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Love Quotations for Valentine's Day
Part 1 - Authors A-E
compiled by Michelle JonesJust in time for Valentine's Day, here is a collection of famous quotes about love. I hope you will enjoy reading them as much as I did finding and writing them. May they will inspire you to love deeper and live a fuller life; in genuine love. Part one has quotations from authors A - E.
"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Has thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
Addison (from Rosamond)"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
Maya Angelou"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
Anonymous"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
Anonymous"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
Anonymous"Ama me fideliter!
Fidem meam noto:
De corde totaliter
Et ex mente tota,
Sum presentialiter
Absens in remota."
Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away."
Anonymous, Carmina Burana, "Omnia Sol Temperat""Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
James Baldwin"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve"Love, like a lamp, needs to be fed out of another's heart, or its flame burns low."
Henry Ward Beecher"Love is the river of life in the world."
Henry Ward Beecher"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."
Smiley Blanton"The best proof of love is trust."
Dr. Joyce Brothers"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."
Dr. Joyce Brothers"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
H. Jackson Brown Jr."Two human loves make one divine."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out."
Elizabeth Bowen"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life."
J.E. Buckrose"Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune."
Robert Burns (from Red, Red Rose)"... love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
Leo Buscaglia"Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours .... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity."
Leo Buscaglia"We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death."
Leo Buscaglia"You call it madness, but I call it love."
Don Bvas"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."
Ken Carey"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
Willa Cather"A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and care for the one you chose."
Rob Cella"All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frame
All are but ministers of Love
And feed His sacred flame."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Tell me who you love, and I'll tell you who you are."
Creole Proverb"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another."
Luciano de Crescenzo"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin"Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy."
Ralph Connor"Love decreases when it ceases to increase."
Vicomte De Chateaubriand"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
De Lamartine"Love builds bridges where there are none."
R. H. Delaney"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art."
St. Francis De Sales"Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality."
Emily Dickinson"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
Benjamin Disraeli"Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks."
John Donne, "The Bait""I am two fools, I know, for loving, and saying so."
John Donne"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
Henry Drummond"Love is love's reward."
John Dryden"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
Wayne Dyer"Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear."
Simeon Ben Eleazar"I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved."
George Eliot