To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive,
which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
 L.O. Baird
 

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home.  Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
Mother Teresa
 

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves;  later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
Marcel Proust
     

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

True love is like a ghost; everyone talks of it, 
few have seen it.
La Rochefoucauld
 

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
 

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard,

but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
 

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,

but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W.H. Auden
 

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
For that which is essential is invisible to the eye.
                From a book entitled "The Little Prince"
 

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 

But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
Sir Walter Raleigh
     

Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
 

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.
Ralph Nichols
 

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
 

When I was a young man,
I vowed never to marry until
I found the ideal woman.
Well, I found her.
But, alas, she was waiting
for the ideal man.
Robert Schuman
 

Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we're gone.
Titanic Theme, "My Heart Will Go On"
 

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon
 

You may wish to be loving-- you may even try with all your might-but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments.
            John Gray  (Men, Women and Relationships)
 

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.  Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:7-8 NIV
 

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
 

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. Across the barriers of time and the ultimate destiny, love persists, for the home of the beloved, absent or present, is always in the mind and heart. Absence does not diminish love.
Mary Parrish (MaCalls Magazine)
 

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,
a  kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the
smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to
turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
 

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand Russell
 

Though we may think we know each other well, when we neglect feelings in a relationship, we neglect the deepest and most intimate part of ourselves ... sharing feelings leads us to great closeness because feelings are very personal, the most intimate part of us. The sharing of a deep feeling is the greatest gift a human being can give to another.
Fr. Chuck Gallagher
 

Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world.
 Rev Ed Hird
   

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
 

 

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