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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and you.
- Omar Khayyam
(paraphrase)

Related topics: Love

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This is the answer to all questions about relationship.
When two people sing their lives in harmony,
their lives are grand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan

Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is of all passions the strongest,
for it attacks simultaneously the head,
the heart and the senses.
- Lao Tzu

Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

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

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West

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

A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal

Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)

Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven;
a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
- Omar Khayyam

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

You don't marry someone you can live with,
you marry the person who you cannot live without.
- Anonymous

My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous

I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)

Love cures people - both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it.
- Karl A. Menninger

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton

Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran

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

Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.
- Elizabeth Ashley

Love conquers all.
- Virgil

Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken

For it was not into my ear you whispered,
but into my heart.
It was not my lips you kissed,
but my soul.
- Judy Garland

Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare

A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner

It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel

In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock

My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things
that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling -
frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita

To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

When people get married because they think
it's a long-time love affair,
they'll be divorced very soon,
because all love affairs end in disappointment.
But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas

There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous

A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser

I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin

Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie