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Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer,
sex raises some pretty good questions. ~~Woody Allen~~
Love is the beauty of a soul. ~~St. Augustine~~
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the
people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with
all your heart.
~~Marcus Aurelius~~
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by
removal of the patient from the influences under which he
incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more
frequently to the physician than to the patient.
~~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911~~
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting
of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
~~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911~~
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: Thus mellow'd to that tender light,
Which heaven and gaudy day denies. ~~Lord Byron~~
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~~
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling
in love.
~~Albert Einstein~~
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
~~George Eliot~~
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 fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming
self-respect and it's these things I'd believe in even if the
whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she
should be...I love her and that's the beginning of everything.
~~F. Scott Fitzgerald~~
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be
silly.
~~Rose Franken~~
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature
love says: "I need you because I love you." ~~Erich Fromm~~
I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave,
from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
~~Benito Perez Galdos~~
We love because it's the only true adventure.
~~Nikki Giovanni~~
We look forward to the time when the power of love will
replace the love of power. Then will our world know the
blessings of peace.
~~William Gladstone~~
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat
as one.
~~Fredrich Halm~~
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two
people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife,
confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
~~Homer, Odyssey, ninth century B.C.~~
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
~~Victor Hugo~~
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen
or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~~Helen Keller~~
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which
rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation
of such a method is love.
~~Martin Luther King, Jr.~~
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and
without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and
enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ~~D. H. Lawrence~~
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen
by others.
~~André Maurois~~
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
~~H. L. Mencken~~
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~~
Yes, I now feel that it was then on the evening of sweet
dreams - that the very first dawn of human love bust upon the
icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen
nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of
anxiety...For years your name never passed my lips, while my
soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered
in my presence respecting you. ~~Edgar Allan Poe~~
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who
really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
~~Rainer Maria Rilke~~
My heart is ever at your service. ~~William Shakespeare~~
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And
therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream~~
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
~~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth~~
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
that word is love.
~~Sophocles~~
The loving are the daring ~~Bayard Taylor~~
Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have
loved at all.
~~Alfred, Lord Tennyson~~
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts,
then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~~Mother Teresa~~
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by
someone deeply gives you courage. ~~Lao Tzu~~
The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with
a gaze
~~Unknown~~
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which
becomes a habit. ~~Peter Ustinov~~
Who, being loved, is poor? ~~Oscar Wilde~~
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