"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I."
- Unknown
"We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, and hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives."
- Unknown
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'"
- John Greenleaf Whittier
"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships--the ones that last-- are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is...suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."
- Dana Scully (The X-Files)
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
- Mother Teresa
"Love is not what we become, but what we already are."
- Stephen Levine
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
- Iris Murdoch
" If love is a sin, punish me by kisses. And if love is a crime, I wanna be your victim."
- Julie
"Love doesn't sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: re-made all the time, made new."
- Ursula K. LeGuin
"Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, And finds in your presence that life is worth while, So when you are lonely, remember it's true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you."
- Unknown
"There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you."
- Ashleigh Brilliant
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
- Mignon McLaughlin
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
- Kahlil Gibran
"The first duty of love is to listen."
- Unknown
"The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart."
- Unknown
"It is never too late to fall in love."
- Anonymous
"Respect is love in plain clothes."
- Unknown
"Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter."
- T.S. Eliot
"A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one."
- Guy de Maupassant
"I'm so afraid to feel nothing so I feel everything."
- Unknown
"It's not that I can't live without you...it's just that I don't even want to try."
- Unknown
"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
- Julius Gordon
"Love is when the woman of your dreams becomes a reality and sleep stops being a priority."
- Unknown
"For hearing my thoughts, understanding my dreams and being my best friend... For filling my life with joy and loving me without end...I do."
- Unknown
"True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."
- Unknown
"Countless words, nor countless actions could ever define my feelings for you. True love defies definition."
- Unknown
"Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned."
- Unknown
"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Things we do, we do for ourselves. But that which we love we have no choice but to give away."
- Edmond Medina
"Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love."
- Charlie Brown
"Thank you for nothing."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"All for love, and nothing for reward."
- Edmund Spenser
"What's meant to be will always find a way."
- Trisha Yearwood
"And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free."
- Lew Brown & Buddy De Sylva
"A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."
- Unknown
"The heart has it's reasons that reason does not know."
- Pascal
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."
- Disraeli
"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."
- Theophile Gautier
"Let your heart guide you...but listen closely because it whispers" - Land Before Time
"It is better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
"Love is friendship, friendship is love. If love fails, friendship should remain. For friendship is the foundation of love"
- Unknown
"You don't get to choose, you just fall."
- Unknown
"But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning."
- Unknown
"The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance."
- Unknown
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
- Alexander Smith
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
-La Rochefoucauld
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
- Stendhal
"Love is . . . born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation."
- Unknown
"What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love."
- Robert Herrick
"To be loved, be lovable."
- Unknown
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
- Shakespeare
"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."
- Karen Casey
"Love is temporary...but friends are forever."
- Kelly Wheeler
"An immature love says I love you because I need you, but a mature love says I need you because I love you."
- Unknown
