=Collected Quotes=

Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather ~ * * If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. ~ Charles Caleb Colton ~ Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. ~ Woody Allen ~ When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ~ Elizabeth Bowen ~ The hottest love has the coldest end. ~ Socrates ~ Love is when you miss him even before he's gone, When you could listen to him talk all night And never get tired of hearing his voice, When the sound of his name sends chills down your spine, And when you see his smile the second you close your eyes! ~ Adriene Auckerman ~ The thing about falling in love, is that if you do it right, you never have to hit the ground. ~ Kendall Lepitzki ~ Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot. ~ Rusty Silvey ~ The word forever seems like a long time, but if you're with the person you love then forever isn't long enough. ~ Daniel Martinez ~ Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ~ Edmond and Jules de Goncourt ~ Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ~ Martin Luther ~ I light a candle every night Sending wishes to my angels above Keep him safe this man I love Watch over him and show your light Let him know As I close my eyes to sleep I am in his arms as I dream ~ Sandra Gibbs ~ Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy, an eternity of gorgeous moments.

~ Sarah Montgomery ~ Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down. Love is watchful and sleeping, slumbereth not. Though weary, it is not tired; though pressed, it is not straitened; though alarmed, it is not confounded... ~ Thomas A. Kempis ~ My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ~ Winston Churchill ~ We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. ~ John Lennon ~ Love transcends the world and those in it, for it is sparked in the soul and that can never be lost. ~ Jacob Labossiere ~ Love is a smoke made 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 ~ True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~ Erich Segal ~ Finding love is like finding one answer to all of your prayers. ~ Jennifer Regimbald ~ Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones ~ Love means the warmth of the sun, the aroma of a rose, the breeze of the sea, but as you can see it never means the same for anyone. Love acquires its true meaning by experiencing it for the first time because only then can you define it. ~ Nestor Gallardo ~ Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~ Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. ~ Rita Rudner ~ There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ~ George Sand ~ The best things in life can never be kept; They must be given away. A Smile, a Kiss, and Love ~ Tony Farrar ~ Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this. ~ Stephen Packer ~ Loveistheemblemofeternitybritconfoundsallnotionsoftimebreffacesallmemoryofbeginningbrallfearofane ndbrMadamedeStael Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~ Robert Frost ~ We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together. ~ Brian Andres ~ Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us. ~ Marianne Williamson ~ The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ~ Helen Hayes ~ Love is not needing a snooze button on your alarm clock because when it goes off the first time in the morning the thoughts of your loved one make it impossible to fall back asleep. ~ Natasha Harris ~ 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 ~ Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~ Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything... ~ Raul and Samantha Juarez ~ To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the wedding cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. ~ Ogden Nash ~ Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less. ~ Will Moss ~ We are most alive when we are in love. ~ John Updike ~ The mountains are capped with snow of white The fires are lit, the cabins are bright Two lovers sit, not alone tonight Their hearts are warm on this cold winter night Outside the snow falls to the ground But no one will know, it won't make a sound ~ Cody Schroeder ~ YouknowyouvefoundlovewhenyoulookintheireyesandfindyourselfMoniquePatton There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful. ~ Daniel Monroe Tuttle ~ You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Anonymous ~ The sweet, rustic smell of the rain, Fills my nose, my head, and my brain. The springtime showers soak my dress, and toes tingle with a grassy caress. The beauty of this day is lost to me, As the deaf man hears not the melody. For all Nature's wonders seem so dim, When I am here, standing next to him. ~ Valerie Dawn Keller ~ The best proof of love is trust. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers ~ Like a child's infinite dreams, is the endlessness of love. ~ Renee Tripp ~ Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful. ~ Stacie Cunningham ~ Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle. ~ Crystal Middlemas ~ Love is something you can't describe

like the look of a rose, the smell of the rain, or the feeling of forever. ~ Kristen Kappel ~ The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~ G.K. Chesterton ~ If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. ~ Robertson Davies ~ We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love: first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. ~ Albert Camus ~ Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ Augustine of Hippo ~ I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. ~ Roy Croft ~ Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. ~ Julia Cameron ~ When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others. ~ Julia Cameron ~ Love has no other 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 ~ Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters. ~ William Curry ~ Love is a moment that lasts forever... ~ Julie Wittey ~ Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~ In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. ~ Marc Chagall ~ I got love,

I got so much love, love in my heart, and this feeling I can't let it go. ~ Jonny 'Itch' Fox ~ Love is the flower you've got to let grow. ~ John Lennon ~ Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts. ~ John Dryden ~ Love is like a mustard seed; planted by God and watered by men. ~ Muda Saint Michael ~ Real love is feeling like being a part of that person's life almost isn't enough. It's more like a feeling that you would live in the same skin with them if you could and share every thought, heart beat, and emotion as one. ~ Rod Cannon ~ Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. ~ Amy Bloom ~ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~ Voltaire ~ We have common cause against the night... Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear the music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokecherry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain... We love what we know, we love what we are. Common cause, common cause, common cause of mouth, eye, ear, tongue, hand, nose, flesh, heart, and soul. ~ Ray Bradbury ~ Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~ Aristotle ~ Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. ~ Ambrose Bierce ~ You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world. ~ David Levesque ~ Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~ Mark Overby ~

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ You know you've found love when you look in their eyes and find yourself. ~ Monique Patton ~ I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other. ~ Jamie Foxx ~ Love that is true never grows old. ~ Elben Bano ~ Down by the sally gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the sally gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. ~ William Butler Yeats ~ Love is like a gentle breeze that cascades through your entire being, filling every fiber with emotion so deep your heart grows wings. ~ Kristalee Berry ~ I love love I love being in love I don't care what it does to me ~ The Format ~ Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. ~ Bette Davis ~ Affection is the broadest basis of a good life. ~ George Eliot ~ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato ~ Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral. ~ Buckminster Fuller ~ They do not love that do not show their love. ~ William Shakespeare ~ The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ Eden Ahbez ~ Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. ~ Helen Rowland ~ Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. ~ W. H. Auden ~ Love is more than a feeling; it's a state of mind.

~ Lisa Grude ~ Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding. ~ Dinah Craik ~ Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, But somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~ Kay Knudsen ~ The bond of two peoples love cannot be broken, Bend it, twist it, do what you will with it; If it is true love then the sun will rise another day. ~ Cody Heller ~ Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be. ~ Khalil Gibran ~ The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in. ~ Anonymous ~ Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. ~ Mother Theresa ~ The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy. ~ Richard Bach ~ To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. ~ Bill Wilson ~ Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more? ~ Celine ~ A great love is a lot like a good memory. When it's there, and you know it's there, but it's just outta your reach, it can be all that you think about. And you can focus on it and try to force it, but the more you do, the more you seem to push it away. But if you're patient, and you hold still, well maybe, just maybe, it'll come to you. ~ Leonard Church ~ The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. ~ Buckminster Fuller ~ Love reminds you that nothing else matters. ~ Amy Bushell ~ The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~ Margaret Atwood ~ Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~ Eva Gabor ~ Love is the emblem of eternity;

it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staal ~ You don't marry someone you can live with you marry the person who you cannot live without. ~ Anonymous ~ For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ Eleanor Farjeon ~ Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake. ~ Jon Anderson ~ Love is when you look into someone's eyes and see their heart. ~ Jill Petty ~ Love means never having to say you're sorry. ~ Oliver Barrett IV ~ When I look into your eyes, it's like falling in love all over again. ~ Amanda Arco ~ Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth. ~ Ben Oliver ~ All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us. ~ Kevin Arnold ~ He has not known life, he who has not known love; and his destiny he is yet to find. ~ Phumza Mafela ~ You can't be wise and in love at the same time. ~ Bob Dylan ~ True love is your soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another. ~ John Beckwith ~ I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. ~ John Forbes Nash ~ Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. ~ Diane Ackerman ~ Love is smiling on the inside and out. ~ Jennifer Williams ~

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. ~ Augustine of Hippo ~