Love Quotes

Love

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. - Charles Morgan

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. - Kahlil Gibran


The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. - Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. - Ovid

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Eric Fromm

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. - Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. - W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

When love is not madness, it is not love. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. - Malagasy Proverb


Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
- Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
- Rosemonde Gerard

Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! - Sandra J. Dykes

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. - Mark Overby

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. - Anonymous

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. - Anonymous

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. - Proverb

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. - Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. - Michael Leunig

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. - Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524

Who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. - Henry David Thoreau

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. - Robert Brault

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. - Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, "Love Story," original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark


Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds.
- Grey Livingston

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. - George Moore

We loved with a love that was more than love. - Edgar Allan Poe

If I love you, what business is it of yours? - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
- Jessie B. Rittenhouse

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. - Quoted by Alexandra Penney in "Self"

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. - Bill Balance

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. - Rose Franken

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. - Ben Hecht


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
- Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. - Swedish Proverb

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. - Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002


Love is no respecter of age or practicality
Neither morality: unabashed
She enters where she will
Unheeding that her immortal fires
Burn up human hearts...
- Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me


Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. - Lord Dewar

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. - Natalie Clifford Barney

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. - Rabindranath Tagore

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. - John Bulwer

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. - Lord Byron


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
- Anonymous

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. - Anonymous, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. - Lynda Barry

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is not singular except in syllable. - Marvin Taylor

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. - John Ciardi

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. - Douglas Yates

Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. - Hannah More

The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. - Terri Guillemets

Ah me! why may not love and life be one? - Henry Timrod

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. - Robert Browning

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. - Leo Tolstoy

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. - Marguerite de Valois

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. - Werner Erhard

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. - Robert Brault

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Love me and the world is mine. - David Reed

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. - Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943

The love game is never called off on account of darkness. - Tom Masson

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. - E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. - David Byrne

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. - Emily Brontë

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. - Portuguese Proverb


Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
- James J. Walker

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. - Honoré de Balzac

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is the poetry of the senses. - Honoré de Balzac

Love is a game that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. - Anonymous

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. - Francis Quarles, Emblems

Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. - Paul-Jean Toulet

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. - Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. - Robert Brault

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. - François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. - Christopher Paul Rubero

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. - Latin Proverb

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
- Charles Hanson Towne

A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. - Nicholas de Chamfort

Love is not consolation. It is light. - Friedrich Nietzsche

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. - Erich Segal

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. - Robert Brault

Loving is never a waste of time. - Astrid Alauda

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. - Fyodor Dostoevski

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. - William Butler Yeats

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Anonymous

Love is what you've been through with somebody. - James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960

Love is being stupid together. - Paul Valery

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. - Charles Baudelaire


Open your heart and take us in,
Love - love and me.
-

On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It's never done. Never. - Jeb Dickerson

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. - Rita Rudner

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. - Charles du Bos


I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
- Pixie Foudre


What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. - William Carlos Williams

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. - Sylvester Stallone


Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
- Gilbert Parker

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. - Blaise Pascal, "Pensées," 1670

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. - William Shakespeare

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. - Bruce Lee

Life only starts when love comes. - From the movie "Bill of Divorcement," 1932


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. - George Jean Nathan

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. - French Proverb

True love stories never have endings. - Richard Bach

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. - Robert Brault

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. - Antonio Porchia, "Voces," 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match. - Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle

Platonic love is love from the neck up. - Thyra Smater Winsolow

The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love. - A.C. Van Cherub

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. - Margaret Atwood

You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. - Anonymous, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. - Robert Brault

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. - John Milton

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. - V.F. Calverton

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. - Anonymous, sometimes attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. - Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, "The Story of Us"

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate
My sole mate 'tis my soul mate.
- Pixie Foudre

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. - Pablo Picasso

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye," 1945

Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. - Anonymous

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. - Pearl Bailey, singer

Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. - Terri Guillemets

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. - Robert Brault

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. - Germaine Greer

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. - W. Somerset Maugham

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. - Anonymous

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. - William Shakespeare

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. - Rabindranath Tagore

Love is metaphysical gravity. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is my religion - I could die for it. -  John Keats

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. - Dan Greenburg

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Anonymous

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. - Anonymous

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? - Anonymous

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. - Anonymous

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. - Kay Knudsen

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. - Henry Louis Mencken

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. - Anonymous

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. - Anonymous

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. - Anonymous

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. - Anonymous

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. - Anonymous

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. - Anonymous

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. - Thomas Merton

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. - Julins Gordon

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. - Anonymous

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes


Today's Multiple Choice Thought

There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden
d. all of the above.


I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. - Robert Brault

It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. - Anonymous

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"


Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
- Grey Livingston

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Come live in my heart and pay no rent. - Samuel Lover

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. - Lisa Simpson, "The Simpsons" cartoon show

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. - Emma Goldman, "The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation"

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. - St. Thomas Moore

Love isn't blind, it's retarded. - Don Foster and Susan Beavers, "Two and a Half Men"  comedy TV show

Free love? As if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. - Emma Goldman, "Marriage and Love"

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. - Michel de Montaigne

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. - Javan

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. - Armistead Maupin, "Maybe the Moon"

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. - Francesca M. Cancian

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. - Anonymous

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. - Claudia Ghandi

Falling in love is so hard on the knees. - Aerosmith, rock music group

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. - Hans Nouwens

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. - Marcel Proust, "Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain," 1922

In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.  - Terri Guillemets


The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. - G.K. Chesterton

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. - Bill Watterson, "Calvin & Hobbes" cartoon strip

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. - George Bernard Shaw

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. - Edward Thomas

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. - Nora Ephron, "When Harry Met Sally" movie

Friendship Quotes

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Friendship Quotes

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. - Douglas Pagels

In my friend, I find a second self. - Isabel Norton

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. - Anonymous

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glasgow

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. - Sicilian Proverb

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. - Aristotle

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friends stab you in the front. - Oscar Wilde

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. - Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. - Epicurus

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. - Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. - Anonymous

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold Glasow


But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. - Pam Brown

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. - George Santayana

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Donna Roberts

If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. - Terri Guillemets

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. - Dave Tyson Gentry

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. - Laurence J. Peter

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. - Anonymous

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. - Grace Pulpit

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. - D.H. Lawrence

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. - Dorothy Parker

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. - Virginia Woolf

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. - Anonymous

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. - Anonymous

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. - Anonymous

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. - Anonymous

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. - Toni Morrison, "Beloved"

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. - Robert Brault

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. - Plautus

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. - Anonymous

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. - Margaret Lee Runbeck, "Answer Without Ceasing"


Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
- Emily Brontë


Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. - Robert Brault

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Wisdom of the Sands," translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. - Abraham Lincoln

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. - Jeanette Winterson, "Written on the Body," 1992

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. - John Leonard

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. - Henri Nouwen

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. - American Proverb

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate

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A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. - Attributed to Heather Pryor

Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. - Shirley Maclaine

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend. - Robert Brault

Friendship is Love, without his wings. - Lord Byron, L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. - Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse. - Dodinsky

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. - Thomas Jefferson

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. - Lois Wyse

The best time to make friends is before you need them. - Ethel Barrymore

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. - Katherine Mansfield

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. - Frances Ward Weller

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. - Diana Cortes

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. - Anonymous

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. - Anonymous

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. - Barbara Kingsolver

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. - E.W. Howe

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. - Edith Wharton

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. - Robert Brault

'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. - Benjamin Franklin

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. - Anonymous

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. - Alice Duer Miller

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. - Anäis Nin

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. - Eustache Deschamps

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. - Emil Ludwig

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. - Samuel Pepys

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian Proverb

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. - Sarah Orne Jewett

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. - Blaise Pascal

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. - Robert Brault

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. - Francesco Guicciardini

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. - Gwyneth Paltrow

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. - Dag Hammarskjold

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas A. Edison

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. - William Hazlitt

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. - David Storey

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Mencius

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. - William Penn

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George MacDonald

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The Right Girl Or Guy For You

You are dating a new guy and he seems to be perfect for you. But how do you know if he is Mr. Right? You are falling in love and you are hoping that he is finally the right guy. So, how do you really know that you are dating Mr. Right? Are there signs that he is Mr. Right?

Your instincts can be your best friend. The moment you meet someone, you will often know that there is something special about them, right? If you are really lucky in love, you may even experience that “eyes meeting across the room” feeling. It’s not sexual attraction, but you know it goes deeper than that.

Your intuition tells you that there is some link between you and this person, and it really feels like you already know them. You have felt this way with people who ended up being your great friends.

This certain feeling has been described by people who have met their soul mates. However, a soul mate does not necessarily mean that he is the right life partner for you. Soul mates can be a part of your family, your best friends, or your partner.

But how to know if is he is Mr. Right when intuition alone is not enough? Maybe, he is not available anymore, or maybe he is not interested in you at all. Be friendly and accept the situation as it may be. Getting to know him may be for some other purpose in your life.

If he is the right guy for you, then getting together should be a whole lot easier. You will find everything falling into place as if it was “meant to be”. Obstacles will be easily overcome.

However, if you meet the right person at the wrong time, there is no smoothness and the relationship is a bit difficult. When this happens, it is much better to let him go. If he is your Mr. Right, he will come back into your life again later, when it is the right time for both of you.

If you are dating Mr. Right, you will know that both of you will easily fall in love with each other. But you should also look beyond the overwhelming emotions of love and consider if you are willing to live with this person for the rest of your life. If you find it hard to imagine living with him for all your life, then think about it, is he really your Mr. Right?

Having common interests is also a good thing. If he is Mr. Right, you will know it. You will find that both of you have the same hopes, dreams and expectations of life. You get along really good, and also with each other’s family as well. As I have said, the relationship is smooth, and everything seems to just fall into place.

That is how you will know that he is Mr. Right!

Nice Sweet Love Letters - Funnly love letter

To ,
Tintumol
UKG A.

Dear Tintumol,

I love you. My dream I see you. Everywhere you. You no, I live no.
I come red shirt 2morrow. You love I, you come red frock. I wait down
mango tree. You no come, i jump train. Sure come...

yours lovely,
Tutumon
Std 1 B

************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* *

Reply....by Tintumol....

Darling, your letter mama see. Papa beat me beat me so many beat me.
I cry. i cry. So no come to mango tree. No jump train. I love you.
See another day. I no red frock. Only green.

You love me, you love me you green shirt. Give I gift. I see you with pinkumol.
Where you go.. NO talk to her. Okay My dream also only you


Lovely
Tintumol...

A Small Cute Love Story

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her. The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.

The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl. The girl gave him all her sweets as she had promised.

That night, the girl slept peacefully. But the boy couldn't sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some sweets from him the way he had hidden his best marble.

Moral of the story: I f you don't give your hundred percent in a relationship, you'll always keep doubting if the other person has given his/her hundred percent.. This is applicable for any relationship Give your hundred percent to everything you do and sleep peacefully

Valentine Day: Special Quotes you can use for someone special

Now this is next part of the valentines day love quotes series. In this post I am writing few love idioms that you can use this valentine day and later of course to express you love, feelings, care etc to someone you love.

All's fair in love and war.
Something that you say which means behaviour that is unpleasant or not fair is acceptable during an argument or competition. We weren't cheating, we were just playing to win. Anyway, all's fair in love and war.

Be head over heels (in love)
to be in love with someone very much, especially at the beginning of a relationship. It's obvious that they're head over heels in love with each other.

Fall head over heels (in love)
To be in love with someone very much, especially at the beginning of a relationship. As soon as we met we fell head over heels in love. I fell head over heels in love with Simon on our first date.

Love handles (humorous)
A layer of extra fat around the middle of a person's body. You wouldn't want me to lose my love handles, would you?

The love of your life (humorous)
The person that you love most in all your life. And there I was, watching the love of my life board a plane to go to the other side of the world.

Love at first sight
An immediate, strong attraction for someone you just met. She took an immediate liking to him – it was love at first sight.

Fall in love (with someone)
To begin to love someone. The movie tells the story of a country doctor who falls in love with a beautiful waitress.

Nice Love quotes: Best Quotes on friendship

HI all,

Below are the some of the most unforgettable love and friendship quotes. just enjoy these nice love quotes and share them with your friends with friendship wallpapers




Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.



The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.



The brightest future will always be based upon a forgotten past, you can’t go well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.



Let these words not only touch your eyes, let them travel through your soul and let them rest in your heart as your rest in mine.



Always remember that in some way or other you are somebody’s angel, even if you don’t know it.




Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.



As long as we have memories, yesterday remains, as long as we have hope tomorrow awaits, as long as we have friendship, each day is never a waste



Don’t say we aren’t right for each other, the way I see it we are not right for anybody else.

Cute story with a beautiful thought : Care for those you love

Just a thought ....
A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"

DAD: "Yeah sure, what is it?" replied the man.

SON: "Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"

DAD: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?" the man said angrily.

SON: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?"

DAD: "If you must know, I make Rs.100 an hour."

SON: "Oh," the little boy replied, with his head down.

SON: "Daddy, may I please borrow Rs.50?"

The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior."

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?

After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that Rs.50 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.


"Are you asleep, son?" He asked.

"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.

"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier" said the man.

"It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the Rs.50 you asked for."

The little boy sat straight up, smiling. "Oh, thank you daddy!" He yelled.

Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.

The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

"Why do you want more money if you already have some?" the father grumbled.

"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied.

" Daddy, I have Rs. 100 now. Can I buy an hour of your time?

Please come home early tomorrow I would like to have dinner with you"

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness.

It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.

Do remember to share that Rs.100 worth of your time with someone you love or somebody who loves you.

If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days.


But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family.

Always find time to spend with Ur loved ones even when u r busy... because one day u will find time but not Ur loved ones...

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.

So love the people who treat you right..Forget about the one's who don't.

Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.

If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it!


Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away.
Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong.
Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late.
I don't want to let that happen so I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.

valentine day love story : cute love story love has no reason

Lady: Why do you like me..? Why do you love me?


Man : I can't tell the reason. But I really like you...


Lady : You can't even tell me the reason... how can you say you like me? How can you say you love me?


Man : I really don't know the reason, but I can prove that I love you.


Lady : Proof? No! I want you to tell me the reason. My friend's boyfriend can tell her why he loves her but not you!


Man : Ok..ok!!! Erm... because you are beautiful,


because your voice is sweet,

because you are caring,

because you are loving,

because you are thoughtful,

because of your smile,

because of your every movements.

The lady felt very satisfied with the man's answer.


********

Unfortunately, a few days later, the Lady met with an accident and went into the coma stage.

The Guy then placed a letter by her side, and here is the content:



Darling,

Because of your sweet voice that I love you...Now can you talk? No! Therefore I cannot love you.

Because of your care and concern that I like you...Now that you cannot show them, therefore I cannot love you.

Because of your smile, because of your every movement that I love you...Now can you smile? Now can you move?

No, therefore, I cannot love you.

If love needs a reason, like now, there is no reason for me to love you anymore.

Does love need a reason? NO!

Therefore, I still love you...And love doesn't need a reason


With love always,

Forever yours.

*******

Relationships are hard to handle......might even seem impossible at times.
There will be many fights and many quarrels,

many disagreements and many tears.....

The easiest thing would be to give up.

But if we spent half the energy we use in fighting with each other,

and spend that energy in fighting to keep the relationship strong, then that is love……

Remember, in a relationship, giving up is not the solution Disagreements, fights and quarrels will always be there.

But you must always fight harder to stay together.

Some fights are truly worth fighting!

Valentine day and month of love and romance

Its February the month of love and romance: Its love and valentine day all overs all are planning and askin other froends about there plans on valentine day like valentine day date, valentine day greetings, valentine day gifts.

You would like to read more about valentine day at : valentine day gifts and quotes


Learn the history of Valentine's Day

Love life vs Married life : Love and marriage

Love is holding hands in the street.
Marriage is holding arguments in the street.

Love is cuddling on a sofa.
Marriage is one of them sleeping on a sofa.

Love is talking about having children.
Marriage is talking about getting away from children.

Love is going to bed early.
Marriage is going to sleep early.

Love is losing your appetite.
Marriage is losing your figure.

Love is sweet nothing in the ear.
Marriage is sweet nothing in the bank.

TV has no place in love.
Marriage is a fight for remote control.

Love is 1 drink and 2 straws.
Marriage is "Don't you think you've had enough!".

Conclusion: "Love is blind , Marriage is an eye opener!"

Types of love : Learn with pics

And final one Ultimate love ;)

Love : What is Love ?

Love is like wet cement
the longer you stand in it
the harder it is to get out!

*The worst way to miss/Love someone is to have them standing right next to you and know you can't have them. *

*The hardest thing in life is to watch the one you love, love someone else.*

"Love me now, love me never,
but if you love me, love me forever."

Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.

I tell her everything, but why cant I tell her she means everything?



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Tragic love story or tragedy of social network sites

A tragic love story: Flourished on Orkut, died in a bullet

Orkut is in news again and this time due to the tragic death of Koushambi Layek who was murdered by her lover Manish Thakur, with whom she had developed relations on orkut.com. This incident again points towards the hazards of social networking.

WHEN EVERY BIG business house is running a business of social networking website, orkut.com owned by Google continues to be in the centre of controversy for one wrong reason or another. This time Orkut finds itself in the midst of a murder mystery. The reason for murder is believed to be failed love which developed on Orkut.

This love story started in the AC three tier compartment. The accused Manish Thakur, a resident of Bashdroni in West Bengal, was on his way to Thiruvantapuram where he met Koushambi Layek who was on her way to the training centre of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The relation gradually evolved through scrapping on Orkut. After some time Koushambi discovered that Manish was married. Heartbroken she ended her relation with him, but was threatened by Manish again and again. Koushambi confided to her parents about the incidence and they tried to sort out the problem by talking with Manish.

Unfortunately the talks did not help and the police discovered her dead body in Mumbai's Sun-a-Sheel hotel's room number 202. After a thorough investigation it was found that Manish had killed her by his service revolver.

Manish, who works with the coast guard, has been arrested. Police sources confirm about taking him to Mumbai today.

Meanwhile Manish's and Koushambi's profiles have drawn thousands of visitors in the past two days on orkut. There has been a formation of two communities in the name 'Tribute to Koushambi Layek' and 'Koushambi cry for Justice'. The number of registered members in these two communities is increasing rapidly. Many visitors are also visiting Manish's profile to express strong reactions.

It perhaps will not be a very good idea to blame this social networking website. But this incident definitely shows the flipside of social networking on the Internet and the best thing one can do is be careful while using it in order to avoid unpleasant incidents and such mishaps.



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" The past cannot be erased and regrets may surface but the pen of the future is yours to be held; to draw a beautiful life ahead."

When God Takes Away SoMething FroM Your Hand,
Dont Think He Is Punishing You,
But He Is Merely Emptying Your Hand
For You To Receive SoMething Better...

Friendship Is Not A Business
Where You Give When You Get,
It Is A Beautiful Feel For SoMeone
Where You Love To Give Even If You Dont Get