Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
~Josh Billings~
Behind every successful man stands an amazed woman.
~Anon~
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
~Ivan Panin~
The great tragedy of life is not that
men perish, but that they cease to love.
~W. Somerset Maugham~
Love conquers all.
~Unknown~
If I’m such a legend, why am I so lonely?
~Judy Garland~
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
~H. Jackson Brown Jr.~
A goal, a love and a dream give you total
control over your body and your life.
~ John Wayne Schlatter~
Perfect love is rare indeed—for to be a lover will require
that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the
understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
~Leo Buscaglia~
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu~
Love is creation raised to a higher degree.
~Toyohiko Kagawa~
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
One word frees us from the weight and pain
of life; that word is love.
~Sophocles~
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world;
a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
~Dr. Karl Menninger~
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted.
Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of
another’s heart, or its flame burns low.
~Henry Ward Beecher~
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our
embarrassment when alone together
~La Bruyere~
Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
~Ralph Connor~
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing
called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it,
you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
~J. Krishnamurti~
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain~
Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~Comte DeBussy-Rabutin~
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
~ Thomas Fuller ~
