- Collected Love Quotes -

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They are but beggars that can count their worth,
But my true love is grown to such excess,
I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

-William Shakespeare

Pleasant fragrances of the breezes of love blow from the lovers even thought they might conceal it. The effects of these breezes bear witness to them even if they disguise it and are apparent even if they hide it.

-Abu Ali Katib
   
Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.

-John Gay
 
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once
caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense
and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit;
friendship in possession.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are.
Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own
innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they
are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

-John Gray, Ph.D.
 
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

-Johann W. von Goethe

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

-Alex Noble
 
Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me;
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee.

-Robert Herrick
 
Romantic love is a passionate spiritual - emotional - sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

-Nathaniel Branden

How do you spell love when you reach the point where the happiness, security, and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

-Josh McDowell

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals
that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy
of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in our-
selves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight
or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

-E.E. Cummings

Two hearts, two minds, in time did find one love, one aim two paths the same. Hold fast. . . and love will last.

-Matt Buttram

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

-John Lennon

You may wish to be loving. You may even try with all your might. But your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments.

-John Gray

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

-William Shakespeare

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of
friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason -
and indeed all the sweets of life.

-Joseph Addison