"Love is never having to say you are sorry."

"When you love a person, you are giving him, the power to hurt you."

"Love is having to see more than what meets the eyes."

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Margaret of Valois

The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
Juliet to Romeo, Wm. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Take my breath away.
Marc Anthony to Cleopatra, Wm. Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra

Make me immortal with a kiss.
Dr. Faustus to Helen of Troy, Marlowe's Dr.Faustus

She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies
Lord Byron,Hebrew Melodies

Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.
Lord Byron, Stanzas for Music

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning Sonnets from the Portugese

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning Sonnets from the Portugese

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
Robert Burns, A Fond Kiss

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning to Elizabeth BarrettBrowning

I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
The Bible, The Song of Solomon

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabelle Lee

Come lie with me and be my love and we will some new pleasures
John Donne

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all the other pleasures are.
John Dryden, English poet

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.
F. W. Bourdillon, Light

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.
Auden W. H

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
Brouman, Olga

A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.
Quinn, Marysarah

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Keyes, Ken Jr.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Rubin, Theodore Isaac

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

There are never enough "I love yous"
Lenny Bruce

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Keller, Helen

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Holland J. G.

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is home.
Anonymous

Life is short and we never have too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Amiel, Henri -Fre'deric

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbors shoulder is to pat him on the back
Anonymous

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Arnay, Janos

The love of nature is consolation against failure
Morisot, Berthe

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are
Nin, Anais

Please all, and you will please none.
Aesop

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Anonymous

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Anonymous

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that, but the really great make you become great.
Twain, Mark Aeschylus

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Aesop

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

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

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Loves possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.

-kahlil gibran