Absence is to love what wind is to a fire;
it puts out the little, it kindles the great.

--Roger DeBussy-Rabutin



To love is to admire with the heart;
to admire is to love with the mind.
--Theophile Gautier


Tell me who admires and loves you,
and I will tell you who you are.
--Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve


Patience with others is Love,
Patience with self is Hope,
Patience with God is Faith.
--Adel Bestravos


Love is the triumph of
imagination over intelligence.
--H. L. Mencken


The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
--Jacques Benigne Bossuel


True love begins when
nothing is looked for in return.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery



The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.

--Helen Keller




The love we give away is the only love we keep.
--Elbert Hubbard


The best proof of love is trust.
--Joyce Brothers


Love needs to be proved by action.
--St. Therese of Lisieux



True love is like ghosts,
which everybody talks about and few have seen.

--Francois La Rochefoucauld




Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
--Willa Cather


We can do no great things---
Only small things with great love.
--Mother Teresa


A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
--John Heywood



What the heart knows today,
the head will understand tomorrow.
--Seneca


It is wrong to think that love comes
from long companionship and persevering courtship.
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity
and unless that affinity is created in a moment,
it will not be created for years or even generations.
--Kahlil Gibran


We can only learn to love by loving.
--Iris Murdoch



Don't smother each other.
Nothing can grow in the shade.
--Leo Buscaglia


Quien bien te quiere te har a llorar
[Whoever really loves you will make you cry].
--Spanish Proverb


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


We cannot really love anybody
with whom we never laugh.
--Agnes Repplier

Love conquers all.
--Vergil


Trouble is a part of your life,
and if you don't share it,
you don't give the person who loves you
enough chance to love you enough.

--Dinah Shore


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