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A bell isn't a bell till you ring it,  a song isn't a song till you sing it,  and the love in your heart wasn't put there to stay,  love isn't love till you give it away. ..Oscar Hammerstein

A broken heart is a monument to love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to love that is already on it's deathbed.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire;  It extinguishes the small and kindles the great.  -- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Accept the things to which fate binds you,  and love the people with whom fate brings  you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius

A heart that soothes the soul is a heart the beats forever with love.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed my nature to stop speech when words become superfluous

A hug is a perfect gift, one size fits  all, and it is easy to exchange!

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. -- Mistinguett

A kiss kept is wasted, love is meant to be tasted.

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.

A life lived in love will never be dull.  -- Leo Buscaglia

A life with love must have some thorns, but a life with no love will have no roses.

A life without love is like a year without summer. -- Swedish Proverb

All doesn't mean love, but love is all.

All I want is for you to have a life you love and live.  Take from me all I have to give, because you are in my heart. -- Vertical Horizon

All love is sweet, given or returned  -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

All my life I have been searching for TRUE MAGIC,  but you were right here beside me the whole time. -- From the movie "Houdini"

Allow devotion and love to become the beginning, middle, and end of your day.

All that is in the heart is written on the face. -- Proverb

A love relationship may only last if we, ourselves,  find the strength and the desire to keep the flame of love alive, day after day...

A memory of true love is like a  favorite song; no matter how many times it  plays again, you never get tired of it.

Amid the gloom and travail of existence suddenly to behold a beautiful being, and instantaneously to feel an overwhelming conviction that with that fair form for ever our destiny must be entwined ... this is love.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. -- Abraham Cowley

An exciting, adventurous relationship only  happens when you become exciting and adventurous!  With excitement and adventure present in your love  relationship, you will never have to re-ignite the  flame of love. . . only keep it burning.

A part of you has grown in me, and, so you see, it's you and me, forever, and never apart;  maybe in distance but never in heart.

A soft rain falls gently on my weary eyes, As if to hide a single tear, My life will be forever autumn, Because you're not here -- Moody Blues

A tear falls forever inside a broken heart.

A thousand kisses aren't enough to show what's in my heart.

Being in a couple is about learning from one another.  Don’t forget that learning implies growth; it requires  time and patience, and it involves making mistakes  before “getting it right.” And, of course, there’s  no end to the learning. What have you learned  about your partner in the last week? Sit down and have a conversation this weekend, and don’t stop talking  until you’ve both discovered something new about each other. 

Believe in love itself... and all its endless bounds. It's surprising what love can really go through to prove its strength.  -- Stephanie Rowlee

Best romantic tip:  Be yourself!

But love suffers its own kind of degradation when it becomes nothing more than a comfort zone. It is always more than just a way for two people's minimal needs to be met.  -- Leo Buscaglia

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever  -- Robert Burns

Caught in your eyes, lost in your name,  and I will never be the same.

Certain things will catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart.

Choose to be in a relationship where the romance continues; where both partners continue to do things that you considered romantic when the relationship began.

Choose your love, and then love your choice

Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines, and silver hooks...  -- John Donne

Commitment is a deep trust, a devotion discovered in the choice to be together. Commitment needs no agreements because it is based on desire, not obligation. A forever love relationship requires devotion, loyalty and a mature ability to commit.

Countless words, nor countless actions  could ever define my feelings for you.  True love defies definition.

Courage. It takes courage! To have a healthy love relationship you must take a leap of faith. The faith is in the leap; the leap into the unknown. In that moment you decide. With all the love you possess as your support, you make the decision for change in the presence of fear. In doing so, fear goes away. The miracle of the adventure lies in living life in the leap! Two hearts - committed to be true to the other - will carry one another safely to the other side. 

Death can not stop true love, it can only delay it for a little while.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love  -- Dr Laura

Don't love with your heart, or you'll lose your mind. But love with your mind so you can use your heart.

Don't spend your life with someone you can live with - spend it with the one you can't live without

Don't try to reason with your heart or feel with your mind for just as the heart knows no logic, the mind can't lead you to your soul.

Each night in your arms, the moon spills silvery dreams. My heart catches them.

Even in the absence of a loved one, you can always close your eyes and dream of being together. Your mind is a great tool for dreaming up great scenarios.

Everyday is the beginning of a lifetime of togetherness.

Every minute without you feels like an eternity.

Everyone dreams of a love lasting and true,  but you and I know this one can do.

Everyone has the capacity to give and receive love from the heart, for that is your main purpose..... to discover the love within each of you. To bring it outward and rejoice it to the world and to your fellow man or woman. Everywhere you go, always leave a piece of your heart, for it will enrich your life!

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength --Hasidic saying

Faces we see, hearts we know not.

Falling in love is exactly falling. You don't have much control over it.

Falling in love is the easy part. Thanks for staying there with me.

Falling in love is when that person falls asleep in your arms and awakens in your dreams.

Fear? What is there to fear in love? Love is the very reason we live. To fear love is to lose all sense of living, and if we cannot love, then why have we been put here? Fearing love is like being afraid of breathing. It's not something to be scared of. It's so natural that no one can resist

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. --Albert Einstein

Follow love and it will flee thee, flee love and it will follow thee.  --Proverb

Follow your heart, never surrender your dreams.

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

For you, I would stop the very rotation of the earth simply to keep one moment forever.

Have you really pierced your lovers soul ?

Have you truly followed your heart?

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned...  -- William Butler Yeats

Henceforth there will be such a oneness between us .. that when one weeps the other will taste salt.

HOPE is the only tie which keeps the heart from breaking

Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don't believe in romance.  -- Jean Zheng

How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security, and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E.  It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.  -- Josh McDowell

How vast a memory has love!  -- Alexander Pope

I am finding that our destiny isn't in faraway places or in grand adventures, but deep within ones soul.

I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.  -- Benito Perez Galdos

I came alive when I started loving you.

I can be with you always, whether you're near or far; For I have roads inside me;  That take me where you are. 

I can see love from this height. If this is life then living-with all it's hurt and disillusion-was not in vain.

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. -- Jacqueline Bisset

I fell in love with you the second I laid eyes on you, it had nothing to do with the way you looked, there was something in your eyes,  then I found out what was in your heart.

If even a day should go by when I don't say I love you,  may never a moment go by without you knowing that I do.

If I could come back as anything, It would be as one of your tears. How could I want more than to be conceived in your heart, Born in your eyes, Live on your cheeks and die on your lips...

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile.... I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hands. -- -- James Popejoy

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.  -- Lord Tennyson

If I know what love is, it is because of you.  -- Herman Hesse

If I said I loved you only as much as  life itself.... Death would prove me a liar.

If I tell you I love you can I keep you forever?  -- Casper

If love is so important to have that one doesn't want to lose it, why is it when we find true love we often don't notice it?

If loves divine, true love you are. If love art mine, then mine you are.

If now is going to be the last moment of my life, the first thing I want to do, would be holding you in my arms, my love.

If their smile warms your heart, embrace eases you, and kiss distills all wrong done to man, then you know that you have found true love.

If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, it will still be you and me. --Led Zeppelin

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows- it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes too late.  -- Jean Giraudoux

If two souls were meant to be then God would  never let that love perish. Even if they separate the love between them will unite them once more.

If you enjoy your life to its fullest,  love will come and keep you company.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life,  no matter what else there is, it is not enough. -- Ann Landers

If you never had a broken heart, you have not yet experienced true love.

If you really love someone, you're willing to let go even if it hurts so bad. And when he/she comes back to you, that's TRUE LOVE.

If you want an adventurous heart experience in which the thirst for love is quenched forever by a love relationship blessed with unconditional love. . . trust is the only answer.

I have resolved that if you are afraid of love your heart will break anyway. Only in not half so nice a fashion as when you let somebody love you.  -- Ann Rinaldi

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.  --George Eliot

I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die 'Til the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

I love thee with all thy breath, smiles, tears of all my life. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

I love you, not only for what you are, but for who I am when I am with you.  -- Roy Croft

I love you with all of my heart, body, and soul. You complete me. You make my life worth living.  To have known you and to have loved you  has been the most beautiful dream. I can only hope that I never wake up.  -- Amber Murphy

In a sense, a great love relationship lives on the tip of your tongue. Things go well because you both say so. . . and because of what each of you do. The thoughts you have about yourself, your love partner and your love relationship often end up in the words you speak in your relationship. Words can never be recalled. Once out there. . . they do their intended work; interpreted however they may be by your love partner. The words you speak determine what shows up in your relationship. Relationships cannot be truly great and utterly incredible unless you make internal changes in the way you think and take caution of the words you speak.

In a whispered moment of love say, "I've never felt more in love with you than right now."

Indifference is like water to a fire. The flame of love  grows dim with indifference to your love partner's needs.

In healthy love relationships we neither lead nor follow. We walk hand in hand, side by side. When it is appropriate, we can, without fear, let go for a while, always being nearby to love and to share. Love is no tug-of-war. We trust and respect our love partner giving them the freedom to be who they are, always with our love and best wishes.

In life, actions speak louder than words, but in love, the eyes do.

In life, there are many roads, and there is one known as love.  When you come to the end of this  road, you have found true love.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.  -- Mignon Mclaughlin

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye... -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

It is the mistaken belief that you must push your love relationship in the direction you think it should go that keeps you in a strained and unhappy relationship with it. Reality has its own effortless course,  and you can either embrace its way or struggle endlessly with your way.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it  will not be created for years or even generations.  -- Khalil Gibran

It may take a lifetime to find true love, but when you do, you will have an eternity to share it.

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone,  an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but takes a lifetime to forget someone.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone, when one loves

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.  -- Antoine de Saint Exupery

It's better to have gained memories from a love, then to have never had the chance, for memories remain in the heart.

I will greatly miss you, especially your presence in my life. Now my place in your book of life is gone and it is time to move on. So as time goes by, and there are more good-byes I hope that you remember me and the thoughts of our 'time'.

I wish I could keep you right in my heart and feed you my love and passion for rest of my life.

I wish you could live my life for just a moment. Then you would you see the difference you mean to me.

I would give up my life if I could command, one smile of your eyes and one touch of your hand.

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training --D. L. Moody

Just as a flower is not the same as a tiny bud, we are not the same as when we first fell in love. Our love has grown more beautiful with time.

Just because we know something doesn't mean anything. Something can never really mean anything until we do something with it. We must do something - whatever it takes - to make our relationships the relationships we love being in. We must always carefully consider what action to take. Action without thought is only thoughtless action. That rarely works. Knowing this does not mean our relationships will always be great. We have choice. Every choice has a consequence. The dilemma is this: there are two people. That means we have two people making choices and there are a multitude of choices each of us could make. Each love partner is only and always responsible for their own choices. Relationships are individual projects first - the one with ourselves - and mutually beneficial projects second - the one with ourselves and our lover. Taking responsibility for our own stuff is a wonderful gift we give ourselves and our love partner. Relationships take our constant attention; every day and every minute. It is when we forget this that problems begin

Kiss me and you shall see stars, love me and I'll give them to you.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. --Song of Solomon

Let men beware of causing women to weep; God counts their tears.  --Hebrew Proverb

Let the wings of love & laughter lift you up above the moon, above the stars, above the sun .. until you are soaring above the planets .. set your spirit free .. & breathe the magic that is all around .. You are the magic & the music that gives birth to the life of the galaxy.

Let your heart guide you. it whispers, so listen carefully. -- From The Land Before Time

Life gives us time but only love gives us meaning.

Life has no job nobler than that of love.

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

Life is a journey from one point to another. You know where you will end up, but you don't know what route will get you there.  --Jennifer Robinson

Life is too short to talk about love...... just feel it.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Life is the flower of which love is the honey.  --Victor Hugo

Life is water and love is a river.

Life, the gift of nature Love, the gift of life A Kiss, the gift of Love

Live today as if you have a thousand years in which to live and plan .. but cherish today and your loved ones as if this day were your last .. remember those who love consider your life essential to their living ..

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love and hate are an equal emotion, but to hate is to live a dead life and to love it to live a dream.

Love and the gentle heart are but a single thing.  --Dante Alighieri

Love, a simple word, yet, full of abstract meanings...

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

Love can find a way  --Ancient Proverb

Love can hope where reason would despair   --Lord Lyttleton George

Love cannot tame the wildest beast, but it can tame the wildest heart

Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.  --Virgil

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it  -- Dr. Karl Menninger

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart  -- Euripides

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life's hazards, save one - neglect. -- James Bryden

Love doesn't make the world go round,  love is what makes the ride worth while. -- Franklin P. Jones

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.  --Thomas A Kempis

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, It's what you're expected to give-which is everything.

LOVE - How can such a small word mean so much?

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the waters of adversity and grief

Love is a feeling of serenity within the heart, a feeling of homecoming, whatever the distance between you and your love.

Love is a flower and you its only seed.  --Amanda McBroom

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.   --Mother Teresa

Love is a gift, not an obligation, follow your heart and always trust the person you love.

Love is a journey not a destination.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit  --Peter Ustinov

Love is an irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly. / Love is the desire to be irresistibly desired -- Robert Frost

Love is a shining star peeking through a cloudy night! 

Love is a tasteless, formless feeling which without heat warms you, without metal strengthens you, without taste feeds you, without faith spiritualizes you, without which you are less - with which you are more.

Love is a word that can build and burn bridges to the soul.

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

Love is broad; if you love someone, you love all things, not just their beauty. Love is narrow; you love one and only one, compared to them, no one matters.  --A McBraxton

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.  --Alexander Smith

Love is choosing to live your life to touch someone else's.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is friendship set to music

Love is happiness given back and forth.

Love is like a butterfly; chase it, it will run; pay no attention to it and it will sit softly on your shoulder.

Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases, and pleases where it goes

Love is like a candle. It's lit in one instant, but it takes a long time to burn down.

Love is like a candle. Lighting another's with our own never diminishes the light we have; it only helps us to see more clearly.

Love is like a hunger, a food that is always needed, true love will fill the soul!

Love is like a flame, beautiful if controlled, dangerous if not.

Love is like a flower that blooms with love and care.

Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties ..  -- Jules Renard

Love is like an open book, once you've  opened it, you may never want to close it

Love is like a photo negative..  it needs darkness to develop.

Love is like a precious jewel... You do not realize what you have till it begins to shine. After you see the glow, you can never live without it.

Love is like a puzzle; it takes time to find the perfect match.

Love is like a rose. It needs tender care in order to bloom.

Love is like a sweet flower, true love is a sweet rose...

Love is like a sweet red rose, brushing against the strings of my heart. Love is knowing that he will always be there.
Wendy Callaghan

Love is like a tranquil breeze that sweeps over my soul making me whole.

Love is like quicksand .. the deeper you fall in, the harder it is to get out ..

Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.

LOVE is more than just saying I LOVE YOU.

Love is my life, life is my love, Love is my whole felicity, Love is my sweet, sweet is my love, I am in love, and love in me. --Michael Drayton

Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.

Love is nature's second sun -- George Chapman

Love is neither fair or sincere if you're just going through the motions.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less --Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love is not finding someone to live with,  It's finding someone you can't live without.  -- Rafael Ortiz

Love is nothing but the fear of the mortal man at the thought of solitude.

Love is one, not one in a million, not one of a kind. When you find true love with someone, there's only one. Love is one.

Love is running into your one true love after 20 years and it feels like only yesterday you were in his arms.

Love is something eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence.  There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.  The lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light, too, and that is its real function.
Vincent Van Gogh

Love is something you do. Love is as love does. Never be content with only telling your love partner you love them; promise to show it in expressions of affection. Plan to be spontaneously affectionate.

Love is taking care of, with regular intervals of taking 'good' care of, and occasional splurges of pampering. -- Peter McWilliams

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.  --Robert A. Heinlein

Love is the art of giving the gift of life... and allowing others to do the same It is a choice of the soul and an act of our spirit Indeed Love is the greatest gift of all for it never runs out for those who partake of it's waters Love yes Love my friend will always quench your thirst, always heal thy hunger and protect our ways So live life..... Keep the gift..... Make it show..... And share it with your world

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest  --Henry Van Dyke

Love is the gift you give yourself ~ follow your heart ~ trust your soul ~ and believe in your spirit ... One day happiness will find you and place you in the arms of an angel ~ Follow your heart, because if you don't, your mind won't let you ever forget

Love is the last great mystery of life.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. --Ben Hecht

Love is the only gold. -- Tennyson

Love is the surrendering of ones  heart, mind, body and soul.

Love is to share your life with someone you love and love forgets mistakes.

Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go straight to their soul, and  you both know it instantly.

Love is when you look into your lover's eyes and see God smiling back at you.

Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation.  --Kahil Gibran

Love lights its own path, it never gets lost on its way home.

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;  and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare

Love makes up for the lack of long memories by a sort of magic. All other affections need a past; love creates a past with envelopes us as if by enchantment  -- Benjamin Constant De Rebecque

Love - May it be yours - never to lose, always to cherish .. Gentle-Daydreamer

Love means making the other happy, even from a distance.

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.  --Mahatma Gandhi

Love pours sweetness into everything.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.  --Rabindranath Tagore

Love serves as more than a mirror for us  --Leo Buscaglia

Love speaks even when the lips are closed.

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside. --Margaret Walker

Love: Temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love that is cleansed by tears shall eternally remain pure and beautiful.

Love to faults is always blind... always is to joy inclined.... lawless, winged and unconfined... and breaks all chains from every mind.....  -- William Blake

Love unreturned is like a question without an answer.

Love without kisses is not love.

Loving sometimes means we must let go .. That is the hardest lesson that I'll ever come to know .. In my dreams he is still my man, and we're complete But when I wake up I realize I'm alone and he's moved on ..

Loving you was easy, losing you was hard. Loving you is still easy, but knowing you are no longer mine, is the hardest of it all.

Lucky people experience love once; Gifted people find love for life.  Blessed people found love for eternity.

Many of us seem content being passive witnesses to love. convinced that since we were born for love, it should present no problems. As soon as love brings discomfort or appears to make demands of us, our instinct is to withdraw, convinced that we were not meant to struggle.

Many times in our lives we encase our heart in hopes that it will never sustain the feeling of hurt .. But always remember, to welcome the feeling of love in your heart and allow that special person The Key To Your Heart.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. -- Song of Solomon 8:7

May the love you share be as timeless  as the tides and as deep as the sea.  -- 1 Corinthians 13

Measure your life in love.

Men always wasn't to be a woman's first love -- Oscar Wilde

Most of us are drawn to potential partners who challenge and intrigue us because of the ways in which they are different from us. At the same time, we want a partner with whom we feel at home and who reassures us by sharing our basic values and goals in life. The formula for attraction and for success is - different enough to interest us, similar enough to reassure us. -- Promising Partnerships Newsletter

Music is love in search of a word

My bed is so empty that i keep on waking up; As the cold increases, the night-wind begins to blow....... It rustles the curtains, making a noise like the sea..... Oh that those were waves which could carry me back to you........  -- Chien Wen-ti

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love is deep, the more I give to thee the more I have, for both are infinite. -- William Shakespeare

My heart is ever at your service  --William Shakespeare

My heart, my life, my soul.... she has the key to them all. She has but to turn the key and allow me to surround her... with my warmth and love.

My simple existence means nothing without the life of the love you give.

Never frown when you are sad, because you never know who loves you for your smile -- Justine Milton

Never have I been so surrendering to a feeling.... I must admit this is sweet surrender... this is true love.

Never question if you are in love or not.... because if you were...you wouldn't need to ask.

Night and day you are the one, only you beneath the moon
and under the sun  -- Cole Porter

Nobody had ever measured, even  poets, how much the heart can hold.  --Zelda Fitzgerald

No matter how hard things seem,  true love will aide you through it.

No matter where life takes me, if  you are there to greet me I am home.

No one can tell anyone what love is; you will simply know it when you feel nothing else. --Jared Little

No one said love was easy. It is a constant search replete with it's share of confusion, frustration and despair. If it is comfort we seek, we might best center solely upon ourselves where we can be master, hindered neither by conflict nor the need to compromise. But as long as we bring others into our lives, we can be assured of a certain degree of conflict.

Oh, what fun to make great music together! However. . . no matter how carefully we work together to play the right love notes, our relationship sometimes plays sour notes; we strike a wrong chord. Love, commitment and loving conversation enables us to make music together in a way that helps us stay in tune with one another. Committed lovers listen for the music in words that come from the heart. The music of the heart is the nourishment of love. When two hearts make music together, it's as if the angels sing. Take care to always be singing the same song. 

Once in a while, the gift of love will come to us  in full blossom, and we will take hold of it. If  love chooses to leave then set it free. It would  surely come back if it's meant for you. Just be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life.

Once you find your true love, your heart will know it because it will always leave a feeling  inside of you that never goes away.

Once you've felt love, you'll know it's love because you don't want to let it go.  -- Jean Zheng

One is very crazy when in love. --Sigmund Freud

One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul...  --D. H. Lawrence

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. -- Margaret Mead, anthropologist

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.  -- Sophocles

Only a person who has not felt true love can move on in life saying 'There are lots of other fish in the sea.'

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

Our love is the second most treasured thing in my life, you are the first.

Our heart is the driving force in our life and the mind is the brake.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are  -- John Dryden

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.  -- Kahlil Gibran

Passion is the essence of the soul, caressing the mind... touching the heart... to feel passion is to feel life...... there is nothing else like it....

Perfect love casteth out fear. -- I John 4:18

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.  When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you what love is and what it is not. No authority knows and he who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding.

Rarely is there a time when it is appropriate to withhold relevant communication in a love relationship. Communication is too important to take casually. Say what you mean. Say what you feel in a loving way and say it nevertheless. When you say what you know needs to be said, you will never have to worry about saying the wrong thing. 

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face,  but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

Remember that Great Love and Great Achievements involve Great Risk 

Resist being afraid to reveal your limitations to your partner. Yes, it's scary, and you are now a team. Your partner will almost  always be the most dependable, the first in line to care, and the first to help, if help is requested. Often all that is needed is someone  who will listen. First, it is okay to make yourself vulnerable.  Next, working together on strengthening limitations develops character. It promotes unity by creating a common bond of  sharing that helps each other be the best they can be for themselves and for the relationship.

Romantic love is a passionate-spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person. -- Nathaniel Branden

Seduction of the mind leads to the surrender of heart, body and soul. Your whisper I hear in my ear, your kiss I feel in my heart, your touch I feel in my Soul.......

Self-disclosure demands some risk of getting hurt. Your demonstration of courage, that is. . . revealing your true self to your love partner, in an atmosphere of unconditional love and acceptance, can open up new conversations that  will support further disclosure in the most  sensitive areas of your relationship, perhaps in the areas that count the most. 

Speak softly my love, hold me close against your heart... because my life is yours...

Softness of a precious love, Gentle touch so rare, A memory that I embrace, In every day we share

So long as we love, we serve. So long as we are loved by others I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.  --Robert Louis Stevenson

So many times I thought I would never find someone to love me the way I needed to be loved. Then you came into my life and showed me what true love really is!

Some have a lifetime, some just a day. Love isn't something you measure that way. Nothings ever forever.  Forever is a lie. All we have is between hello and goodbye.

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Some people say that when you are in love, you must always hold hands. But when it's true love, you don't need to because you just know that the other hand will always be there.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and  still be fascinated by their presence.  -- David Byrne

Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them. -- Jean Zheng

Sometimes the thing you want the most in life is the hardest thing to get. Stop trying so hard and just maybe it will be easier to receive.

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away;  And all the things I want to say can find no voice.  Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.   -- Robert Sexton

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, And finds in your presence that life is worth while, So when you are lonely, remember it's true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.

So this is who you are. And the rest of  my life I dedicate to you. My love will go on just as long as the river flows. -- Bee Gees

SO WHAT IS LOVE? So what is love?  If thou wouldst know The human heart alone can tell: Two minds with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. And whence comes Love?  Like morning bright Love comes without thy call. And how dies Love?  A spirit bright, Love never dies at all. -- Maria Lovell

Stimulate the heart to love,  and all other virtues will rise of their own accord -- W. T. Ussery

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of  love, and the end of all that came before.  -- Robert Frost 

Take away the trials, take away the pain, take away the sorrow, take away the pain, take away the emptiness, take away the sorrow and you will find true love.

Take the words 'I love you'. Now multiply them  by infinity and take them to the depths of forever and you will still only have a glimpse of how much I really do love you.

Take time to reconnect:  Sometimes two people just need to take an emotional breather, and reconnect. You also know what you have is special when you are together, and there is nothing that you can not talk about. Openness and honesty is important. Talking and cuddling is very nice, and another good connector is when you just look at each other, and stroke each others faces, etc. 

The Air.. The Sea.. You & Me .. What more could there ever be ..

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. --Helen Keller

The best proof of love is trust -- Dr. Joyce Brothers

The chains of love are never binding as when the links are made of gold. -- Royall Tyler

The colors red and pink are associated with love. Red roses are given to show love, Chocolate candies, fancy scents and silky underthings have also been given in love.

The commitment that supports a healthy partnership is the commitment each has to the other to always be working on the relationship; a commitment to always be in a dance with one another, showering each other with compassion and understanding. 

The conclusion is always the same: Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy of the world, so when we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is "what was the quality of our love?"

The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is un-disguisable.  --John Cheever

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.  --Ashleigh Brilliant

The distance between the dawns is far greater when one's love is lost... --Vicki Barnett

The fire of love will not burn on alone. It must be  watched carefully. If we are to keep the fire of  love alive, we must do whatever is necessary to keep the fuel for the flames replenished whatever the cost. Loves' fire feeds off the energy we put into keeping it burning! 

The first time ever I saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts u gave to the dark and the empty skies.

The girl in the omnibus had one of those faces of marvelous beauty which are seen casually in the streets but never among one's friends. Where do these women come from? Who marries them? Who knows them?

The greatest love is that given in silence.

The greatest pain that comes from love, is loving someone you can never have.

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

The great tragedy of life is not that  men perish, but that they cease to love.  -- William Somerset Maugham

The heart already knows what the mind can only dream of. Trust your heart.

The heart and the soul must bind together to make true love.

The heart that has truly loved, never forgets.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it… you and you alone make me feel that I am alive… Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.  --George Moore

The journey itself is what makes life, not the outcome. -- Jennifer Robinson

The longer we're together, the more I realize how much these words, "I Love You," really mean.

The loving are the daring  -- Bayard Taylor

The most beautiful thing in this life cannot be seen, even touched but felt with heart.

The most intimate kiss between two lovers is not the kiss of their lips, but the kiss of their tears.

The most painful love there is. is the love that is left unknown,
A love that cannot be expressed, Affection left un-shown

The one person you can truly love is often right in front of you.

The only genuine love worthy of the name is unconditional. --John Powell

There are many obstacles in life but with love, life's uncertainties are adventures in the making.

There are things in life your eyes will love, but not all will catch your heart.

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

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first. --St. Augustine

There is no fear in Love; but perfect Love casteth out fear.  --The Bible

There is no more pleasure in loving, than in being loved  --T. Fuller

There is no remedy to love but to love more.  --Henry David Thoreau

There's no such thing as too much love - even too much is not enough.

There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, first fluttering of its silken wings. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved  -- George Sand

There's only one thing greater than my fear- that is my love. My love will always conquer my fear- but it can't do it immediately. It needs the full force of my love to do it and it takes days for that to emerge out of its dark hiding places.  --John Middleton Murry

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles fires; so, where absence kills a little love, it fans a great one. -- Francois , duc de La Rochefoucauld

The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze. --Gustav Adolfo Becquer

The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice  --Carolyn Fry

The things we cherish in life are not the things we need, but the things we love.

The truth is that love is buried in your soul, and no relationship with anyone can unearth it or activate it in your life. --Iyanla Vayzant, "In the Meantime"

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

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. H. Chesterton

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.  --Woodrow Wilson

This is the springtime of my loving .. the second season I am to know You are the sunlight in my growing .. so little warmth I've felt before. It isn't hard to feel me glowing .. I watched the fire that grew so low.

Those who give love, gather love

Though weary, love is not tired; Though pressed, it is not straitened; Though alarmed, it is not confounded. Love securely passes through all.  --Thomas A Kempis

Though we may think we know each other well, when we neglect feelings in a relationship, we neglect the deepest and most intimate part of ourselves .. sharing feelings leads us to great closeness because feelings are very personal, the most intimate part of us. The sharing of a deep feeling is the greatest gift a human being can give to another ..  -- Fr. Chuck Gallagher

Through diligent and creative love, a man and a woman can fit like a hand in a glove each finger in its own space, together creating a warm handclasp.

Time will prove my love to you and cement my place in your heart forever. For time will give me the credibility and the believability that I need to convince you to want to spend the rest of your life with me. That I am worthy of such a commitment from you.

'Tis sweet to feel by what fine-spun threads our affections are drawn together. --Lawrence Sterne

To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which man is called. --Albert Schweitzer

To be happy is not to possess much, but to hope and to love much. --Felicite' Robert de Lamennais

To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.  -- Bertrand Russell

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.  --David Viscott M.D.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another -- Gottfried Wilhem Von Leibniz

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven  --Karen Sunde

To love someone is to let them go forever; even if you will die without them. --Amber Murphy

To love someone, when there is no chance of that love ever thriving, that is romance. -- from the television series Dawson's Creek

To meet and to part is the way of life, but to part and to meet is the hope of life.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.  --Stephen R. Covey

Treat your lady like a Queen. Adopt the attitude that you are going to treat her so well that every man that she ever meets pales in comparison. If you ever break up she will forever remember that she is settling for second best. If she stays by your side she will be the envy of all who know her.

True intimacy is the opening of one soul to another.  No gift on earth could compare with it, for it touches us more profoundly than our imagination can envision.  When two people share their lives, freely, openly, without  reservation, it is as if each had become complete. -- Robert Sexton

True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested. -- Ellen G. White

True love can not be expressed in words or deeds, only in time can you show true love.

True Love cannot be found, where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden, where it truly does...

True love can only be expressed when both partners love each other.

True love comes but once. Grab it while you can, for when it will never pass again.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights.

True love doesn't have a happy ending: true love doesn't have an ending

True love endures, if it does not, then it was never true.

True love is knowing a person's faults, and loving them even more for them.

True love is like a butterfly. Once you set it free, it is hard to recapture.

True love is like a rainbow in the sky who always have different colors.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. -- Francois de La Rouchfoucauld

True love is not for a second, but for eternity.

True love is only in the mind... never to be real unless it flows in the heart.

True Love is something eternal .. the  aspect may change .. but not the essence ..

True love is something you feel deep inside, a feeling that you find impossible to hide.

True love is the absence of fear. -- 1 John 4:18

True love is the grandest form of unity.

True love is the strongest  emotion that cannot be broken.

True love is unconditional and everlasting, it is established over time and validated with memories of the past.

True love is when you have to watch a friend leave, with the knowledge that you might never see him again. But you know he'll be in your mind and heart forever...

True love is when you love a person more than you love yourself.

True love is when you love a person with no particular reason.

True love is when you're still dancing, long after the music has stopped.

True Love, like many things, can only be seen in the eyes of the beholder. It cannot be jealous, proud, or anxious; it is what is found in the depths of your heart, and longs only for one who's heart longs for the same things as your own.

True love only comes once in a life time, so take it as it goes and enjoy every bit of it while it is still burning strong.

True love should be lived like an imperfect circle that has its bumps but never ends.

True love will be remembered by all, yet not all will know of true love.

True secret of love - Never demand, always give.

Two love partners, standing firm - together - can accomplish anything the two of them desire. The creative movement of mutual commitment can produce anything. . . joy, peace of mind, more love, great sex, understanding. . . anything! The unity of two, in agreement, does the work of angels. 

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one  -- John Keats

Until I truly loved, I was alone. -- Caroline Norton

Watching you walk out of my life doesn't make me bitter or cynical about love, but it rather makes me wonder; if I so much wanted to be with the wrong one, how wonderful it will be when the right one comes along.

We all love best not those who offend us least,  nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.  -- Samuel Butler

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love -- Goethe

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see a imperfect person perfectly.

We get pretty much what we expect to get in our relationship. What we expect to get is what we focus on. If it turns out good, we should not be disappointed. If it turns out bad, we should not be disappointed. We got what we expected. What else did we expect to get? Perhaps we should learn to be in a relationship with no expectations. In a spirit of unity, only and always work together, all the time, to create the best relationship we can. All the time. With intention. In a spirit of unity. All the time. If we could do that, maybe we wouldn't have to be concerned about expectations when they surface; we would know things were always going to be as good as the people working on them. Perhaps that is why it is important to have a great relationship with ourselves. When we can do a great relationship with ourselves, we can do a great relationship with two people. When we reach that place, we can have a great relationship with someone else because we already know how to be in a great relationship. . . with ourselves!

We love because it's the only true adventure. --Nikki Giovanni

We should all be so lucky to have someone who will never let us go. The ultimate legacy is to leave behind someone who will love you forever. -- from the Television Series Ally McBeal

We've got this great gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it is going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.  -- John Lennon, 1969

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?  -- George Eliot

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

What is love? Love is two vowels, O & E. Love is two consonants, L & V. Love is two fools, you and me.

What's a relationship without a little risk and faith?

What's meant to be will always find a way.

When a “me” and a “you” decide to become a couple, a new entity called “Us” comes into being. " "Practice “Couple Thinking”: View yourself as a member of a couple first. Think of “us” and “we”before “me” and “I.”

When disagreements arise, instead of being impatient, jumping to the wrong conclusions, and running away, stay and  keep talking until you reach the core of the issue. Listen in a nonjudgmental, neutral way, with an open heart. -- Susie and Otto Collins

When I fell in love with you, I knew I had come to the end of a long journey... You are the love I've been searching for all my life. And now that I've found you, I hope to share all my tomorrows with you. 

When I first saw you I was scared to talk to you, when I first talked to you I was scared to touch you, when I first touched you I was scared to kiss you, when I first kissed you I was scared to love you, now that I love you I'm scared to lose you

When in life and love, reach for the moon.  Even if you miss you will land among the stars.

When it comes to Love, there is no formula to show someone you care. Flowers, candies, a home-cooked meal; A hand-made card, even a simple hug; All are wonderful ways, to show someone how much you care

When I was little, I wondered who made rainbows, why flowers opened, why the moon smiled. My world was full of magic and miracles.  When I grew up, I forgot all about that... until now.
Suddenly I'm like a kid again, And my world is full of magic and miracles... all because of you. 

When love and skill work together expect a miracle -- John Ruskin

When love reigns the impossible may be attained. -- Indian Proverb

When relationships are fun they are easier to be appreciated. It takes steady work and a specific intention to have them be that way. It takes commitment, open communications and much love for one another. We must plan to have fun together. Playing and having fun together isn't so much what we do. It's how we feel about who we are with and what we do. 

When the music whispers in your heart & you hear the distant rhythm of a beating drum close your eyes.. listen .. & let the music surround you .. drawing you to it .. then let your heart lead you .. for the music is yours .. the dance is yours .. and the path is yours to follow

When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come sit in that house and sing for joy. --Brahama

When you are in love there are no words to be spoken to describe it. But the heart and the soul know the words and those are the words that mean the most. The unspoken words of Love.

When you experience love for the first time,  real love, you live a new life;  one that you never knew existed before.

When you give someone your heart, you're giving them your life; When you give someone  your soul, you're giving them 'forever'

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out   -- Elizabeth Bowen

Why is it that we spend a lifetime trying to define what love is... what love means... yet we know in an instant if we are in it?

With true love comes no doubts, no jealousy, and no worries.

With a kiss I'll say goodbye and with  tears in my eyes, I speak the words of forgiveness waiting to be yours at the right time!

Within you, I lose myself.  Without you, I find myself Searching to be lost again /// Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again.

With love you can do impossible things if you follow your heart.

You are my friend, my love, my forever valentine.  --Flavia Weddn

You are my love, my life, my world.  --Michelle Lozada

You are the stars at night in all their splendor; You are the daytime at rainbows end. You are my happiness so sweet and tender;   You are my soul mate, my love, and my best friend. --RosaLinda Buchner Graziano

You are the stars in my wishing sky and I will wish on them every night you and I are apart, until we are together again.

You can admire a women for her beauty, but you can only respect and love a women for her heart.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. -- Suzanne Warner Pierot

You do not stumble on a great relationship by accident. You experience it on purpose. It doesn't just happen. A great relationship is developed intentionally. It is created by mutual commitment and by nurturing it with loving thoughts, open communication, the attention given to it, intentional activity and a mutual decision for constructive action. It becomes whatever two love partners decide it to be. It is the result of two dancing hearts being in step with one another; dancing to the same rhythm; connected; communicating words of love in a dance of togetherness

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. -- John Donne

You have my heart, and that's a permanent lock.

You have not truly lived your life, until you've  shared the depths of it with some one you love.

You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. -- Jean Zheng

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. 

You need trust to love, but first you need love in order to trust.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on this wall. --Doug Fetherling

You're the sunshine of my life, Your absence causes a total eclipse of my heart.

Your love is my inspiration; I find the purity of your love in every color I place on canvas. Without your love, they remain merely colors, but with your love, they become the masterpiece of our life together.

Your love keeps discovering new places to take me.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.  --Sarah Bernhardt

You should sing like no ones listening,  dance like no ones watching, and love like its never gonna hurt!

Young lovers seek perfection...old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and seeing beauty in a multitude of patches... -- "How To Make An American Quilt"

You've gotta dance like no one is watching and love like its never going to hurt.

You were that missing piece from my life, and now that I have you I am complete.

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

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