh

“Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.”
—Lope de Vega

“Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.”
—Paul Verlaine

“When a heart finds another, what’s a cloud more or less in the sky?”
—Wolf and Page

“The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
—Josiah G. Holland

“From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.”
—Unknown

“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”
—Sir Hugh Walpole

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
—Erich Fromm

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
—Sam Keen

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
—Victor Hugo
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
—Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“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
“The life and love we create is the life and love we live.”
—Leo Buscaglia
“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
“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.”
—J. Isham
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
—Lao Tzu
“The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.”
—Unknown
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
—St. Augustine
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
—Thomas Fuller
“Paradise is always where love dwells.”
—Jean Paul F. Richter
“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
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
—Elizabeth Browning
” When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. “
— Dr Suese
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
—Herman Hesse
“So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
—Bruce Lee
“She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
—Byron
“….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
” Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep… wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you’ re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU… The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her… “
— Unknown
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
—Henry David Thoreau
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
—Alfred Lord Tennyson
“All love is sweet, given or returned.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley ]

wE dnt always have As mucH time together as i’D like ,but there are mAny times evryday within my thoughts turns to you…i dnt always take time to tell you how much i cAre bt i hOpe ü knOw how muCh i do…

if i could have the chance, i’ll ask you to dance or take you on a trip to france, but all i can is set myself in a trance where i can be with you in a glance.

sUmDaY iL bE gOnE dEr wIl bE nO rIs0n fOr mE 2 sTaY w0rDs lEfT uNsPoKeN aCtIoNs nEvEr eXpReSSed bUt U kNoW wHaT?iL nVr 4gEt hOw YOU oNcE mAdE ME cOmPLeTe..

sometimes in life…we tend to RUN so FAST, that we don’t notice GOD RUNNING with US…We only NOTICE HIM when we FALL and HE stops…to CARRY Us! Gud PM!

Il reach 4 ur hand n d cold of winter. Il reach 4 ur hand n d heat f summr.But f my short lyf cant reach d dawn of spring, I promis n heavn il reach u wid my wings.

FYT 4UR LOVE, dats ol dey say.LET HER KNOW & DON’t LET HER GO, so what dey think of. IT WUD WORK OUT is dey beliv in. SET UR HART FREE, its wat they see. but how can i……wen 4u ITS NEVER ME?!!!

wana touch ur face wyl saying dis “i knw dat ur not mine…but my heart says dat im urs… i cnt even hold u dis tym and tel u how much i love u honey….but u knw i rily do love u…so much…hoping ryt tym wil cam 4 us 2 be 2gder..so i can say agen dis wrds 2u… i luv u hon…”

i was born to love, not foolin around, let’s turn it on! there must be more, to life than this.

The Law of Win/Win says, “Let’s not do it your way or my way; let’s do it the best way.”

F i ask u 2 stay wil u stay, F i kis u now will u kis me back, hope its not 2 late 4 as 2 realized wats da mining of lav, let’s fnd way b 4 we nd dis lav! can we talk b 4 we say gud bye=(
Certain ppol touch ur hart„ n u cant st0p thinking bout dem. Dats d kind of pers0n u r… Absent yet so near, simple yet worthy

honey, you matter more to me than you can imagine & much more than i’ll ever be able to explain! love u lots!

Life is what you make of it, so please stop blaming others for all the troubles that you’re having!!!

id rther go blind thn 2 c u wlk away from me id rther go deaf than to hear u say u h8 meid giv up ol thngs jus 2 b wd u cz wat dus evrythn min if i dont have u?

if i die 2nut i wish that your cute lips b the last thing i kiss ur warm hug the last thing i embrace ur face b the last thing i see your -i love you- be the last words i hear… love you so much baby.

if i die & g0 2 heaven & G0D aSk me wAts my laSt wiSh…. i’ll pAue 4 a wHile 2 luk 4 U & weN i see U cRyiNg i wUd sAy, “LORD, givE me aminute 2 hUg him…”

Maybe D day wud come dat I wud 4gt how u made me cry, Hw ud break my hart wen u lie. Bt wt I cud nver 4get s d way u lukd wykl u slept in my arms…….you look so mine……

I carry a smile wen Im broken in 2 and Im nobody w/out some1 lyk u ,Im trembling inside and my hart is calling u and yet nobody knows it but me..

u’ll never know wether you’re with the wrong person if you don’t meet the right one.
if you love and it hurts…love some more, if it still hurts…love some more… ‘til it hurts no more.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa

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

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

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm

Love has no 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

Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you’ll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook, 1949

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb

Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

Forget love - I’d rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes

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

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957

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

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1595

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

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524

Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, “Love Story,” original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark

Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds.
~Grey Livingston

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

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore

We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe

If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~Jessie B. Rittenhouse

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self

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

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~Rose Franken

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht

A bell is no bell ‘til you ring it,
A song is no song ‘til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
‘Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, “You Are Sixteen (Reprise)”
(Thanks, Krystel)

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb

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 much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader’s Digest, “Quotable Quotes,” February 2002

Love is no respecter of age or practicality
Neither morality: unabashed
She enters where she will
Unheeding that her immortal fires
Burn up human hearts…
~Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me, www.originals.net

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ~Lord Dewar

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Love burns across the infinitude. ~Meriel Stelliger

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer

‘Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. LeGuin

Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates

Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. ~Hannah Moore

The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche

Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXVI”

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois

You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from. ~Werner Erhard

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed

It would be impossible to “love” anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. ~Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943

The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ~Tom Masson

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there’s moonlight all about and there’s no moon above. ~E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song “Old Devil Moon” in the musical Finian’s Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!)

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne

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

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb

Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
~James J. Walker

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~Honoré de Balzac

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac

Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ~Author Unknown

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite’s dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. ~Francis Quarles, Emblems

Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. ~Paul-Jean Toulet

We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism

It’s hard to defeat a woman in love. ~Destin Figuier

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can’t. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day’s great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ~Nicholas de Chamfort

Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal

Loving is never a waste of time. ~Astrid Alauda

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. ~William Butler Yeats

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ~Author Unknown

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960

Love is being stupid together. ~Paul Valery

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. ~Charles Baudelaire

Open your heart and take us in,
Love - love and me.
~W.E. Henley

On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It’s never done. Never. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. ~Rita Rudner

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. ~Charles du Bos

I love you like crazy, baby
‘Cuz I’d go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre

What “love” is I don’t know if it’s not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
~Gilbert Parker

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare

Love floods us with hope. ~Jareb Teague

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee

Life only starts when love comes. ~From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932

Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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 makes time pass; time makes love pass. ~French Proverb

True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

There’s nothing more freeing than the shackles of love. ~Emma Racine deFleur

When you’re attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they’re a perfect match. ~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle

Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow

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

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood

You really shouldn’t say “I love you” unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg

Lust fades, so you’d better be with someone who can stand you. ~Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate
My sole mate ‘tis my soul mate.
~Pixie Foudre

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945

Love means nothing in tennis, but it’s everything in life. ~Author Unknown

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey

Once a man has won a woman’s love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. ~Germaine Greer

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 are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is my religion - I could die for it. ~John Keats

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~Dan Greenburg

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown

Just because somebody doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. ~Author Unknown

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ~Henry Louis Mencken

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown

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

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown

Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image… otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Author Unknown

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Julins Gordon

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Today’s Multiple Choice Thought
There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden
d. all of the above.
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

It’s so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women’s Emancipation

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore

Love isn’t blind, it’s retarded. ~Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ~Miguel de Unamuno

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne

I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~Javan

Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon (Thanks, David)

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men’s behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~Francesca M. Cancian

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi

Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922

In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Emma Racine deFleur

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw

The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. ~Edward Thomas

[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally