...a collection of quotations on matters of the heart.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Cummings, Fr. Jerome

A kiss writes what the heart dictates.
anonymous

A smile is nearly always inspired by another smile.
anonymous

Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
("Histoire amoureuse des Gaules")
Bussy-Rabutin, Comte de

Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and fearful thing!
Byron, George Gordon
Lord

As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind, so love
with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Keller, Helen

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength
while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Tzo, Lao

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
Chambless, David

First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.
Nusic, Branislav

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Dietzenbach, Amanda

How we feel is how we want to be heard.
Hofmannsthal, Hugo
von

I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Yeats, W.B.

I may not be a smart man but I know what love is.
Gump, Forrest

I have seen so many sights, heard so many words
but none as beautiful
As the sight and sound of a man and woman
Who say with their every act
Their eyes and all their being
"I LOVE YOU!"
unknown

I want to hold you in my arms, gently
Beyond sex and security, prestige and triumph,
to say once and for all, "I love you", and mean it
from the top of my head to-the-depths of my soul
This is the love that casts out fear
that makes life worth living
That takes a man and woman on the earth and lifts them finally
above every power or pain that could wound them

unknown

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
Auden, W.H.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Hesse, Herman

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I
am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the
flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is
not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps
no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is
knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears...
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest
of these is love.
I Corinthians 13 (The Bible)

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return,
they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran

If you want the rainbow,
you have to put up with a little rain!
Parton, Dolly

Immature love says:
"I love you because I need you."
Mature love says:
" I need you because I love you."
Fromm, Erich

In solitude, What happiness? Who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying,
what contentment find?
("Paradise Lost")
Milton, John

In the arithmetic of love,
one plus one equals everything,
and two minus one equals nothing.
McLaughlin, Mignon

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is
wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
Shaw, Bernard

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Mann, Thomas

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.
Wescott, Glenway

"It is within families that truth is best learned, integrity is cultivated, self-discipline is instilled, and love is nurtured."
Gordon B. Hinckley

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;--
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

She was a child and I was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
I and my Annabel Lee--
With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this is the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
Chilling my Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me:--
Yes! that is the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling
And killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of those far wiser than we--
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:--

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:
And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In her sepulcher there by the sea--
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Poe, E.A.

Journeys end in lovers meeting.
(Twelfth Night, Scene 3)
Shakespeare, William

Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten.
proverbs, English

Kissing is like drinking salted water:
you drink and your thirst increases.
proverbs, Chinese

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
Paul, The Apostle (Ephesians 4:26)

Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult.
Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.
Santos, Len

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,
Antoine de

Life is the flower
for which love is the honey.
Hugo, Victor

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone,
it has to be made, like bread,
re-made all the time, made new.
Le Guin, Ursula K.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only
with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Hepburn, Katherine

Love is a believing creature.
Ovidio

Love is a irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Frost, Robert

Love is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Dickinson, Emily

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you
will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Buscaglia, Leo

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.
Perez, Jose Marti Y

Love is broad; if you love someone, you love all things, not just
their beauty.
Love is narrow; you love one and only one, compared to them, no
one matters.
McBraxton, A

Love is friendship set on fire.
Taylor, Jeremy

Love is hard to get into, but harder to get out of.
Bawden, Sean

Love is not something you fall into, it's something you
grow.
LDS television comercial

Love is shown in your deeds, not your words.
Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Love is that condition in which the
happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Heinlein, Robert

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only
empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.
McMahon, Joe

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Picasso, Pablo

Love is the language our hearts use to speak to one another. For
you, my dear, my heart sings.
Byrd, Amanda R.

Love is the power that heals the soul and mends hearts.
Harrison, Jill

Love is unconditional. . . Relationships are not.
Gudmundson, Grant

Love is what you make it.
Unknown

Love takes time. It needs a history of giving and receiving, laughing
and crying...
Love never promises instant gratification, only ultimate fulfillment.
Love means believing in someone, in something. It supposes a
willingness to struggle, to work, to suffer, and to rejoice.
Satisfaction and ultimate fulfillment are by-products of dedicated
love. They belong only to those who can reach beyond themselves;
to whom giving is more important than receiving.
Love is doing everything you can to help others build whatever
dreams they have.
Love involves much careful and active listening. It is doing
whatever needs to be done, and saving whatever will promote the other's
happiness, security, and well-being. Sometimes, love hurts.
Love is on a constant journey to what others need. It must be
attentive, caring, and open, both to what others say and to what others
cannot say...
Love says no with empathy and great compassion.
Love is firm, but when needed it must be tender.
When others have tried and failed, love is the hand in yours in your
moments of discouragement and disappointment.
Love is reliable.
Love is a choice and commitment to others' true and lasting
happiness.
It is dedicated to growth and fulfillment. Love is not selfish.
Love sometimes fails for lack of wisdom or abundance of weakness,
but it forgives, knowing the intentions are good.
Love does not attach conditions....Genuine love is always a free gift.
Love realizes and accepts that there will be disagreements and
disturbing emotions...There may be times when miles lay between, but love is a
commitment. It believes and endures things.
Love encourages freedom of self. Love shares positives and
negatives reactions to warm and cold feelings.
Love, intimate love, will never reject others. It is the first to
encourage and the last to condemn.
Love is a commitment to growth, happiness, and fulfillment of one
another.
Upham, Barb

Love will find a way through paths
where wolves fear to prey.
Byron, George Gordon
Lord

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those
who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that
robs the joy from life.
Shain, Merle

Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.
Abbad, Ibn

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Dickens, Charles

Night Light

Searching in the dark Im lost with out your touch, The day comes
but the sun never shines. It's a dream yet the candle slowly grows small, I
need the net of your love to catch me when I fall.
Rygiel, Stephen

" One breath of her hair.
One touch of her skin.
One kiss of her lips.
It was worth more than a lifetime without it.
One."
--- Seth (Nicolas Cage) from City of Angels

Patience with others is Love,
Patience with self is Hope,
Patience with God is Faith.
Bestavros, Adel

The Eskimo has fifty two names for snow because it is important to
them, there ought to be as many for love.
Atwood, Margaret

The first duty of love is to listen.
Tillich, Paul

The love of money is the root of all evil.
Paul, The Apostle (I Timothy 6:10)

The most happy marriage I can imagine... would be the union of a
deaf man to a blind woman.
Coleridge, S. T.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing
-- and then marry him.
Cher

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Chesterton, G.K.

The world is wonderful
and beautiful
and good beyond
one's wildest imagination.
Never, never, never could
one conceive what love is,
beforehand, never.
Life can be great-quite god-like.
It can be so.
God be thanked I have proved it.
Lawrence, D.H.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it.
unknown

Those who live for love live well
Weigh, A.

Time wounds all heels.
Ace, Jane

To be able to say how much
you love is to love but little.
Petrach

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply
awful.
Myerson, Bess

To fall in LOVE, is to rise. . . .
Upendra

To fear love is to fear life.
Russell, Bertrand

To handle yourself, use your head;
to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Viscott, David

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Sunde, Karen

To love without expected return on my investment frees me to love
with purity of heart, mind and soul...I am not distracted by selfish
motive or disappointed by insensitivity.... I am free to love... just
love.
Hodge, L.

  To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
Author Unknown

True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they've
gotta match.
anonymous

Truly love you endlessly.
Every day without you is like a book without pages.
I love you, I will always do, for the rest of our earthly and heavenly
life.
Abahusain, F

Two hearts
are stronger than three,
but only if you
instill yours inside
of me.
Free, Matthew K

War can't kill love. Love can kill war.
Lagerberg, Helene

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly
embracing each other.
De Crescenzo, Liciano

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
Valery, Paul

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Von Goethe, Johann
Wolfgang

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognize
our qualities.
Maurois, Andre

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you
in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith,
and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ....
Paul, The Apostle to the Thessalonians, Ch 1, v. 2-3

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults.
When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
Cameron, Elizabeth

Where there is love there is life.
Gandhi, Mahatma

Where we love is home,
home that our feet may leave,
but not our hearts.
Holmes, Oliver
Wendell

[He] who travels for love finds
a thousand miles not longer than one.
proverbs, Japanese

Wild Nights! Wild Nights! were I with thee-
Wild Nights would be our luxury--

Futile the winds to a heart in port,
Gone with the compass--
Gone with the chart--

Rowing in Eden..Ah the Sea!
Might I but moor--
Tonight in thee
Dickinson, Emily

Without love, the world itself would not survive.
Vega, Lope de

You are my love, my life ... my world.
Lozada, Michelle

You complete me.
Maguire, Jerry

'You don't know, or maybe you do,' said Hal, 'how wonderful a
feeling it give you when you know somebody love you and that's
just the way it is. You can be good, you can be a devil, and still that
somebody love you. You can be weak, you can be strong. You can
know a heap, you can know nothing. That kind of love, when you think
about it, just seems like some kind of puzzle, and you can spend a lifetime
trying to figure it out.'
("The Temple of My Familiar")
Walker, Alice

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful,
but she is beautiful because you love her.
unknown

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields
into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't
laugh if you trip.
Carroll, Jonathan

You want to know
how great my love is?
Count the waves.
unknown



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