Love

The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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 bittersweet, its up to u to make it bitter or sweet.
1721 darls

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 brings pain, And Pain brings beauty.
Leilana Lynn

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 p Kempis

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms Without the aid of the seasons.
Kahlil Gibran

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul II

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Baronne Anne Louise de Staël Staël

Love is fun but, it is not going to pay the bills.
Jessica Martin

Come, let us make love deathless.
Herbert Trench

Love and stoplights can be cruel.
Sesame Street

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
Clive Staples Lewis

I love you. I call you. I always seek you in my heart. Now that I found you, what else can I say, maybe the most painful adieu in my entire life, my beautiful, adored, consuming soul mate.
I would like to hug you, but I know I cannot touch what is above me, above my life, above this piece of breath, and I am so alien to my self.
I know you are the one that can bring me out from the alienation I am in, that you are my only truth for which I exist in this world. I also know that without you, the entire world would fall apart, but it as true that beside you, the entire world would be consumed and what remains then?
I also know that the ineffable destiny will always keep the doors opened as if there would be any meaning as long as no one can go out through them.
This is a vanity too. It is also a vanity the fact that all the opposites attract and all the things that go in the same sense reject.
Thus Good will always be attracted by Evil, and Evil by good and the good of Good will be precisely the Evil while the good of Evil what we understand through Good.
The soul mates are as the pair of Good and Evil.

Sorin Cerin

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.
Rupert Brooke

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
Libbie Fudim

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.
King Soloman

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.
Thomas Campbell

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.
Source Unknown

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

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr. Jerome Cummings

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

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
George Eliot

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
W. Somerset Maugham

I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)
Jack Handey

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
Marcel Proust

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

Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through death, expecting you…
Sorin Cerin

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.
Jalal ud-Din Rumi

My beloved is only water, which is always flowing, and doesn't deceive, which is always flowing, and doesn't change, which is always flowing, and doesn't end.
Juan Ramón Jiménes

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
Paul Bourget

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

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

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
Socrates

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
George John Whyte-Melville

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.
Gary Zukav

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

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
Germaine Greer

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Kahlil Gibran

Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions? - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)
Jack Handey

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Lyster

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan