Love isn't love if you didn't hurt someone.* Atmosphere
* All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us.
o Kevin Arnold (Daniel Stern) narrating in The Wonder Years (1988)
* Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
o Aristotle
love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
* True love is your soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another.
o John Beckwith ( Owen Wilson) in Wedding Crashers
* Love is a battlefield.
o "Pat Benatar"
* Love demands all, and has a right to all.
o Ludwig van Beethoven
* 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.
o The Bible, I Corinthians 13:1-2
* Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.... And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
o The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 8 (New King James Version) and an alternative "take":
* 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 hopes, always perseveres.
o The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
* William Blake
* 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.
o Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum
* "To be in love is to love an ideal within yourself. To love is to love no ideal but love within itself."
o James Stephen Cathcart
* Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles.
o Willa Cather
* Love is like oxygen. Love is a many splendid thing-love lifts us up where we belong! All you need is love.
o Christian (Ewan McGregor) in Moulin Rouge (2001)
* Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
o Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist
* Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. . . . When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
o Edmond de Goncourt (1822-96) and Jules de Goncourt (1830-70), French writers. The Goncourt Journals (1888-96; repr. in Pages from the Goncourt Journal, ed. by Robert Baldick, 1962), entry for 15 Nov. 1859.
* Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
o Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin
* Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
o Alexandre Dumas
[edit] Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
* Harlan Ellison, Title of book (1968)
* He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
o Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
o Madeleine L'Engle in ‘’A Wind in the Door’’
* He is not a lover who does not love forever.
o Euripides
For every lover is, in his head, a madman and in his heart a minstrel.
* Neil Gaiman
And think not you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
* Khalil Gibran
* Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
o John Harrigan
* Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.
o Joshua Harris
# Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars.
* Victor Hugo in Les Misérables
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
* Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977).
Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
* Jacques Lacan
* We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person
o W. Somerset Maugham
* We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
o Jacques Jacques Maritain
* To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
o Gabriel García Márquez
"True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend..."
* Mitch (Luke Wilson) in ‘’Old School’’
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightfowardingly, without complexeties or pride. So I love you because i know no other way than this...
* Pablo Neruda
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* What did my hands do before they held you?.
o Sylvia Plath
* Self-love seems so often unrequited.
o Anthony Powell
* At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
o Plato
Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit.
* Translation: The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
* Syrus Publilius
The course of true love never did run smooth.
* William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream (I, i, 134
Love's very pain is sweet. Percy Bysshe Shelle
* Love does not care for time or order.
o Vātsyāyana, the Kama Sutra
* love is not an emotion or feeling its a possesion and once you have it you are whole - T vendetta
* Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.
o Translation: "Love conquers all; and let us submit to love".
o Virgil
* To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides.
o David Viscott
True love is giving all you have to someone you know you're going to lose.
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.
* Sir Hugh Walpole
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs
Being purged, the fire in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
* "Romeo" in Romeo and Juliet act 1, sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
O lyric love, half angel
and half bird,
And all a wonder and a
wild desire !
* Robert Browning
You see through love, and that
deludes your sight,
As what is straight seems
crooked through the water.
* John Dryden (1631-1700
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 hopes, always perseveres.
* 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (New International Version)
* All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us.
o Kevin Arnold (Daniel Stern) narrating in The Wonder Years (1988)
* Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
o Aristotle
love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
* True love is your soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another.
o John Beckwith ( Owen Wilson) in Wedding Crashers
* Love is a battlefield.
o "Pat Benatar"
* Love demands all, and has a right to all.
o Ludwig van Beethoven
* 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.
o The Bible, I Corinthians 13:1-2
* Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.... And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
o The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 8 (New King James Version) and an alternative "take":
* 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 hopes, always perseveres.
o The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
* William Blake
* 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.
o Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum
* "To be in love is to love an ideal within yourself. To love is to love no ideal but love within itself."
o James Stephen Cathcart
* Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles.
o Willa Cather
* Love is like oxygen. Love is a many splendid thing-love lifts us up where we belong! All you need is love.
o Christian (Ewan McGregor) in Moulin Rouge (2001)
* Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
o Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist
* Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. . . . When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
o Edmond de Goncourt (1822-96) and Jules de Goncourt (1830-70), French writers. The Goncourt Journals (1888-96; repr. in Pages from the Goncourt Journal, ed. by Robert Baldick, 1962), entry for 15 Nov. 1859.
* Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
o Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin
* Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
o Alexandre Dumas
[edit] Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
* Harlan Ellison, Title of book (1968)
* He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
o Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
o Madeleine L'Engle in ‘’A Wind in the Door’’
* He is not a lover who does not love forever.
o Euripides
For every lover is, in his head, a madman and in his heart a minstrel.
* Neil Gaiman
And think not you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
* Khalil Gibran
* Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
o John Harrigan
* Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.
o Joshua Harris
# Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars.
* Victor Hugo in Les Misérables
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
* Erica Jong in How to Save Your Own Life (1977).
Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
* Jacques Lacan
* We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person
o W. Somerset Maugham
* We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
o Jacques Jacques Maritain
* To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
o Gabriel García Márquez
"True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend..."
* Mitch (Luke Wilson) in ‘’Old School’’
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightfowardingly, without complexeties or pride. So I love you because i know no other way than this...
* Pablo Neruda
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* What did my hands do before they held you?.
o Sylvia Plath
* Self-love seems so often unrequited.
o Anthony Powell
* At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
o Plato
Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit.
* Translation: The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
* Syrus Publilius
The course of true love never did run smooth.
* William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream (I, i, 134
Love's very pain is sweet. Percy Bysshe Shelle
* Love does not care for time or order.
o Vātsyāyana, the Kama Sutra
* love is not an emotion or feeling its a possesion and once you have it you are whole - T vendetta
* Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.
o Translation: "Love conquers all; and let us submit to love".
o Virgil
* To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides.
o David Viscott
True love is giving all you have to someone you know you're going to lose.
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.
* Sir Hugh Walpole
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs
Being purged, the fire in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
* "Romeo" in Romeo and Juliet act 1, sc. 1 by William Shakespeare
O lyric love, half angel
and half bird,
And all a wonder and a
wild desire !
* Robert Browning
You see through love, and that
deludes your sight,
As what is straight seems
crooked through the water.
* John Dryden (1631-1700
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 hopes, always perseveres.
* 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (New International Version)
