“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” -Willa Sibert Cather (born Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947))
“You don’t have to be perfect to be worth loving.” -Harold S. Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))
Book of Love
If I could read you like a book,
And if I chanced to steal a look,
I wonder if I’d find that you
Were just as faithful, and as true
In chapter four, page sixty-seven
As you were on page eleven?
by Author Unknown
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” -Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991))
Melissa: Do you love me with all your heart?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Do you think I am the most beautiful woman in the world?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Am I the only one for you?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Oh, you say the most wonderful things!
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein (Robert Anson Heinlien (1907 - 1988)): “Jubal Harshaw” (1961)
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Venus and Adonis” (1593), line 821; type of work: narrative poem
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Olive.
Olive, who?
Olive you!
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“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1595 - 1596), Act I, scene i, line 140; words of fictional character Lysander
“The course of true love . . . gathers no moss.” -Author Unknown: “The Philadelphia Story,” character Margaret Lord speaking to character Macaulay Connor
“Love is a verb.” -Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987)
“The heart that loves is always young.” -Author Unknown
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“Love is the reward of love.” -Johann Friedrich von Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805))
“Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
“Love is never without some thorns.” -Author Unknown
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“No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.” -Author Unknown
“You don’t have to be perfect to be worth loving.” -Harold S. Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))
Book of Love
If I could read you like a book,
And if I chanced to steal a look,
I wonder if I’d find that you
Were just as faithful, and as true
In chapter four, page sixty-seven
As you were on page eleven?
by Author Unknown
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” -Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991))
Melissa: Do you love me with all your heart?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Do you think I am the most beautiful woman in the world?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Am I the only one for you?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Oh, you say the most wonderful things!
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein (Robert Anson Heinlien (1907 - 1988)): “Jubal Harshaw” (1961)
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Venus and Adonis” (1593), line 821; type of work: narrative poem
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Olive.
Olive, who?
Olive you!
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“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1595 - 1596), Act I, scene i, line 140; words of fictional character Lysander
“The course of true love . . . gathers no moss.” -Author Unknown: “The Philadelphia Story,” character Margaret Lord speaking to character Macaulay Connor
“Love is a verb.” -Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987)
“The heart that loves is always young.” -Author Unknown
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“Love is the reward of love.” -Johann Friedrich von Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805))
“Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
“Love is never without some thorns.” -Author Unknown
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“No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.” -Author Unknown
Perfect Love
They walked in the lane together,
The sky was covered with stars;
They reached the gate in silence,
He lifted down the bars.
She neither smiled nor thanked him,
Because she knew not how;
For he was a farmer’s son,
And she, a Jersey cow.
by Author Unknown
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They walked in the lane together,
The sky was covered with stars;
They reached the gate in silence,
He lifted down the bars.
She neither smiled nor thanked him,
Because she knew not how;
For he was a farmer’s son,
And she, a Jersey cow.
by Author Unknown
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“To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996)): “How to Live with Another Person” (1974)
“Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that the person will love you back. Do not expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it does not, be content it grew in yours.” -Author Unknown
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“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.” -Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)
“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)
“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” -Euripides (about 480 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Orestes” (408 B.C.E.), line 298, as translated by William Arrowsmith
“To be loved, be lovable.” [translation to English]
“Ut ameris, amabilis esto.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Ars Amatoria” (English: “The Art of Love”), Book II, line 107
“We miss so much out of life if we don’t love. The more we love the richer life is - even if it is only some little furry or feathery pet.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Rainbow Valley” (1919), Chapter 20
“Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that the person will love you back. Do not expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it does not, be content it grew in yours.” -Author Unknown
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“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.” -Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)
“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)
“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” -Euripides (about 480 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Orestes” (408 B.C.E.), line 298, as translated by William Arrowsmith
“To be loved, be lovable.” [translation to English]
“Ut ameris, amabilis esto.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Ars Amatoria” (English: “The Art of Love”), Book II, line 107
“We miss so much out of life if we don’t love. The more we love the richer life is - even if it is only some little furry or feathery pet.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Rainbow Valley” (1919), Chapter 20
Lovebirds are small parrots. The male and female birds are identical in plumage, or feather color and pattern, and they are monogamous, being faithful for life to just one other bird. The word ‘lovebirds’ is commonly generalized to any pair of small birds, as well as humans . . . because, as it turns out, love isn’t just for the birds . . .
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“What we love, we shall grow to resemble.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” -Haruki Murakami (born 1949) at https://www.harukimurakami.com/
“All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.” -Julie Andrews
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“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” -Erich Segal
“The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.” -Maria V. Snyder (born 1973)
“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” -Pearl Bailey (Pearl Mae Bailey (1918 - 1990)): as quoted in “Weekly World News” (25 April 2005)
“We don’t love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.” -Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973)
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
“Love is metaphysical gravity.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” -Elizabeth Bowen (Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (1899 - 1973))
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“I think . . . if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
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“What we love, we shall grow to resemble.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” -Haruki Murakami (born 1949) at https://www.harukimurakami.com/
“All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.” -Julie Andrews
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“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” -Erich Segal
“The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.” -Maria V. Snyder (born 1973)
“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” -Pearl Bailey (Pearl Mae Bailey (1918 - 1990)): as quoted in “Weekly World News” (25 April 2005)
“We don’t love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.” -Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973)
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
“Love is metaphysical gravity.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” -Elizabeth Bowen (Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (1899 - 1973))
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“I think . . . if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
Together
Because we do
All things together
All things improve,
Even weather.
Our daily meat
And bread taste better,
Trees are greener,
Rain is wetter.
by Paul Engle (1908 - 1991)
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Because we do
All things together
All things improve,
Even weather.
Our daily meat
And bread taste better,
Trees are greener,
Rain is wetter.
by Paul Engle (1908 - 1991)
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People have made a silly pastime of holding a daisy and plucking off its petals while saying, “He loves me, he loves me not,” or “She loves me, she loves me not.” Supposedly, the last petal has the answer - but how would a flower know?
“Just because someone does not love you the way you want him or her to, does not mean they do not love you with everything they have got.” -Author Unknown
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“The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
Treasure the love you receive above all,
It will survive long after,
Your gold and good health have vanished.
-Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s love that makes the world go ’round.” -W. S. Gilbert (William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911))
Jared: How do you mend a broken heart?
Annie: With ticker tape.
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849): “Annabel Lee”; type of work: poem
“He was happy and unhappy all at once. He was in love.” -Petra Mathers: “Victor and Christabel” (1993)
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“Whoever loves much, does much.” -Thomas à Kempis (meaning Thomas of Kempen (born Thomas Hammerken (about 1379 - 1471))): “Of the Imitation of Christ” (1418), Book I, chapter xv
“Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love, because a heart can break, but a circle goes on forever.” -Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 - 1987))
“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
“Hearts are wild creatures. That’s why our ribs are cages.” -Author Unknown
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“We are most alive when we’re in love.” -John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
“Just because someone does not love you the way you want him or her to, does not mean they do not love you with everything they have got.” -Author Unknown
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“The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
Treasure the love you receive above all,
It will survive long after,
Your gold and good health have vanished.
-Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s love that makes the world go ’round.” -W. S. Gilbert (William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911))
Jared: How do you mend a broken heart?
Annie: With ticker tape.
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849): “Annabel Lee”; type of work: poem
“He was happy and unhappy all at once. He was in love.” -Petra Mathers: “Victor and Christabel” (1993)
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“Whoever loves much, does much.” -Thomas à Kempis (meaning Thomas of Kempen (born Thomas Hammerken (about 1379 - 1471))): “Of the Imitation of Christ” (1418), Book I, chapter xv
“Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love, because a heart can break, but a circle goes on forever.” -Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 - 1987))
“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
“Hearts are wild creatures. That’s why our ribs are cages.” -Author Unknown
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“We are most alive when we’re in love.” -John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” -Paul of Tarsus: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘First Corinthians,’ chapter 13, verses 4 through 8
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861): “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (1850)
“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 (Ruth Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Davis (1908 - 1989)): “The Lonely Life” (1962), chapter 19
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“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 (Helen Hayes MacArthur (born Helen Hayes Brown (1900 - 1993)))
Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay.
Love isn’t love until you give it away.
-Michael W. Smith
“What power has love but forgiveness?” -William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
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“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” -Bess Myerson (1924 - 2014)
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” -Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, also known as Madame de Staël (1766 - 1817)): “Corinne” (1807), Book 8, Chapter 2
Do you love me?
Or do you not?
You told me once,
But I forgot.
-Elena Helms
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“Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying the ‘me’.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
“Love one another.” -Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘John,’ chapter 13, verses 34 and 35
“I’m bananas for you - let’s never split!” -Author Unknown
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“I love you right up to the Moon - and back.” -Sam McBratney: “Guess How Much I Love You” (1994)
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald (born Zelda Sayre (1900 - 1948))
I Love You!
I love you, I love you,
I love you, I do.
But don’t get excited -
I love monkeys, too!
by Author Unknown
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - 347 B.C.E.): “The Symposium”
“If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.” -Author Unknown
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“Perfect love casts out fear.” -Uell Stanley Andersen (1917 - 1986)
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” -Nicholas Sparks
“True love isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially - even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it.” -William R. Mattox, Junior
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“To acquire love, fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.” -Charles Haanel (1866 - 1949)
“We can only learn to love by loving.” -Iris Murdoch (Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch (1919 - 1999))
“Who ever loved that lov’d* not at first sight?” -Christopher Marlowe (Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe (1564 - 1593)): “Hero and Leander,” ‘First Sestiad,’ line 176
*love’d: loved
“Love at first sight is a great time saver.” -Author Unknown
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“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi (13th century): as quoted in Helen Schucman: “A Course in Miracles” (1976), Chapter 16: ‘The Forgiveness of Illusions, page 162
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -Sam Keen (born 1931)
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“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.” -Viktor Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997)): “Man’s Search for Meaning” (1946)
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“Love is by far the most important thing of all.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com/
“The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer . . . be happier . . . grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): “Lady Holland’s Memoir” (1855), ‘Of Friendship’
I loved you yesterday,
I love you still -
I always have,
I always will.
-Author Unknown
“Real love stories never have endings.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))
“Do all things with love.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” -eden ahbez (George Alexander Aberle (1908 - 1995)): “Nature Boy” (1948) song
This is MFOL! . . . where LMLML! . . . Levity Makes Life More Livable!
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861): “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (1850)
“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 (Ruth Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Davis (1908 - 1989)): “The Lonely Life” (1962), chapter 19
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“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 (Helen Hayes MacArthur (born Helen Hayes Brown (1900 - 1993)))
Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay.
Love isn’t love until you give it away.
-Michael W. Smith
“What power has love but forgiveness?” -William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
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“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” -Bess Myerson (1924 - 2014)
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” -Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, also known as Madame de Staël (1766 - 1817)): “Corinne” (1807), Book 8, Chapter 2
Do you love me?
Or do you not?
You told me once,
But I forgot.
-Elena Helms
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“Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying the ‘me’.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
“Love one another.” -Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘John,’ chapter 13, verses 34 and 35
“I’m bananas for you - let’s never split!” -Author Unknown
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“I love you right up to the Moon - and back.” -Sam McBratney: “Guess How Much I Love You” (1994)
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald (born Zelda Sayre (1900 - 1948))
I Love You!
I love you, I love you,
I love you, I do.
But don’t get excited -
I love monkeys, too!
by Author Unknown
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - 347 B.C.E.): “The Symposium”
“If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.” -Author Unknown
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“Perfect love casts out fear.” -Uell Stanley Andersen (1917 - 1986)
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” -Nicholas Sparks
“True love isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially - even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it.” -William R. Mattox, Junior
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“To acquire love, fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.” -Charles Haanel (1866 - 1949)
“We can only learn to love by loving.” -Iris Murdoch (Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch (1919 - 1999))
“Who ever loved that lov’d* not at first sight?” -Christopher Marlowe (Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe (1564 - 1593)): “Hero and Leander,” ‘First Sestiad,’ line 176
*love’d: loved
“Love at first sight is a great time saver.” -Author Unknown
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“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi (13th century): as quoted in Helen Schucman: “A Course in Miracles” (1976), Chapter 16: ‘The Forgiveness of Illusions, page 162
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -Sam Keen (born 1931)
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“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.” -Viktor Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997)): “Man’s Search for Meaning” (1946)
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“Love is by far the most important thing of all.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com/
“The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer . . . be happier . . . grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): “Lady Holland’s Memoir” (1855), ‘Of Friendship’
I loved you yesterday,
I love you still -
I always have,
I always will.
-Author Unknown
“Real love stories never have endings.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))
“Do all things with love.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” -eden ahbez (George Alexander Aberle (1908 - 1995)): “Nature Boy” (1948) song
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