~ From the movie "The Mirror Has Two Faces"

Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.

~ J. Ghetto

Other men said they have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

~ G. Moore

He fell on me like a wave. But like a wave he washed away, leaving no sign that he had been there.

~ Louise Erdrich

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes.

~ William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing”

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

~ Joan Crawford

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

~ Leo Buscaglia

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,in life after life, in age after age forever.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

~ Leo Tolstoy

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

~ Plato

Romance isn't dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized and sold off piece by piece.

~ Lisa Simpson

A cat does not want all the world to love her - only those she has chosen to love.

~ Helen Thomson

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

~ Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

You know you're in love when you take the longer way to class even if it means going up two extra stair cases just to see his face.

~ Unknown

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

~ Captain Corelli's Mandolin

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.

~ Jonathan Carroll

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

~ Lao Tzu

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

~ James Grover Thurber

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

~ Samuel Lover

For suddenly, I saw you there. And through foggy London town, the sun was shining everywhere...

~ George Gershwin

Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

~ Rose Walker, in Sandman: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaman

John: "I don't believe in love."

Chris: "So what are you looking for?"

John: "Love."

Chris: "You just said you didn't believe in love."

John: "Well I don't believe in Unicorns either, but it would still be cool to have one..."

~ John Medinger & Chris Coffen

Love teaches even asses to dance.

~ French Proverb

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 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...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

~ 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

~ John Wesley

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world...

~ Emmet Fox

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