When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. ~Rabindranath Tagore
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer
You know you have found love when you can't find your way back. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ~Karl Menninger
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. ~Cher
Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. ~David Frost
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates
While duty measures the regard it owes
With scrupulous precision and nice justice,
Love never reasons, but profusely gives,
Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
~Hannah More
Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. ~Mother Teresa
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ~Werner Erhard
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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