Absence is to love
what wind is to fire;
it extinguishes the small,
it enkindles the great.
Dorothy Darker
Love is blind
and marriage is the institution for the blind.
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
Comte Debussy – Rabutin
Gravitation can not be held responsible
for people falling in love.
Victor M. Garcia Jr
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
Albert Einstein
In a great romance,
each person plays a part
the other really likes.
Robert Frost
Love is an ideal thing,
marriage a real thing,
a confusion of the real with the ideal
never goes unpunished.
Elizabeth Ashley
To love is to admire with the heart;
to admire is to love with the mind.
Goethe
Truly loving another means
letting go of all expectations.
It means full acceptance, even celebration
Of another’s personhood.
Theophile Gantier
Don’t walk in front of me,
I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me,
I may not lead.
Just walk beside me
And be my love forever.
Unknown
“Love is the triumph of
imagination over intelligence.”
Robert Browning
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
Don Byas
Hopeless romantics are only hopeless
in the eyes of those who
don’t believe in romance.
William Shakespeare
“No love, no friendship
can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.”
Jean Zheng
“If you judge people,
you have no time to love them.”
Francois Mauriac
“Age does not protect you from love
but love, to some extent,
protects you from age.”
Mother Teresa
“He doesn’t love me because
I am beautiful,
I am beautiful because
He loves me.”
Jeanne Moreau
“Love is like Roller Coaster,
once you have completed the ride,
you want to go again.”
Julie Andrews
“Love doesn’t make the world go round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Winnie the Pooh
“A heart filled with love
is never heavy.”
Franklin P. Jones
“The love we give away
is the only love we keep.”
Lucy Van Pelt
“Where there is great love,
there are always wishes.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause
the birth of love.”
Willa Cather
“Once you’ve felt love,
you’ll know it’s love
because you don’t want to let it go.”
Stendhal
“If you love something, set it free’
if it comes back it’s yours.
If it doesn’t
It never was.”
Jean Zheng
“You never lose by loving.
You always lose by holding back.”
Richard Bach
“It is better to have loved and lost,
than never to have loved at all.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Being deeply loved
by someone
gives you strength;
loving someone deeply
gives you courage.”
A. Tennyson
“If you have it [LOVE],
you don’t need to have anything else,
and if you don’t have it,
it doesn’t matter much what else you have.”
Iao – Tzu
“Many a man
in love with a dimple
makes the mistake
of marrying the whole girl.”
Sir James M. Barrie
“Anyone
can be passionate,
but it takes real lovers
to be silly.”
Stephen Leacock
“In love the paradox occurs that
two beings become one
and yet remain two.”
Rose Franken
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
Erich Fromm
“Love is like a violin.
The music may stop now and then,
But the strings remain forever.”
Nikki Giovani
“If I had a single flower for every time
I think about you, I could walk forever
In my garden.”
Unknown
“To love and win is the best thing,
To love and loose, the next best.”
Claudia Ghandi
“In dream and in love,
there are no impossibilities.”
William M. Thackeray
“At the touch of love
everyone becomes a poet.”
Janos Arany
“Within you I lose myself.
Without you I find myself
Wanting to become lost again.”
Plato
“No man is worth your tears
and the one who is won’t make you cry.”
Unknown
“From success you get a lot of things,
but not that great inside thing
that love brings you.”
Anon
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand,
Leave the fingers open and it stays
