LOVE quotes

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.
George Sand
1804-1876, French Novelist


What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian


"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."
Dr Seuss


Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic


The best thing about me is you.
Shannon Crown


Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis


If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.
Anonymous



You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen


To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Heather Cortez


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller


"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine



Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones


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
1942-, American Author


Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author


Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.
Curtis Judalet


Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist


Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Karr


How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer


Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer


Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... 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.
Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer


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
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer


to love someone is nothing, to beloved by someone is something, to be loved by someone you loved is everything =]