Love

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Paradise is always where love dwells.
Jean Paul F. Richter

Love at first sight is possible, but it pays to take a second look.
Anonymous

Love is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.
Anonymous

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 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

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 Lokes

Love and stoplights can be cruel.
Sesame Street

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love is the only gold.
Lord Alfred Tennyson

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

... 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

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]
Bible

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
William Shakespeare

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy
Gordon William Allport

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 Brooks Adams

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F Scott Fitzgerald

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
Violet Trefusis

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein

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

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.
Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like nobody's watching. Submitted by Jessica Brown
Anonymous

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

I adore him… I have never been so happy. I have real love.
Princess of Wales Diana

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
John Milton

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

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Source Unknown

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
Anonymous

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We must love one another or die.
W. H. Auden

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
Bruce Friedman

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.
Christopher S. Drew

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
Source Unknown

You're nothing short of my everything.
Ralph Block

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

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

My life revolves around love.
Greg Evans

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Anne Bradstreet

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
St. Thomas Aquinas

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan

Love is stronger than violence.
Hermann Hesse

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.
Source Unknown

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.
F. Scott Fitzgerald