Valentine's Day quotes
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Source: Selected Poems
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
“Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous”
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”
“There is no escape if love is not there”
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
“When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“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)
“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”
How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The future was not what it used to be.”
Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 156)
“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
Other material for Lily Tomlin
“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
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Thoughts For All Ages http://pbskids.org/rogers/all_ages/thoughts1.htm
“Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
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.
“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Today is Valentine's Day. Or, as men like to call it, extortion day. ”
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”