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Mencintaimu setulus hati, mengarungi lautan untuk mendapatkan cinta suci. Tak akan pernah menduakanmu walaupun terpisah jarak dan perbedaan.

Kutahu kau mencintaiku saat kulihat binar matamu bersinar saat menatapku, teduh dan hangat. Kutahu kaulah tempatku bersandar dan berlindung.

Saat mentari datang, aku lihat wajahmu pada bening embun yang menggantung di dedaunan. Saat itulah aku merasa lebih cinta lagi pada dirimu.

Sejak pertama bertemu, ada getar di hati walau hanya sekejap. Saat saling mengenal telah membingkai kenangan manis. Meski tak bisa bersama tapi bayangmu menghiasi hari-hariku. Meskipun jarak memisahkan tapi rasa sayang tetap ada walau hanya di hati saja.

Untuk apa bicara cinta, jika hatimu tak terbuka. Untuk apa bicara cinta, jika matamu tak bercahaya. Untuk apa bicara cinta, jika hanya membuatmu menderita. Bagiku, dirimu adalah SANG CINTA

Aku ingin dekat dirimu. Sampai tak ada jarak yang memisahkan. Sampai bercampur tetes air mata bahagia, sampai selamanya.

Saat pertama kali bertemu, dirimu selalu hadir dalam hatiku. Waktu berjalan bersama bayangmu, inginnya selalu dekat denganmu.

Cinta adalah saling memiliki. Kasih sayang adalah saling memberi. Cinta adalah kejujuran. Mencintai bukan untuk saling mengkhianati.

Hari hujan, lihatlah ke luar jendela. Coba hitung titik air yang jatuh dari langit, sebanyak itulah aku merindukanmu.

Seandainya bisa, aku ingin menulis nama kamu di bintang. Agar semua orang tahu, bahwa aku sangat mencintaimu.

Janganlah mencintai seseorang seperti bunga, karena bunga mati kala musim berganti. Cintailah mereka seperti sungai, karena sungai mengalir selamanya.

Cinta tak harus berakhir bahagia. Karena cinta tidak harus berakhir.

Cintai BAHAGIA karena dia membuatmu ceria, tapi cintai juga SEDIH karena dia membuatmu dewasa..

Cinta sejati adalah ketika dia mencintai orang lain, dan kamu masih mampu tersenyum, sambil berkata: aku turut bahagia untukmu.

Perasaan cinta itu dimulai dari mata, sedangkan rasa suka dimulai dari telinga. Jadi jika kamu mahu berhenti menyukai seseorang, cukup dengan menutup telinga. Tapi apabila kamu Coba menutup matamu dari orang yang kamu cintai, cinta itu berubah menjadi titisan air mata dan terus tinggal dihatimu dalam jarak waktu yang cukup lama.

Cinta…
Jika anda memilikinya, anda tidak memerlukan sesuatu pun yang lain
Dan jika anda tidak memilikinya, apa pun yang lain yang anda miliki tidak banyak berarti

Jangan simpan kata-kata cinta pada orang yang tersayang sehingga dia meninggal dunia , lantaran akhirnya kamu terpaksa catatkan kata-kata cinta itu pada pusaranya . Sebaliknya ucapkan kata-kata cinta yang tersimpan dibenakmu itu sekarang selagi ada hayatnya.

Cinta bukan mengajar kita lemah, tetapi membangkitkan kekuatan. Cinta bukan mengajar kita menghinakan diri, tetapi menghembuskan kegagahan. Cinta bukan melemahkan semangat, tetapi membangkitkan semangat.

Cinta tidak dapat dipaksakan
Cinta tidak dapat dibujuk dan digoda
Cinta muncul dari Surga tanpa topeng dan tanpa dicari

Jangan sesekali mengucapkan selamat tinggal jika kamu masih mau mencoba. Jangan sesekali menyerah jika kamu masih merasa sanggup. Jangan sesekali mengatakan kamu tidak mencintainya lagi jika kamu masih tidak dapat melupakannya.

Jika kita mencintai seseorang, kita akan sentiasa mendoakannya walaupun dia tidak berada disisi kita.

Cinta dapat mengubah pahit menjadi manis, debu beralih emas, keruh menjadi bening, sakit menjadi sembuh, penjara menjadi telaga, derita menjadi nikmat, dan kemarahan menjadi rahmat.

Cinta yang dikaitkan dengan kepentingan pribadi akan berubah menjadi putus asa.

Cinta bukanlah dari kata-kata tetapi dari segumpal keinginan diberi pada hati yang memerlukan.

Cinta pertama adalah kenangan, Cinta kedua adalah pelajaran, dan cinta yang seterusnya adalah satu keperluan karena hidup tanpa cinta bagaikan masakan tanpa garam. Karena itu jagalah cinta yang dianugerahkan itu sebaik-baiknya agar ia terus mekar dan wangi sepanjang musim.

Tangisan bukanlah pengobat cinta karena ia tidak mengerti perjalanan hati nurani.

Siapapun pandai menghayati cinta, tapi tak seorangpun pandai menilai cinta karena cinta bukanlah suatu objek yang bisa dilihat oleh kasat mata, sebaliknya cinta hanya dapat dirasakan melalui hati dan perasaan.

Cinta yang suci dapat dilihat dari pengorbanan seseorang, bukanlah dari pemberian semata.

Hidup tanpa cinta seperti makanan tanpa garam. Oleh karena itu, kejarlah cinta seperti kau mengejar waktu dan apabila kau sudah mendapat cinta itu, jagalah ia seperti kau menjaga dirimu. Sesungguhnya cinta itu karunia Tuhan Yang Maha Esa.

Dalam sebuah percintaan, janganlah kamu sesali perpisahan tetapi sesalilah pertemuan. Karena tanpa pertemua tidak akan ada perpisahan.

Ibaratkanlah kehilangan cinta itu seumpama hilangnya cincin permata di lautan luas yang tiada bertepi dan harus dilupakan.

Cinta sebenarnya tidak buta. Cinta adalah sesuatu yang murni, luhur dan diperlukan. Yang buta adalah bila cinta itu menguasai dirimu tanpa suatu pertimbangan.

Memberikan seluruh cintamu kepada seseorang bukanlah jaminan dia akan membalas cintamu, jangan mengharapkan balasan cinta, tunggulah sampai cinta berkembang dihatinya, tetapi jika tidak, berbahagialah karena cinta tumbuh dihatimu.

Cinta tidak selalu bersama jodoh, tapi jodoh selalu bersama cinta.

Cinta lebih mudah mekar dihati yang sedang dilanda kecewa, cinta seperti ini adalah cinta yang mengharapkan belas kasihan, oleh karena itu, bila sepi telah punah maka biasanya cinta juga akan turut terbang.

Cinta dimulai dengan senyuman, tumbuh dengan dekapan dan seringkali berakhir dengan air mata.

Sungguh menyakitkan mencintai seseorang yang tidak mencintaimu, tetapi lebih menyakitkan adalah mencintai seseorang dan kamu tidak pernah memiliki keberanian untuk menyatakan cintamu kepadanya.

Hal yang menyedihkan dalam hidup adalah ketika kamu bertemu seseorang yang sangat berarti bagimu. Hanya untuk menemukan bahawa pada akhirnya menjadi tidak bererti dan kamu harus membiarkannya pergi.

Kamu tahu bahwa kamu sangat merindukan seseorang, ketika kamu memikirkannya hatimu hancur berkeping. Dan hanya dengan mendengar kata “Hai”darinya, dapat menyatukan kembali kepingan hati tersebut.

Kadangkala kamu tidak menghargai orang yang mencintai kamu sepenuh hati, sehinggalah kamu kehilangannya. Pada saat itu, tiada guna sesalan karena perginya tanpa berpatah lagi.

Cinta tidak pernah meminta, ia sentiasa memberi, cinta membawa penderitaan, tetapi tidak pernah berdendam, tak pernah membalas dendam. Di mana ada cinta di situ ada kehidupan; manakala kebencian membawa kepada kemusnahan.

Jangan mencintai seseorang seperti bunga, kerana bunga mati kala musim berganti. Cintailah mereka seperti sungai, kerana sungai mengalir selamanya.

Permulaan cinta adalah membiarkan orang yang kamu cintai menjadi dirinya sendiri, dan tidak merubahnya menjadi gambaran yang kamu inginkan. Jika tidak, kamu hanya mencintai pantulan diri sendiri yang kamu temukan di dalam dirinya.

Cinta mampu melunakkan besi, menghancurkan batu, membangkitkan yang mati dan meniupkan kehidupan padanya serta membuat budak menjadi pemimpin. Inilah dasyatnya cinta !

Kata-kata cinta yang lahir hanya sekadar di bibir dan bukannya di hati mampu melumatkan seluruh jiwa raga, manakala kata-kata cinta yang lahir dari hati yang ikhlas mampu untuk mengubati segala luka di hati orang yang mendengarnya.

Kamu tidak pernah tahu bila kamu akan jatuh cinta. namun apabila sampai saatnya itu, raihlah dengan kedua tanganmu,dan jangan biarkan dia pergi dengan sejuta rasa tanda tanya dihatinya.

Cinta bukanlah kata murah dan lumrah dituturkan dari mulut ke mulut tetapi cinta adalah anugerah Tuhan yang indah dan suci jika manusia dapat menilai kesuciannya.

Bukan laut namanya jika airnya tidak berombak. Bukan cinta namanya jika perasaan tidak pernah terluka. Bukan kekasih namanya jika hatinya tidak pernah merindu dan cemburu.

Bercinta memang mudah. Untuk dicintai juga memang mudah. Tapi untuk dicintai oleh orang yang kita cintai itulah yang sukar diperoleh.

Satu-satunya cara agar kita memperolehi kasih sayang, ialah jangan menuntut agar kita dicintai, tetapi mulailah memberi kasih sayang kepada orang lain tanpa mengharapkan balasan.

Jika kamu mengerti seperti apa cinta yang tulus, cintailah aku seperti itu. Jangan lebih, sebab hanya cinta seperti itu yang kubutuh.
Jika kamu mengerti seperti apa kasih suci itu, kasihilah diriku, seputih kasih itu, karena hanya putih kasihmu yang kumau.
Jika memang benar kau dan aku ditakdirkan bersatu, maka takkan ada satupun yang bisa memisahkan kita.

Hal terberat yang kita lakukan adalah melihat orang yang kita cintai mencintai orang lain.

Hanya diperlukan waktu semenit untuk menafsir seseorang, sejam untuk menyukai seseorang dan sehari untuk mencintai seseorang, tetapi diperlukan waktu seumur hidup untuk melupakan seseorang.

Rasa cinta akan semakin terasa ketika kita kehilangan dan sadar bahwa betapa kita telah menyia-nyiakannya.

Aku mencintaimu kekasihku, sebelum kita berdekatan, sejak pertama kulihat engkau. Aku tahu ini adalah takdir. Kita akan selalu bersama dan tidak akan ada yang memisahkan kita.

Cinta adalah tamu yang selalu datang tanpa undangan tapi kepergiannya tidak pernah diharapkan. Dan sesungguhnya hati akan merasa memiliki cinta apabila cinta itu telah pergi.

Cintailah orang yang kau cintai sekedarnya saja siapa tahu pada suatu hari kelak ia akan berbalik menjadi orang yang kau benci dan bencilah orang yang kau benci sekedarnya saja siapa tahu pada suatu hari kelak ia akan menjadi orang yang kau cintai.

Satu-satunya tujuan dalam suatu hubungan adalah belajar bagaimana kita dapat menjadi manusia yang mencinta.

Ketika cinta memanggilmu maka dekatilah dia walau jalannya terjal berliku, jika cinta memelukmu maka dekaplah ia walau pedang di sela-sela sayapnya melukaimu. (Kahlil Gibran)

Jatuh cinta adalah hal yang mudah, memeliharanya pun tak sulit, kesepian manusia sudah cukup menjadi penyebabnya. Yang sulit dicari adalah teman yang kehadirannya terus menerus menjadikan dia orang yang terus diinginkan. (Anna Loise Strong)

Aku mencintaimu bukan karena dirimu, tetapi dikarenakan bagaimana aku ketika bersamamu. (Roy Croft)

Aku tidak pernah tahu bagaimana cara memuja sampai aku mengetahui bagaimana cara mencinta. (Henry Word Beercher)

Dengan sentuhan cinta setiap orang menjadi penyair. (Plato)

Jika Anda bisa membuat orang lain tertawa, maka Anda akan mendapatkan semua cinta yang Anda inginkan. (Art Buchwald)

Cinta bukanlah sumber kebahagiaan tetapi ketiadaan adalah sumber kesedihan. (Russel)

Ketika kekuatan akan cinta melebihi kecintaan akan kekuasaan, maka dunia pun menemukan kedamaian. (Jimi Hendrix)

Mencintai artinya berbagi kebahagiaan demi kebahagiaan orang yang kita cintai. (GW Von Leibnitz)

Kebahagiaan utama dalam hidup adalah keyakinan bahwa kita dicintai. (Victor Huo)

Kita dibentuk dan diperindah oleh apa yang kita cintai. (Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe)

Usia tidak melindungi anda dari cinta, tetapi cinta melindungi anda dari usia. (Jeanne Moureau)






tenang....ini versi bahasa inggrisnya...

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


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


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


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


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. ~Author Unknown


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. ~Author Unknown


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, www.robertbrault.com


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


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)"
(Thanks, Krystel)


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, www.originals.net


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.
~Author Unknown


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. ~Author unknown, 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


If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. ~Cher


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 (Thanks, Steven)


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


A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. ~Mother Teresa


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, www.robertbrault.com


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 (Thanks, Katherine!)


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


I don't think you can keep someone you truly love at arm's length on purpose, they'll always end up in your arms. ~Holly Nichole Miller


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. ~Author Unknown


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, www.robertbrault.com


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


Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. ~Amrit Desai


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, www.robertbrault.com


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


Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ~Elinor Glyn


True love, to whom my heart is prey,
How dost thou hold me in thy sway,
That in each day I find no fault
But daily wait for love's assault.
~Pernette du Guillet


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


Smiles escape from clouds above and angels ring a chorus of your love. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet


You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ~Author Unknown


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.
~W.E. Henley


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, www.howtomatter.com


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


Fall not in love therefore; it will stick to your face. ~Tony Hendra, "Deteriorata"


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


Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ~D.H. Lawrence


Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. ~Cathy Carlyle


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 (Thanks, Bonnie)


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, www.robertbrault.com


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


Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart. ~Ken Keyes


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu


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. ~Author unknown, 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, www.robertbrault.com


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. ~Author unknown, 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


Love is a Mystery. You can't find it; it has to find you. ~Author Unknown


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


Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love. ~Silent Lotus


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. ~Author Unknown


You see, I'd never stopped to wonder why it was that millions of boys all over creation weren't seeing her and instantly falling in love with her, worshipping her body and mind and soul and spirit as I did. It never occurred to me until this precise moment that maybe lots of boys wouldn't have thought she was gorgeous. Maybe she only seemed so gorgeous to me because - and this is the shocker - her face came alive when I walked in front of it. ~Author Unknown (I got this from a magazine story years ago but then lost the magazine - anyone know the attribution?)


Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey


Love is how you earn your wings. ~Karen Goldman


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, www.robertbrault.com


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're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love. ~Robert Fulghum, True Love


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


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


There's no denying that the only real unhappiness in life is losing a man.... Death isn't nature's greatest mistake - falling in love is. If we didn't do that, all the misery in life would be cut right out of it. Oh my goodness, so would all the fun. So, what are you gonna do about it. ~When Ladies Meet, 1941 movie written by Rachel Crothers, John Meehan, Leon Gordon, S.K. Lauren, and Anita Loos, spoken by the character Bridgie Drake (not sure if this is also in the 1933 movie or 1932 play - anyone know?)


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


Love is why I came here in the first place. ~John Denver


Your love has gone all through my body
like honey in water,
as a drug is mixed into spices,
as water is mingled with wine....
~Author Unknown


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. ~Author Unknown


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. ~Author Unknown


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown


Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown


A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


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


Love knows no answer for it does not question. ~Silent Lotus


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. ~Author Unknown


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. ~Author Unknown


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


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


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown


Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown


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


And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time. ~D.H. Lawrence


To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown


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


Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


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, www.robertbrault.com


I am so tired - so tired.
I see too many people,
Read too many books.
Do too many things.
I hate the theaters,
I hate my work,
I want you, - only you....
Come to me between the cool sheets
And let me burrow my head in your shoulder....
~Pauline Cohn, "Rest"


It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown


I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me. ~Amanda Bynes


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


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


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. ~Thomas Moore


Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men


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 (Thanks, David)


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. ~Author Unknown


A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb


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


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


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


[W]hen 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 ----/