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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Your love is more powerful than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love them as they are, and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Jesus of Nazarath (Matthew 5:43-44)
Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate.
- Anonymous
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- Anonymous
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question.
- Lily Tomlin
It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
- Groucho Marx
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz' Peanuts comic
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
- Henny Youngman
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
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Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
A good-bye is never painful unless you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rouchefoucauld
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond
I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
I won't miss you. I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
Never say goodbye when you still want to try, never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore when you can't let go.
- Anonymous
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran
Sometimes new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair,
they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment.
But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell
Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
- Omar Khayyam
Whatever happened in the past, forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I see your smile, and I know it's not for me, that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -- and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness --
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
- Omar Khayyam
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, -- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
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All you need is love.
- John Lennon
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
Love them as they are, and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.
- Anonymous
Love your spouse as they are, and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no good-byes, wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
- Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her, and after half an hour I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- Take the Money and Run (1969)
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
- Minnie Pearl
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
I read that you should never go out with someone if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
I love being married. It's great to find that one special person who you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
I'm not talking about lust. A woman in lust wants chocolate. A woman in love wants diamonds.
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
It's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, I'm No Angel (1933)
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
- Anonymous
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
Marriage is a fine institution - but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- G. K. Chesterton
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face.
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
The four most important words in any marriage..."I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
- Love and Death (1975)
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome. Then, of course, you spoke.
- As Good As It Gets (1997)
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
— Elbert Hubbard
All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
Every day is Christmas when you are open to receiving love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
I choose to enjoy people as I enjoy a rainbow or a butterfly - they are most beautiful when they are free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you because I love you. You are a part of me, and I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous
Love conquers all.
- Virgil
Love doesn't make the world go 'round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
. - Robert Frost
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44
Love: if you have to ask, it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
- Ellen Goodman
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anaïs Nin
Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.
- Anonymous
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
- William James
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
Your love is more powerful than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
- Anonymous
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and you.
- modern paraphrase of Omar Khayyam's verse
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them, but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
- Edmond Rostand
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.
It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
- Judy Garland
Don't fall for looks, they can deceive. Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away. Find someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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