“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.”
-Abraham Crowley
“So much of what we know of love we learn at home.”
-unknown
“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.”
-unknown
“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.”
-unknown
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
-Saint-Exupery
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
-Ingrid Bergman
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
-John Donne
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.”
-Joseph Conrad
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
-La Rochefoucauld
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
-Christopher Marlowe
“Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.”
-Houssaye
“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.”
-La Bruyere
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
-St. Augustine
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
-Les Miserables
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
-Alexander Smith
“When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.”
-La Rochefoucauld
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.”
-Charles Caleb Colton
“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”
-Lawrence Durrell
“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
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
-Thoreau
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
-Diogenes
“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”
-Leo F. Buscaglia
“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
-Dr. Karl Menninger
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”
-Mother Theresa
