QUOTES FROM THE

HEART

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

(1825-1878) American writer

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

(1804-1876) French writer

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

(1884-1962) American first lady

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

(1631-1700)

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it...and the journey is always towards the other soul...

D.H. Lawrence

(1885-1930) English writer

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived and loved.

Johann vonSchiller

(1759-1805) German poet

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

(1910-1987) French playwright

Give all to love, obey thy heart....

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803-1882) American poet

In many ways doth the full heart reveal the presence of love it would conceal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1772-1824)

Love and the gentle heart are but a single thing.

Dante Alighieri

(12-65-1321)

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

(1880-1956) American writer

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love...

Henry David Thoreau

(1817-1862)

The best proof of love is trust.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

(b. 1928) American writer and lecturer

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 impossiblility of separation!

Jose Marti Y Perez

(1853-1895) Cuban writer

To fear love is to fear life...

Bertrand Russell

(1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

G.K. Chesterton

(1874-1936) English writer

Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal brooks, with silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

(1572-1631) English poet

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her for ever.

Robert Burns

(1759-1796) Scottish poet

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides

(480-405 B.C.) Greek playwright

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard deChardin

(1881-1955) French philosopher

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Madame Swetchine

(1782-1857) Russian born French writer

To Love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

(b.1942) American actor-playwright

We love the things we love for what they are.

Robert Frost

(1874-1963) American poet

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Indian proverb

Love conquers all things...

Virgil

(70-19 B.C.) Roman poet

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, for it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

Love lies in the soul alone, Not in the body, and like wine should stimulate our better self to welcome gifts of Love Devine.

Those whom Love has not chosen as followers do not hear when Love calls.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

Love that comes between the naivete and awakening of youth satisfies itself with possessing, and grows with embraces. But Love which is born in the firmament's lap and has descended with the night's secrets is not contented with anything but Eternity and immortality; it does not stand reverently before anything except deity.

If humanity were to lead loves's cavalcade to a bed of faithless motive, then love there would decline to abide. Love is a beautiful bird, begging capture, but refusing injury.

Love, when sought out, is an ailment between the flesh and the bone, and only when youth has passed does the pain bring rich and sorrowful knowledge.

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Kahlil Gibran

(1883-1931) Poet, philosopher, painter, writer

There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love-the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(1807-1882) American poet

When two souls, which have sought each other for however long in the throng, have finally found each other, when they have seen that they are matched, are in sympathy and compatible, in a word, that they are alike, there is then established for ever between them a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are, a union which begins on earth and continues for ever in heaven. This union is love, true love, such as in truth very few men can conceive of, that love which is a religion, which deifies the loved one, whose love comes from devotion and passion, and for which the greatest sacrifices are the sweetest delights.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Victor Hugo

(1802-1885) French writer

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Elizabeth Van Arnim

(1866-1941)

Submit to love and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.

Leos Janacek

(1854-1928)

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

Plato

(427-347 B.C.)

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

Leo Buscaglia

From "Love"

[Love is] something like the clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Annie Sullivan

(1866-1936)

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde

(1856-1900) English writer

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility...It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down. Love is watchful and sleeping, slumbereth not. Though weary, it is not tired; though pressed, it is not straitened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but, as a lively flame and burning torch, it forces its way upwards and securely passes all.

Thomas A. Kempis

(1379-1471)

I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like the truth.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. Across the barriers of time and the ultimate destiny, love persists, for the home of the beloved, absent or present, is always in the mind and heart. Absence does not diminish love.

Mary Parrish

The need to surrender is one of the great paradoxes of love. Surrender may seem like giving up. Or giving in. But in reality we are stengthened when we actively choose to make ourselves vulnerable. We are empowered by sharing our deepest self with another person, offering him or her our heart, our soul, our life. Surrender is an act of free will. A sacred trust.

Ellen Sue Stern

...In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's pallette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Marc Chagall

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth-with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light extinguished.

Frank P. Tebbetts

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

(1872-1970)

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Soren Kierkegaard

(1813-1855)

We are the dupes of myth when we upbraid ourselves because we love; for we are made for loving: all the sweets of living are for those that love. Be joyful, unafraid!

Omar Khayyam

"The Rubaiyat"

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps... perhaps... love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

L.M. Montgomery

(1874-1942) "Anne of Avonlea"

...I never see beauty without thinking of you or scent happiness without thinking of you. You have fulfilled all my ambition, realized all my hopes, made all my dreams come true. You have set a crown of roses on my youth and fortified me against the disaster of our days.

Duff Cooper

(1890-1954)

Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty humming along beneath our ignorance that insured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

Robert James Waller

"Bridges of Madision County"

To hold her in my arms against the twilight and be her comrade for ever-this was all I wanted so long as my life should last...And this, I told myself with a kind of wonder, this was what love was: this consecration, this curious uplifting, this sudden inexplicable joy, and this intolerable pain.

Love the only fire against which there is no insurance.

Love is blind-and marriage is an eye-opener.

Anomymous

Nothing raises man to such noble peaks nor drops him into such ashpits of absurdity as the act of falling in love.

Ridgely Hunt

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

If you would be loved, be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life's hazards, save one-neglect.

James Bryden

Love will always find a way to be practical.

Joe White

I love mankind-its people I can't stand!

Linus

Love: A grave mental illness.

Plato

The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand.

Blaise Pascal

Love never dies of starvation but often of indigestion.

Ninon de Lenclos

Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl Manninger

In life, actions speak louder than words, but in love, the eyes do.

Susan B. Anthony

Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. If you love someone you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always belive in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him.

There are three things that remain-faith, hope, and love-and the greatest of these is love.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

The Bible

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

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