“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator
Quotes For Her page 2
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
Karl Menninger (1893–1990) American psychiatrist
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
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.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Source: Mad Love
“With our love, we could save the world.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
“The heart wants what the heart wants”
Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City
Source: Summer and the City
“I like you very much. Just as you are.”
Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary
Source: Bridget Jones's Diary
“You love life because life's all there is.”
Glen Duncan (1965) British writer
Source: The Last Werewolf
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
Alanis Morissette (1974) Canadian-American singer-songwriter
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher
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.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Source: Beauty Queens
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Source: Morrie: In His Own Words
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Source: Selected Poems
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Again the Magic
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting
Gwendolen, Act III
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
“loving people live in a loving world. hostile people live in a hostile world. same world.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Choice
Source: The Choice
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving
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
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Source: Annie Hall: Screenplay
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Source: The Age of Innocence
“Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.”
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Source: Tiger Lily
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Carl Sagan book Contact
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
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…
“Happiness is feeling useful to others.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
“Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Head Over Heels
“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
Jane Austen book Love and Freindship
Source: Love and Friendship
“There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Source: Anna Karenina
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
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.”
Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle
Source: Message in a Bottle
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
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.”
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
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.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
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). <br class="br">Misattributed, Not Chinese
“We need not think alike to love alike.”
Ferenc Dávid (1510–1579) Hungarian noble
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 <br class="br">Misattributed
“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”
George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3
“You are beautiful and you are alone.”
Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars
Afraid
“There are things worth fighting for.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Rand al'Thor
(15 October 1994)
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Have I Told You Lately
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) English composer, poet and physician
Cherry Ripe http://www.bartleby.com/106/91.html
George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
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”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
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?”
Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States
"What I Am"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
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.”
Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker
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.”
St. Vincent (musician) (1982) American singer-songwriter
"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 (actress) (1947) Indian film actress
Mumtaz, November, 1970 (Filmfare, December 7, 2011) <br class="br">Quotes from Mumtaz <br class="br">Source: Best of Filmfare http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/spicerack.htm
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
“I live with you. I live for you. I live in you.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Vivo con te. Vivo per te. Vivo di te.
Source: prevale.net