“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Variant: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach
Context: 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.
Context: 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.
“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
“We must be our own before we can be another's.”
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
Source: Mad Love
“With our love, we could save the world.”
“You love life because life's all there is.”
Source: The Last Werewolf
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
Variant: Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Source: To Love and Be Loved
“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”
Source: Beauty Queens
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
Source: Morrie: In His Own Words
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Source: Selected Poems
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Source: Again the Magic
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
Gwendolen, Act III
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
“loving people live in a loving world. hostile people live in a hostile world. same world.”
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
Variant: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2
Source: Annie Hall: Screenplay
“Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.”
Source: Tiger Lily
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…
“Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.”
Source: Head Over Heels
“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
“There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts”
Source: Anna Karenina
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994
“We are in love and meant to be together.”
Source: Something Borrowed
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Misattributed to Confucius since at least 1985; correct origins are dubious, as mentioned in "Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life" at QuoteInvestigator.com (2 September 2014) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/02/job-love/: the oldest English-language use of the proverb has been found in Woolfolk, Ann, "Toshiko Takaezu," Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 83(5), 6 October 1982, p. 32: "Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life." (attributed to Arthur Szathmary, who attributes it, in his turn, to an unnamed source).
Misattributed, Not Chinese
“We need not think alike to love alike.”
This attribution seems to have begun in the 1960s, and has been debunked at "Who really said that?" by Peter Hughes at UU World (15 August 2012) http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/229844.shtml; previously misattributed in A Chosen Faith (1991) by John A. Buehrens; also in Unitarian Universalist Origins: Our Historic Faith by Mark W. Harris https://web.archive.org/web/20060101061859/www.uua.org/info/origins.html
Misattributed
“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3
“You are beautiful and you are alone.”
Afraid
“There are things worth fighting for.”
Rand al'Thor
(15 October 1994)
Have I Told You Lately
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
Cherry Ripe http://www.bartleby.com/106/91.html
Letter to Lady Emerald Cunard, quoted in The Everything Wedding Vows Book : Anything and Everything You Could Possibly Say at the Altar, and then Some. (2001) by Janet Anastasio and Michelle Bevilacqua, p. 97.
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”
Sharon Salzberg in an article in a magazine called “Woman of Power” in 1989
Misattributed
“What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?”
"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
Section 5 : Love and Marriage
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include 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.
“My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
Bernard to Leigh-Cheri, in Phase III, Ch. 46
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
“They always want more — they want more.”
"Human Racing"
Marry Me (2007)
Context: Romeo, where'd you go?
It's been years and still no sign,
But I'm keeping hope alive. Juliet, how you been?
You look like death like you sure could use some rest
from this place human racing and the faces of people who pound at your door
They always want more — they want more.
“Women are meant to be loved and not understood.”
Mumtaz, November, 1970 (Filmfare, December 7, 2011)
Quotes from Mumtaz
Source: Best of Filmfare http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/spicerack.htm
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
“I live with you. I live for you. I live in you.”
Original: Vivo con te. Vivo per te. Vivo di te.
Source: prevale.net
