Monday, April 17, 2006

Love. Love. Love.

Here are a couple of quotes for those who think they are in love, who are falling in love, who are already in love, or for those who simply believe in love.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and lay from your heart.-Unknown

Within you I lose myself
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again. -Unknown

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. -Shakespeare

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. -Unknown

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives. -Unknown

Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. -Kaleel Jamison

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. -Karen Casey

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -Mother Theresa

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. -Benjamin Franklin

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous

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

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. --George Jean Nathan

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. --Friedrich Nietzsche

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. -- P. J. O'Rourke

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him,
Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. --Ovid

We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. --Blaise Pascal

Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. --Alexander Pope

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. --French Proverb

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