Romantic quotes
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“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIII: A Flood of Sunshine
“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
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Variant: Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Source: Les Misérables
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”
Source: Persuasion
“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
“it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.”
“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
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others”
Source: Reported in, "Transform Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Becoming the Person You Want to Be" by Penny Ferguson, p. 167.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 131
“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
Have I Told You Lately
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
“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
“Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.”
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982).
“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.
“To be young is all there is in the world.”
Letter to his future wife Elsie Moll Kachel (21 March 1907); as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 5
Context: To be young is all there is in the world. The rest is nonsense — and cant. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) — but it’s all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing.... Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
“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
