Love

I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. -James Joyce

“I’m desperately impressed,” she said.  He was obviously a lunatic but an appealing one.  She forgot to be afraid.  - Nora Roberts

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.  -Francis Bacon

"Love is a misunderstanding between two fools." -- Rufus Thomas

Love is friendship set on fire. -French Proverb

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

-- Iris Murdoch

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
-La Rochefoucauld

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

-- Lisa Hoffman

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."  -Unknown

"Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there."

- Otomo No Yakamochi 

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. 
-Friedrich Nietzsche 

It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.

- Tom Robbins

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

-- Emo Philips

I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

-- Dorothy Parker

All creatures are flames of love. -Catherine Cibo

As we discover we remember, remembering, we discover, and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge.  -Eudora Welty

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

-- Libbie Fudim

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.

-- Marlin Finch Lupus

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

-- François de La Rouchefoucauld

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, Outsside the Dog Museum

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

-- Frederick Buechner, Thhe Magnificent Defeat

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

-- Hoshang N. Akhtar

just because someone doesn't love

you the way you want them to doesn't

mean they don't love you with all they have.

-unknown

­­­­When my love swears that she is made of truth
­­­­­­­­­            ­­­­            ­­­­I do believe her, though I know she lies.

­­­­­­­­­            ­­­­            ­­­­                                    ­­­­W. Shakespeare

  "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can

  sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

   -unknown

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."

  - Stone Temple Pilots