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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two
minus one equals nothing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most
difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for
which all other work is but preparation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than
for bread.
~ Mother Teresa
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments
when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done
things in a spirit of love.
~ Henry Drummond
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human
being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind
shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and
finds no other inspiration.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Love is an electric
blanket with somebody else
in control of the switch.
~ Cathy Carlyle
Find the person who will love you because of your differences
and
not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we
keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones
The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity-love. And the
story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is
capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of
eternity.
~ Helen Hayes
"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me
smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
-Unknown
"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person
who you cannot live without."
-Unknown
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction."
-Saint-Exupery
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have
seen."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who
receive it."
-Dr. Karl Menninger
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray
"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant
to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
-Unknown
"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a
lifetime but lust just pushes away."
-Alicia Barnhart
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the
rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
-Unknown