A treat for you - Collection of Love Quotes =)
During cocktail hour I'm going to have love quotes playing on a screen in the background. So here's my collection from the past year .. feel free to add on!!
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Love is a friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - George Sand
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott
Came but for friendship, and took away love. – Thomas Moore
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. - Amy Bloom
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... - Thomas A. Kempis
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Bill Wilson
Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time. - Kamila
I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet. – William Butler Yeats
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is friendship set to music. - E. Joseph Crossmann
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. – Sophocles
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. – Ambrose Bierce
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. – Dr. James C. Dobson
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. – Sir James M. Barrie
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Herman Hesse
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. - John Keats
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you. – Unknown
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. - Josiah G. Holland
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
-Sam Keen
So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. -Alfred Lord Tennyson
A ring is round, and has no end. So is my love, for you dear friend.
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is in eternity. - Kahlil Gibran
'Happiness is being married to your best friend.' - Nicole Louise Divino
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. - Sean Connery
If you want to be loved, be lovable. - Ovid
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goathe
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. - Bible
Pride makes us do things well. But love makes us do things to perfection.
To love is to admire with the heart, to admire is to love with the mind.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
To be loved and to have loved is to have lived life to the fullest.
Love is a moment that lasts forever. – Julie Wittey
There is nothing greater in life than loving another and being loved in return, for loving is the ultimate of experiences. – Leon Buscaglia
'When I read my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Great lovers don't just meet somewhere, they are inside each other all the time.'
Rumi
'I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.'
Everything But the Girl
'I know I love him because every time I look into his eyes I see infinite happiness and serenity.'
'Love is like sand, if you grasp it too tightly it slips through your fingers. But if you hold it just right it will stay there forever.'
'Love was when I loved you, one true time I hold to.'
Celine Dion, My Heart Will Go On
'Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.' (Kahlil Gibran, The Vision)
When you can see your unborn children in her eyes, Ya know ya really love a woman – Bryan Adams
'When he is the cause of your inspiration, when the world appears under a wonderful new light, when suddenly the meaning of your life is obvious...then you are in love.'
'One night, the moon said to me, 'If he makes you cry, why don't you leave him?' I looked at the moon and said, 'Moon, would you ever leave your sky?''
'My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have for both are infinite.'
William Shakespeare
'Love is not 50/50, it is not give and take. In love each partner gives 100% and takes nothing in return.'
'Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.'
'Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy. It is often filled with anger and tears. It is when you want to be together despite it all. That is when you are truly in love.'
I love you not only for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you! – Roy Croft
'In you I find the completion of me and the wonder of us.'
'I asked for light, God gave me the sun, I asked for water, God gave me rain, I asked for happiness, and God gave me you.'
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Love is a friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - George Sand
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott
Came but for friendship, and took away love. – Thomas Moore
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. - Amy Bloom
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... - Thomas A. Kempis
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Bill Wilson
Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time. - Kamila
I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet. – William Butler Yeats
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is friendship set to music. - E. Joseph Crossmann
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. – Sophocles
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. – Ambrose Bierce
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. – Dr. James C. Dobson
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. – Sir James M. Barrie
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Herman Hesse
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. - John Keats
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you. – Unknown
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. - Josiah G. Holland
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
-Sam Keen
So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. -Alfred Lord Tennyson
A ring is round, and has no end. So is my love, for you dear friend.
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is in eternity. - Kahlil Gibran
'Happiness is being married to your best friend.' - Nicole Louise Divino
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. - Sean Connery
If you want to be loved, be lovable. - Ovid
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. - Johann Wolfgang von Goathe
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. - Bible
Pride makes us do things well. But love makes us do things to perfection.
To love is to admire with the heart, to admire is to love with the mind.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
To be loved and to have loved is to have lived life to the fullest.
Love is a moment that lasts forever. – Julie Wittey
There is nothing greater in life than loving another and being loved in return, for loving is the ultimate of experiences. – Leon Buscaglia
'When I read my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Great lovers don't just meet somewhere, they are inside each other all the time.'
Rumi
'I didn't know I was looking for love until I found you.'
Everything But the Girl
'I know I love him because every time I look into his eyes I see infinite happiness and serenity.'
'Love is like sand, if you grasp it too tightly it slips through your fingers. But if you hold it just right it will stay there forever.'
'Love was when I loved you, one true time I hold to.'
Celine Dion, My Heart Will Go On
'Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.' (Kahlil Gibran, The Vision)
When you can see your unborn children in her eyes, Ya know ya really love a woman – Bryan Adams
'When he is the cause of your inspiration, when the world appears under a wonderful new light, when suddenly the meaning of your life is obvious...then you are in love.'
'One night, the moon said to me, 'If he makes you cry, why don't you leave him?' I looked at the moon and said, 'Moon, would you ever leave your sky?''
'My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have for both are infinite.'
William Shakespeare
'Love is not 50/50, it is not give and take. In love each partner gives 100% and takes nothing in return.'
'Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.'
'Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy. It is often filled with anger and tears. It is when you want to be together despite it all. That is when you are truly in love.'
I love you not only for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you! – Roy Croft
'In you I find the completion of me and the wonder of us.'
'I asked for light, God gave me the sun, I asked for water, God gave me rain, I asked for happiness, and God gave me you.'
