Popular Love Words
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."Mother Teresa
"Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds."
Grey Livingston
"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
"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder."
Charles Morgan
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
William Shakespeare,
"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
"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
"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
"Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency."
Gilbert Parker
"A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving;
'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear."
Edmond Rostand
"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years."
Rupert Brooke
"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
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
Thomas Carlyle
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
William Shakespeare
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld