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Being alive means having a heart and expressing it.
In freeing the body, we free the heart
to experience the power of love.

Gabrielle Roth




"Love cures people -
both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it."

Dr. Karl Menninger (1893-1990)
American psychiatrist


"...if we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you."

Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)
American writer & historian


                 





"I was at a party feeling very shy because there were a lot of celebrities around, and I was sitting in a corner alone and a very beautiful young man came up to me and offered me some salted peanuts and he said, "I wish they were emeralds" as he handed me the peanuts and that was the end of my heart. I never got it back."
Helen Hayes
American actress



"Love is not a matter of counting the years -
it's making the years count."

Wolfman Jack Smith




"Where love reigns the impossible may be attained."
Indian Proverb



"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Robert Frost (1874-1963)
American poet


                           



"Without love intelligence is dangerous;
Without intelligence love is not enough."

Ashley Montagu
American anthropologist


                 




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

Alexander Smith (1830-1867)
Scottish poet



"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love."

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
English writer



"I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life !"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
English poet


"To love for the sake of being loved is human;
but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."

Alphonse De Lamartine (1790-1869)
French poet


"Gratitude looks to the past
and love to the present.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
English writer


                           




"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."

Karen Sunde
American playwright



"Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other,
it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other,
it is concluded with the impossibility of separation !"

Jose Marti Y Perez
Cuban writer



"The way to love anything
is to realize that it might be lost."

G. K. Chesterton
English writer


                 




"To love deeply in one direction
makes us more loving in all others."

Madame Swetchine (1782-1857)
Russian-French writer



"We don't love qualities, we love a person;
sometimes by reason of their defects
as well as their qualities."

Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
French philosopher



"Love conquers all things."

Virgil (70-19 BC)
Roman Poet




"Life has taught us that love does not
consist in gazing at each other but in
looking outward together in the same direction."

Antoine De Saint Exupery (1900-1944)
French writer


                           



"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
American writer


                 




"There is but one genuine love-potion...
consideration."

Menander (342-292 BC)
Greek playwright



"So, if I dream I have you, I have you,
For, all our joys are but fantastical."

John Donne (1572-1631)
English poet




"The course of true love never did run smooth."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)


                           




"Love cometh like sunshine after rain."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)




"All love is sweet,
Given or returned."

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet