| "To LOVE is not a passive thing. To LOVE is active voice. When I LOVE I do something, I function, I give. I do not LOVE in order that I may be LOVEd back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so LOVE I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of LOVE, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself." »Bernard Iddings Bell |
| "LOVE, unrequited, robs me of my rest LOVE, hopeless LOVE, my ardent soul encumbers LOVE, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers" »William S. Gilbert |
| "LOVE does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. LOVE is a battle, LOVE is a war LOVE is a growing up." »James Baldwin |
| "A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows LOVE can erase an awful past, LOVE can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that LOVE, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you LOVE and care for the one you chose." »Rob Cella |
| "LOVE came down at Christmas LOVE all LOVEly, LOVE divine LOVE was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign." »Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| "The spiritual meaning of LOVE is measured by what it can do. LOVE is meant to heal. LOVE is meant to renew. LOVE is meant to bring us closer to God." »Deepak Chopra |
| "Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my LOVE For LOVE is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To LOVE another person Is to see the face of God." »Jean Valjean |
| "Romantic LOVE is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a LOVE affair or else when the sweet emotions of LOVE lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames." »Sir Thomas More |
| "I believe LOVE is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel LOVE, choose to LOVE and be patient." »Real Live Preacher |
| "It isn't possible to LOVE and part...you can transmutate LOVE, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. LOVE is eternal" »E. M. Forster |
| "LOVE is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by LOVE tht we double our being It is by LOVE that we approach God." »Aimee Martin |
| "I LOVE cats. I LOVE their grace and their elegance. I LOVE their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare." »Joyce Stranger |
| "Bitterness imprisons life LOVE releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life LOVE empowers it. Bitterness sours life LOVE sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life LOVE heals it. Bitterness blinds life LOVE anoints its eyes." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "May your service of LOVE a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let LOVE be free to become what LOVE truly is." »Hadewijch of Antwerp |
| "The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional LOVE. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute LOVE from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough LOVE, as long as the LOVE is unconditional." »George Herbert Walker Bush |
| "LOVE is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that LOVE overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To LOVE another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny." »Pierre Corneille |
| "An act of LOVE that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of LOVE that succeeds, for LOVE is measured by fullness, not by reception." »Harold Loukes |
| "Immature LOVE says, 'I LOVE you because I need you.' Mature LOVE says, 'I need you because I LOVE you.'" »Mignon McLaughlin |
| "Immature LOVE says 'I LOVE you because I need you.' Mature LOVE says 'I need you because I LOVE you.'" »Erich Fromm |
| "The LOVE of liberty is the LOVE of others the LOVE of power is the LOVE of ourselves." »William Hazlitt |
| "That's the nature of women not to LOVE when we LOVE them, and to LOVE when we LOVE them not." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "That is the true season of LOVE, when we believe that we alone can LOVE, that no one could ever have LOVEd so before us, and that no one will LOVE in the same way after us." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, that is the soul of genius." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| "LOVE rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For LOVE is heaven, and heaven is LOVE." »Sir Walter Scott |
| "I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than LOVE and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to LOVE. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to LOVE one another" »Theodore Hesburgh |
| "LOVE begets LOVE, LOVE knows no rules, this is the same for all." »Virgil |
| "A mighty pain to LOVE it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to LOVE, but LOVE in vain." »Abraham Crowley |
| "One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of LOVE with him, or he falls out of LOVE with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in LOVE again." »Judith Viorst |
| "All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes LOVE, rather than dependence on LOVE." »Sri da Avabhas |
| "When I write LOVE songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see LOVE as a consolation for the boredom of life." »Martin Gore |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |