Love is blind; Friendship closes its eyes. --Unknown
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut. --C.S. Lewis
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. --Unknown
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Theresa
There's the people you've known forever. Who like...know you...in this way. That other people can't. Because they've seen you change. They've let you change. --Angela, My So-Called Life
Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow. --Swedish proverb
The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be--and when they're not, we cry. --David Duchovny
Your approval is neither required nor desired. But I will take your acceptance. --Vita Bohem
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all. --Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. --Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed. --Sara Teasdale
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. --William Shakespeare
No one needs love more than someone who doesn't deserve it. --Anonymous
No one can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of a friend until he is unhappy. --Thomas Fuller
Friendship involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. --Thomas Hughes
We have something special that no one, no distance, no time can take away...we have each other. --Andrew Tawney
The reward for love is the experience of loving. --John LeCarre
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. --Homer
Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor.
When love is not madness, it is not love. --Spanish proverb
Love is what still goes on when you're not horny. --Robert A. Heinlein
Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one--neglect. --Andrew Carnegie
These violent delights have violent ends. --William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. --Samuel Osgood
It bears all things, believes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. --1 Corinthians, 13:7-8
So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. --1 Corinthians, 13:13
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down.
White hairs or not, you can still be a lover. --Goethe
Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced. --Henry David Thoreau
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. --Antonio Porchia
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. --C.S. Lewis
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. --Francois Sagan
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. --Theodore Hesburgh
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. --Mason Cooley
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I. --Montaigne
Of my friends I am the only one I have left. --Terence
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? --Abraham Lincoln
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. --Woodrow Wilson
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. --George Jean Nathan
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. --Bertrand Russel
But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little Boy and his Bear will always be playing. -- Winnie-the-Pooh
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first...when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. --Paramahansa Yogananda
We love without reason, and without reason we hate. --Jean-Francois Reynard
Hell, madame, is to love no longer. --Georges Bernanos
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. --Christian Morgenstern
Make yourself necessary to somebody. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come. --Unknown
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. --Joan Crawford
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. --Rollo May
Anyone can hate. It costs to love. --John Williamson
Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you. --Unknown
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. --Robert C. Edwards
'Tis not love's going hurts my days,
but that it went in little ways. --Edna St. Vincent Millay
Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' --Erich Fromm
Where there is love, there is pain. --Spanish proverb
There is so little difference between husbands that you might as well keep the first. --Adela Rogers St. John
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. --Rainer Maria Rilke
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. --Francois Mauriac
I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved. --Loren Eiseley
The heart that has truly loved never forgets
But as truly loves on to the close. --Thomas More
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. --Beaumarchais
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. --V. Putnam
In the act of loving someone you arm them against you. --Anonymous
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. --La Rouchefoucauld
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life. --Albert Camus
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. --Spike Milligan
Follow your heart, and you perish. --Margaret Laurence
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. --Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. --Rupert Brooke
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. --Benjamin Disraeli
You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall. --Unknown
Love is the fire of life; it either consumes or purifies. --Unknown
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. --Freud
But it was all about him. His beliefs, his thoughts, aches and loves, his fucking *soul* permeated every thought she made, conscious or unconscious. Bound together by some exquisitely torturous connection, neither had ever been able to walk away when the pain got too strong. --Meredith, Backhand
Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love. --Antiphanes
Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow. --V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind
It is impossible to love and be wise. --Francis Bacon
The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. --Gustavo Adolfo Bacquer
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. --Karen Casey
The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. --G.K. Chesterton
We never touch but at points. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want. --Noel Coward