Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
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If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy
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There are three kinds of love, - unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind. The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.
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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 on to 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.
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"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Who, being loved, is poor?"
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "The first duty of love - is to listen."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Nothing in this world is single, all things by laws divine in one spirit mix and mingle; why not I with thine?"
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul." ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Love is the greatest refreshment in life
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life. [The Spectator Magazine]"
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Love is a haunting melody That I have never mastered And I fear I never will."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life. [Romeo & Juliet]"
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Life without love is like a tree Without blossom and fruit
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident."
"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."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Love in its essence is spiritual fire." ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "It is not night when I do see your face."
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"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation - We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love."
"To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
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"Love conquers all things; let us surrender to Love."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it - you and you alone make me feel that I am alive - Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
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Don't wait until it's too late to tell someone how much you love, how much you care. Because when they're gone, no matter how loud you shout and cry, they won't hear you anymore.
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L = Life became so beautiful from the day you took my heart away. O = Once you were a stranger and now you are my soul. V = Very special are those stoler smiles & glances. E = Each moment spend with you has given sweet memories for the life time to me.
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L = Life became so beautiful from the day you took my heart away. O = Once you were a stranger and now you are my soul. V = Very special are those stoler smiles & glances. E = Each moment spend with you has given sweet memories for the life time to me.