Love

"She knew she was by him beloved,—she knew For quickly comes such knowledge, that his heart Was darken'd with her shadow."

"And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him."

"Why did she love him? Curious fool!—be still— Is human love the growth of human will?"

"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."

"The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name."

"Oh Love! young Love! bound in thy rosy band, Let sage or cynic prattle as he will, These hours, and only these, redeem Life's years of ill."

"What mad lover ever dy'd, To gain a soft and gentle bride? Or for a lady tender-hearted, In purling streams or hemp departed?"

"Love is a boy by poets styl'd: Then spare the rod and spoil the child."

"Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns."

"A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them."

"To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

"It is love that alone gives life, and the truest life is that which we live not in ourselves but vicariously in others, and with which we have no concern. Our concern is so to order ourselves that we may be of the number of them that enter into life — although we know it not."

"A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully."

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

"The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love."

"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

"And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator."

"Love. What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE."

"la palabra amor/se alzará de la tierra/en volcán inocente/que renueva universos"

"’’¡Oh amor entretenido en astros y palomas,/cómo en rocío feliz cruzas mi alma!’’"

"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."

"You couldn't love anything as much as I loved investments and not get fairly good at it."

"How accommodating love is; it forgives everything."

"Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions."

"Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too."

"The more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts."

"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."

"Love is a great beautifier."

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."

"Let us accept love as the motive force in the expansion of consciousness. The heart will not be aflame without love; it will not be invincible, nor will it be self-sacrificing. So let us bring gratitude to every receptacle of love, for love lies on the border of the New World, where hatred and intolerance have been abolished. The path of love unfolds with the intensity of cosmic energy."

"Regarding the various qualities of love, let us note the love that holds back and the love that impels forward. Essentially, the first type is earthly, while the second is heavenly. What a multitude of creations have been destroyed by the first, and what a similar number have been winged on by the second! The first is aware of all the limitations of space and consciousness, but the second has no need to measure things by earthly standards."

"Love can create universes. Love and Wisdom are equal."

"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships."

"When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The woman that deliberates is lost."

"When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together."

"Hatred has never stopped hatred. Only love stops hate. This is the eternal law."

"Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully."

"Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

"Regretter ce que l'on aime est un bien, en comparaison de vivre avec ce que l'on hait."

"L'on veut faire tout le bonheur, ou si cela ne se peut ainsi, tout le malheur de ce qu'on aime."

"Le commencement et le déclin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras où l'on est de se trouver seuls."

"L'amour qui naît subitement est le plus long à guérir."

"Le temps, qui fortifie les amitiés, affaiblit l'amour."

"For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is."

"The game of love is whatever you make it to be."

"But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not."

"I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom."

"Whoever lives true life, will love true love."

"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 everyday'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 thee with the 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."

"If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say "I love her for her smile — her look — her way Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" — For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, — and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, — A creature might forget to weep, who fbore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity."