3. To my beloved father, Chua Ngak Chua,
who passed away on March 29, 2006 and
to my loving mother, Tan Juay Eng.
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Symphony of Love has been a special project, brought to fruition
through the perseverance, effort and moral support from some
very special people. I am deeply grateful to my family and friends
who have been giving me moral support throughout this project.
It made me believe that in dreams and in love, nothing is
impossible.
I express special thanks:
- to Wen Liang Chay for agreeing to help me with the editing of
this Ebook at such short notice, for providing valuable advice and
for suggesting a great title for this Ebook.
- to Hong Lee Toh, Leong Soon Poh, Chia Kian Chye, Ken Oh &
his wife Yi On Chan for the moral support along the way.
- to Victor Sim for the many valuable lessons and advice on the
internet, which made this project possible in the first place.
- to Siew Kiat Chan for the last minute advice on the web page.
- to Iris Ho and Jocelyn Lim for agreeing to look through the book
and website even before it gets online.
- and most of all, to my wonderful parents, Chua Ngak Chua and
Tan Juay Eng for their patience, love and guidance from day one;
to my brother Boon Howe Chua and my sister Wan Yi Chua & her
good husband Kee Hong and their three beautiful children, Yong
Ling, Yong Li and Yong Chuan.
Thank you to all for helping make this happen.
5. The best and most beautiful things in
this world cannot be seen or even heard,
but must be felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller
12. I have found the paradox that if I
love until it hurts, then there is no
hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa
13. If you judge people, you have
no time to love them.
-- Mother Teresa
14. Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a
wife or husband, to a next-door
neighbor.
-- Mother Teresa
15. Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within the reach of every hand.
-- Mother Teresa
16. Smile at each other, smile at your
wife, smile at your husband, smile
at your children, smile at each
other--it doesn’t matter who it is--
and that will help you to grow up
in greater love for each other.
-- Mother Teresa
19. What can you do to promote world
peace? Go home and love your
family.
-- Mother Teresa
20. If you think well of others, you will also speak well of
others and to others. From the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you
will speak of love.
-- Mother Teresa
21. It is easy to love the people far
away. It is not always easy to
love those close to us. It is
easier to give a cup of rice to
relieve hunger than to relieve
the loneliness and pain of
someone unloved in our own
home. Bring love into your
home for this is where our love
for each other must start.
-- Mother Teresa
22. Let us always meet each other with
smile, for the smile is the beginning
of love.
-- Mother Teresa
23. My wife is as handsome as when
she was a girl, and I...fell in love
with her; and what is more, I have
never fallen out.
-- Abraham Lincoln
24. Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
-- Abraham Lincoln
25. The laws of gravity cannot be held
responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein
26. How on earth are you ever going to
explain in terms of chemistry and
physics so important a biological
phenomenon as first love?
-- Albert Einstein
27. When you sit with a nice girl for
two hours, you think it's only a
minute. But when you sit on a hot
stove for a minute, you think it's
two hours. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein
28. 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.
-- American President George W. Bush
29. Love sought is good, but given
unsought is better.
-- William Shakespeare
30. Men have died from time to
time, and worms have eaten
them, but not for love.
-- William Shakespeare
31. Love is not love that
alters when it
alteration finds.
-- William Shakespeare
32. If thou remember not
the slightest folly into
which loves hast made
thee run, thou hast not
loved.
-- William Shakespeare
33. But love is blind and lovers cannot
see the pretty follies that themselves
commit; for if they could, Cupid
himself would blush to see me thus
transformed to a boy.
-- William Shakespeare
34. If music be the food of love, play on.
-- William Shakespeare
35. “Shall I compare thee to a summer day?
Thou art more lovely and more
temperate ... When in eternal lines to
time thou growst, So long as men can
breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this,
and this gives life to thee.”
-- William Shakespeare
36. Love asks me no questions, and
gives me endless support...
-- William Shakespeare
37. Things base and vile, holding no
quantity, Love can transpose to form
and dignity. Love looks not with the eye,
but with the mind, and therefore is
winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare
38. The courses of true love
never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare
39. So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I
could endure. Without him, lives no life.
-- William Shakespeare
40. To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as
you were when first your eyes I eyed, such
seems your beauty still.
-- William Shakespeare
41. Doubt that the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar; But never
doubt I love.
-- -- William Shakespeare
42. Those who are faithful know only
the trivial side of love: it is the
faithless who know love's tragedies.
-- Oscar Wilde
43. Where there is no exaggeration
there is no love, and where there is
no love there is no understanding.
-- Oscar Wilde
44. Music makes one feel so romantic - at
least it always gets on one's nerves -
which is the same thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde
45. Life is one fool thing after
another whereas love is two fool
things after each other.
-- Oscar Wilde
46. To give and not expect return, that
is what lies at the heart of love.
-- Oscar Wilde
47. Love grows by giving. The love we give away
is the only love we keep. The only way to
retain love is to give it away.
-- Elbert Hubbard
49. We are not held back by the love
we didn't receive in the past, but
by the love we're not extending in
the present.
-- Marianne Williamson
50. At sunrise everything is luminous but
not clear. It is those we live with and
love and should know who elude us.
You can love completely without
complete understanding.
-- Norman Maclean
51. Love is that condition in which the happiness
of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
52. If there ever comes a day when we
can’t be together, keep me in your
heart, I’ll stay there forever.
-- Winnie the Pooh
53. The best and most
beautiful things in this
world cannot be seen or
even heard, but must be
felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller
54. When one door of happiness closes,
another opens: but often we look so
long at the closed door that we do
not see the one which has been
opened for us.
-- Helen Keller
55. As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind, so
love with its joy clears and
sharpens the vision.
-- Helen Keller
56. Sweet are the words
of Love, sweeter his
thoughts: Sweetest of
all what Love nor
says nor thinks.
-- Richard Garnett
57. My love, you know you are my
best friend. You know that I’d do
anything for you And my love, let
nothing come between us. My
love for you is strong and true.
-- Sarah McLachlan
58. Being deeply loved by someone gives
you strength, while loving someone
deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu
59. Kindness in words
creates confidence.
Kindness in
thinking creates
profoundness.
Kindness in giving
creates love.
-- Lao Tzu
60. In a great romance, each person plays
a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley
61. Love is composed of a single soul
inhabiting two bodies.
-- Aristotle
62. My most brilliant achievement was
my ability to be able to persuade my
wife to marry me.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
63. Nothing spoils the taste of peanut
butter like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown
64. Love is something eternal; the aspect
may change, but not the essence.
-- Vincent Van Gogh
65. Love many things, for therein lies
the true strength, and whosoever
loves much performs much, and can
accomplish much, and what is done
in love is done well.
-- Vincent Van Gogh
66. You, yourself, as much
as anybody in the entire
universe, deserve your
love and affection.
-- Buddha
67. The thought manifests as the word. The
word manifests as the deed. The deed
develops into habit. And the habit
hardens into character. So watch the
thought and its ways with care. And
let it spring from love, born out of
concern for all beings.
-- Buddha
68. Thousands of candles can be
lighted from a single candle, and
the life of the candle will not be
shortened. Happiness never
decreases by being shared.
-- Buddha
69. Better to have loved and lost, than
to have never loved at all.
-- Saint Augustine
70. Since love grows
within you, so
beauty grows. For
love is the beauty
of the soul.
-- Saint Augustine
71. Love is not just looking at each other;
it's looking in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
72. It is only with the
heart that one can
see rightly; what is
essential is invisible
to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
73. True love begins when nothing is
looked for in return.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
74. Love never dies a natural death. It
dies because we don't know how to
replenish its source. It dies of
blindness and errors and betrayals.
It dies of illness and wounds; it
dies of weariness, of withering, of
tarnishing.
-- Anais Nin
75. To love someone is
to see a miracle
invisible to others.
-- Francois Mauriac
76. Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell
together: at the door where the latter
enters, the former makes its exit.
-- Alexandre Dumas
77. Love is the best medicine, and there is more than
enough to go around once you open your heart.
-- Julie Marie
78. Love the heart
that hurts you,
but never hurt the
heart that loves
you.
-- Vipin Sharma
79. True love does not come by finding
the perfect person, but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Jason Jordan
80. Can there be a love which does not
make demands on its object?
-- Confucius
81. Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I
can: all of them make me laugh.
-- W. H. Auden
82. Time is too slow for those who
wait, too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, too
short for those who rejoice, but for
those who love, time is eternity.
-- Henry Van Dyke
83. Find the person who will love you
because of your differences and not
in spite of them and you have
found a lover for life.
-- Leo Buscaglia
84. Love is always bestowed as a gift -
- freely, willingly, and without
expectation ... We don’t love to be
loved; we love to love.
-- Leo Buscaglia
85. Love is always open arms. If you
close your arms about love you will
find that you are left holding only
yourself.
-- Leo Buscaglia
86. The heart is the place where we live
our passions. It is frail and easily
broken, but wonderfully resilient.
There is no point in trying to
deceive the heart. It depends upon
our honesty for its survival.
-- Leo Buscaglia
87. Too often we underestimate the power
of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or
the smallest act of caring, all of which
have the potential to turn a life around.
-- Leo Buscaglia
88. Death is a
challenge. It tells
us not to waste
time... It tells us
to tell each other
right now that
we love each
other.
-- Leo Buscaglia
89. Only when we give
joyfully, without
hesitation or thought of
gain, can we truly know
what love means.
-- Leo Buscaglia
90. Relish love in your old age! Aged
love is like aged wine; it becomes
more satisfying, more refreshing,
more valuable, more appreciated
and more intoxicating!
-- Leo Buscaglia
91. True love never lives happily ever after - true
love has no ending.
-- K. Knight
92. Love at first sight is easy to
understand; it's when two people
have been looking for each other for
a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
-- Amy Bloom
93. Marriage is not a ritual or an end.
It is a long, intricate, intimate
dance together and nothing matters
more than your own sense of
balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom
94. Love doesn't make
the world go round.
Love is what makes
the ride worthwhile.
-- Franklin P. Jones
95. Love is but the discovery of
ourselves in others, and the
delight in the recognition.
-- Alexander Smith
96. In a separation it is the one who is
not really in love who says the
more tender things.
-- Marcel Proust
97. What a profound significance small things assume
when the woman we love conceals them from us.
-- Marcel Proust
98. In his younger days a man dreams
of possessing the heart of the
woman whom he loves; later, the
feeling that he possesses the heart
of a woman may be enough to
make him fall in love with her.
-- Marcel Proust
99. People who are not in love fail to
understand how an intelligent man can
suffer because of a very ordinary
woman. This is like being surprised that
anyone should be stricken with cholera
because of a creature as insignificant as
the comma bacillus.
-- Marcel Proust
100. Life is the flower for which love is
the honey.
-- Victor Hugo
105. Age does not protect you from love,
but love to some extent protects
you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau
106. The most important things to do in
the world are to get something to
eat, something to drink and
somebody to love you.
-- Brandan Behan
107. In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
-- Janos Arnay
108. Love and magic have a great deal
in common. They enrich the soul,
delight the heart. And they both
take practice.
-- Nora Roberts
109. If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
-- Benjamin Franklin
110. He that falls in love with himself
will have no rivals.
-- Benjamin Franklin
111. I will speak ill of no man, and
speak all the good I know of
everybody.
-- Benjamin Franklin
112. Keep your eyes wide open before
marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin
113. In love of home, the
love of country has
its rise.
-- Charles Dickens
114. A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
-- Charles Dickens
115. Have a heart that never hardens,
and a temper that never tires, and
a touch that never hurts.
-- Charles Dickens
116. Never close your lips to those
whom you have opened your heart.
-- Charles Dickens
117. It is better to be hated for who you
are than to be loved for what you
are not.
-- Andre Gide
118. I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and
to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along
a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.
-- Andre Gide
119. The most wonderful of all things in life, I
believe, is the discovery of another human
being with whom one's relationship has a
glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years
increase. This inner progressiveness of love
between two human beings is a most
marvelous thing, it cannot be found by
looking for it or by passionately wishing for it.
It is a sort of Divine accident.
-- Sir Hugh Walpoe
120. Never let a problem to be solved
becomes more important than a person
to be loved.
-- Barbara Johnson
122. A woman has got to love a bad
man once or twice in her life to be
thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West
123. To love is to place our happiness in the
happiness of another.
-- G.W. Von Leibnitz
124. No cord or cable can draw so
forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can
do with a single thread.
-- Robert Burton
125. Love isn't just for the smart or
talented, but for all the animals
God created.
-- Sarah Wonders
126. We always deceive ourselves twice
about the people we love - first to
their advantage, then to their
disadvantage.
-- Albert Camus
127. Where love rules, there is no will to
power; and where power predominates,
there love is lacking. The one is the
shadow of the other.
-- Carl Jung
128. The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction,
both are transformed.
-- Carl Jung
129. Love yourself first and everything
else falls into line. You really have
to love yourself to get anything
done in this world.
-- Lucille Ball
130. In literature as in love, we are
astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- Andre Maurois
131. Man will do many things to get
himself loved; he will do all things
to get himself envied.
-- Mark Twain
132. Love seems the swiftest, but it is
the slowest of all growths. No man
or woman really knows what
perfect love is until they have been
married a quarter of a century.
-- Mark Twain
133. To get the full
value of joy you
must have
someone to
divide it with.
-- Mark Twain
135. The essence of romantic love is not the
company of a lover but the pursuit.
-- Andrew Sullivan
136. I never knew how to worship until
I knew how to love.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
137. Young love is a flame; very pretty,
often very hot and fierce, but still
only light and flickering. The love
of the older and disciplined heart is
as coals, deep burning,
unquenchable.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
138. Of all the music that reached farthest into
heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
139. Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to
be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out
of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns
low.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
140. And what’s romance? Usually, a
nice little tale where you have
everything As You Like It, where
rain never wets your jacket and
gnats never bite your nose and it’s
always daisy-time.
-- D.H. Lawrence
141. Mortal lovers must not try to
remain at the first step; for lasting
passion is the dream of a harlot
and from it we wake in despair.
-- C.S. Lewis
142. Love is not affectionate feeling, but a
steady wish for the loved person's
ultimate good as far as it can be
obtained.
-- C.S. Lewis
143. The fickleness of the women I love is only
equaled by the infernal constancy of the women
who love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw
144. I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
-- George Bernard Shaw
145. First love is only a little foolishness
and a lot of curiosity.
-- George Bernard Shaw
146. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference
between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw
147. We are shaped and fashioned by
what we love.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
148. There is a courtesy of the heart; it
is allied to love. From it springs the
purest courtesy in the outward
behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
149. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real
thing; a confusion of the real with the
ideal never goes unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
150. 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 Wolfgang von Goethe
151. There is no remedy for love but to love
more.
-- Henry David Thoreau
152. Anything will give up its secrets if you
love it enough. Not only have I found
that when I talk to the little flower or
to the little peanut they will give up
their secrets, but I have found that
when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you
love them enough.
-- George Washington
153. The most important thing a father can do
for his children is to love their mother.
-- Theodore M Hesburgh
154. Where we love is home, home that our feet
may leave, but not our hearts.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
155. Love is the master key which opens the
gates of happiness.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
156. The sound of a kiss is not as loud as that of a cannon,
but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
158. Love means having to say you're sorry every
fifteen minutes.
-- John Lennon
159. Looking back, I have this to regret, that too
often when I loved, I did not say so.
-- David Grayson
160. 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
161. Love takes off masks that we fear we
cannot live without and know we
cannot live within.
-- James Baldwin
162. The trick is to love somebody.... If you love
one person, you see everybody else differently.
-- James Baldwin
163. All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frame All
are but ministers of Love And feed
His sacred flame.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
164. Friendship often ends in love; but love in
friendship - never.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
165. Ever has it been that love knows not its own
depth until the hour of separation.
-- Kahlil Gibran
166. Life without love is like a tree without
blossoms or fruit.
-- Kahlil Gibran
167. And think not you can guide the
course of love. For love, if it finds
you worthy, shall guide your course.
-- Kahlil Gibran
168. If you love
somebody, let them
go, for if they return,
they were always
yours. And if they
don't, they never
were.
-- Kahlil Gibran
169. It's your unlimited power to care
and to love that can make the
biggest difference in the quality of
your life.
-- Anthony Robbins
170. To handle yourself, use your head;
to handle others, use your heart.
-- Donald Laird
171. In true love the smallest distance is too great,
and the greatest distance can be bridged.
-- Hans Nouwens
172. Love is something far more than
desire for sexual intercourse; it is
the principal means of escape from
the loneliness which afflicts most
men and women throughout the
greater part of their lives.
-- Bertrand Russell
173. Woe to the man whose heart has
not learned while young to hope, to
love - and to put its trust in life.
-- Joseph Conrad
174. Immature love says: 'I love you because
I need you.' Mature love says 'I need
you because I love you.’
-- Erich Fromm
175. To love means to commit oneself
without guarantee, to give oneself
completely in the hope that our love
will produce love in the loved person.
-- Erich Fromm
176. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of
little faith is also of little love.
-- Erich Fromm
177. Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is
why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees
distinctly what it loves.
-- Blaise Pascal
178. The heart has its
reasons of which
reason knows
nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal
179. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a
microscope.
-- Josh Billings
180. Why be something to everybody when you can
be everything to somebody?
-- G. K. Chesterton
181. Love means loving the unlovable - or it is
no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton
182. The way to love anything is to realize that it
might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton
183. Love is the triumph of imagination over
intelligence.
-- H L Mencken
184. Love is an irresistible desire to be
irresistibly desired.
-- Robert Lee Frost
185. One word frees us of all the weight
and pain of life: That word is love.
-- Sophocles
186. If love is the answer, could you
please rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin
187. 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 Aelius Aurelius
188. We need not think alike to love alike.
-- Francis David
189. There can be no deep disappointment
where there is not deep love.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
190. Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
191. Hate cannot drive out hate; only
love can do that.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
192. He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
193. To write a good love
letter, you ought to
begin without knowing
what you mean to say
and to finish without
knowing what you
have written.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
194. True love never dies for it is lust that fades away.
Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
-- Alicia Barnhart
195. The mind has a thousand eyes. And
the heart but one; yet the life of a
whole life die when love is done.
-- Francis William Bourdillon
196. Money can't buy love, but it improves your
bargaining position.
-- Christopher Marlowe
231. The magic of first love is our
ignorance that it can never end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
232. We are all born for love... it is the
principle existence and it's only end.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
233. I am certainly not an authority on love
because there are no authorities on love,
just those who've had luck with it and
those who haven't.
-- Bill Cosby
234. I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood
before. My heart has left its dwelling place …
and can return no more.
-- John Clare
240. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the
fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts
away.
-- Dorothy Parker
241. If we discovered that we only had
five minutes left to say all that we
wanted to say, every telephone booth
would be occupied by people calling
other people to stammer that they
loved them.
-- Christopher Morley
242. Love is something you can’t describe like the look of
a rose, the smell of the rain, or the feeling of forever.
-- Kristen Kappel
243. Love is when you look into someone’s
eyes, and see everything you need.
-- Kristen Kappel
244. Love is not needing a snooze button on
your alarm clock because when it goes
off the first time in the morning the
thoughts of your loved one make it
impossible to fall back asleep.
-- Natasha Harris
245. The best things in life
can never be kept; they
must be given away. A
Smile, a Kiss, and Love.
-- Tony Farrar
246. Our true identity is
to love without fear
and insecurity. Our
higher potential
finds us when we
set our course in
that direction. The
power of love and
compassion
transforms
insecurity.
-- Doc Childre
247. It's strange that words are so
inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic
struggling for breath, so the lover
must struggle for words.
-- T.S. Eliot
248. In order to create there must be a dynamic
force, and what force is more potent than love?
-- Igor Stravinsky
249. Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here
for a reason.
-- J. Ghetto
250. The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to
love and be loved in return.
-- Unforgettable with Love by Natalie Cole
252. If I had a flower for every time I thought of
you, I could walk in my garden forever.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
253. ...A simple I love you means more than money...
-- Frank Sinatra
254. Love is like a friendship caught on fire:
In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
often hot and fierce, but still only light
and flickering. As love grows older, our
hearts mature and our love become as
coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
-- Bruce Lee
255. If I know what love is, it is because of you.
-- Herman Hesse
256. True love is eternal, infinite, and
always like itself. It is equal and pure,
without violent demonstrations: it is
seen with white hairs and is always
young in the heart.
-- Honore de Balzac
258. For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to
see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere
to hear it. For every love there is a heart
somewhere to receive it.
-- Ivan Panin
259. The most precious possession that ever comes to a
man in this world is a woman's heart.
-- Josiah G. Holland
260. Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
-- Lope de Vega
261. Sometimes your nearness takes my breath
away; and all the things I want to say
can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can
only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
-- Robert Sexton
262. 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
263. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals
everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
264. ... See there's this place in me where your
fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and
your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a
part of you will forever be a part of me.
-- Gretchen Kemp
265. Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts
that beat as one.
-- John Keats
266. I love you, not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I am with you.
-- Roy Croft
267. What I do and what I dream include thee, as
the wine must taste of its own grapes...
-- Elizabeth Barret Browning
268. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
my soul can reach...
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
269. To love and be loved is to feel the sun
from both sides.
-- David Viscott
270. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose,
the next best.
-- William M. Thackeray
271. The beginning of love is to let those we
love be perfectly themselves, and not to
twist them to fit our own image.
Otherwise we love only the reflection of
ourselves we find in them.
-- Thomas Merton
272. Fear and love can never be
experienced at the same time. It is
always our choice as to which of
these emotions we want.
-- Gerald Jampolsky
273. I only want to love once, but I want to
love everybody for the rest of my life.
-- Lauren Ford
274. If you aren't good at loving yourself, you
will have a difficult time loving anyone,
since you'll resent the time and energy you
give another person that you aren't even
giving to yourself.
-- Barbara de Angelis
275. If you have love in your life, it
can make up for a great many
things that are missing. If you
don't have love in your life, no
matter what else there is, it's not
enough.
-- Ann Landers
276. If you wish the world to
become loving and
compassionate, become loving
and compassionate yourself.
-- Gary Zukav
277. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
-- Dalai Lama
278. Love has nothing to do with what you are
expecting to get--only with what you are
expecting to give--which is everything.
-- Katharine Hepburn
279. The one thing we can never get enough of is love.
And the one thing we never give enough is love.
-- Henry Miller
280. You have to sow before you can reap. You have
to give before you can get.
-- Robert Collier
282. You will find as you look back
upon your life that the moments
when you have really lived are the
moments when you have done
things in a spirit of love.
-- Henry Drummond
283. Love is, above all, the
gift of oneself.
-- Jean Anouilh
284. Real love is feeling like being a part of
that person’s life almost isn’t enough.
It’s more like a feeling that you would
live in the same skin with them if you
could and share every thought, heart
beat, and emotion as one.
-- Rod Cannon
285. Love is when you look into someone’s eyes and see
their heart.
-- Jill Petty
286. A friend’s Love says: If you ever need
anything, I’ll be there. True Love says:
You’ll never need anything; I’ll be there.
-- Jimi Hollemans
287. Love is a fire. But whether it is
going to warm your heart or burn
down your house, you can never tell.
-- Joan Crawford
288. Treasure the love you receive above
all. It will survive long after your
gold and good health has vanished.
-- Og Mandino
289. 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
290. The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so
special to them; there ought to be as many for love!
-- Margaret Atwood
291. As you continue to send out love,
the energy returns to you in a
regenerating spiral... As love
accumulates, it keeps your system
in balance and harmony. Love is
the tool, and more love is the end
product.
-- Sara Paddison
292. There is no disguise which can hide
love for long where it exists, or
simulate it where it does not.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
293. We forgive to the extent that we love.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
294. Absence diminishes
small loves and
increases great ones,
as the wind blows
out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
295. At the first kiss I felt something melt
inside me that hurt in an exquisite way.
All my longings, all my dreams and
sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept
deep within me came awake, everything
was transformed and enchanted, and
everything made sense.
-- Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
296. I look at you looking at me, Now I know
why the best things are free, How you’ve
changed my world You’ll never know, I’m
different now, You’ve helped me grow.
-- Angel of Mine, a song by Monica
297. A man loses his sense of direction after four
drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
-- H.L. Mencken
298. To be in love is merely to be in a
state of perpetual anesthesia: To
mistake an ordinary young man for
a Greek god or an ordinary young
woman for a goddess.
-- H.L. Mencken
299. Love cures people - both the ones who
give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger
300. You never lose by loving. You always lose by
holding back.
-- Barbara DeAngelis
301. Love and kindness are never wasted. They
always make a difference.
-- Barbara DeAngelis
302. Love is never
lost. If not
reciprocated,
it will flow
back and
soften and
purify the
heart.
-- Washington Irving
303. Love is a thing, well, it’s kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And
when it hits you, you’ve just got to fall.
-- UB40
304. Love is the expansion of two
natures in such fashion that each
include the other, each is enriched by
the other.
-- Felix Adler
305. I have learned not to worry
about love; But to honor its
coming with all my heart.
-- Alice Walker
306. Love is not a matter of counting the years...But
making the years count.
-- Michelle St. Amand
307. The best feelings are those that have no words to
describe them....
-- Michelle Hammersley
308. Let the world stop turning, let the sun
stop burning, let them tell me loves not
worth going through. If it all falls apart,
I will know deep in my heart, the only
dream that mattered had come true ...In
this life I was loved by you.
-- Bette Midler
309. What the heart gives away is never gone ...It is
kept in the hearts of others.
-- Robin St. John
310. Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather
than to be happy.
-- Ralph Connor
311. How wrong it is for those who love, not to
express their love.
-- Salmon P. Chase
312. The first great step is to like yourself
enough to pick someone who likes you, too.
-- Jane O'Reilly
313. We cannot really love anybody with whom we
never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier
314. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by
nature to stop speech when words
become superfluous.
-- Ingrid Bergman
315. We can only learn to
love by loving.
-- Iris Murdoch
316. Never part without loving words to
think of during your absence. It may be
that you will not meet again in this life.
-- Jean Paul Richter
317. People need loving the most when they
deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan
318. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving
ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay
319. This is the miracle that
happens every time to those
who really love; the more they
give, the more they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
320. True love isn't so much a dreamy feeling that
you have as it is an enduring commitment to
give sacrificially--even, or perhaps especially,
when you don't feel like it.
-- William R. Mattox, Jr.
321. There is only one situation I can think
of in which men and women make an
effort to read better than they usually
do. It is when they are in love and
reading a love letter.
-- Mortimer Adler
322. The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
-- Albert Ellis
323. The porcupine,
whom one
must handle
gloved, may
be respected,
but is never
loved.
-- Arthur Guiterman
324. Many a man in love with a dimple makes
a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock
325. Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and
of the most foolish woman, a sage.
-- Moritz J. Saphir
326. I have said nothing because there is
nothing I can say that would
describe how I feel as perfectly as
you deserve it.
-- Kyle Schmidt
327. Love is like PI - natural, irrational,
and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman
328. You need a heart which is in love, not an easy
life, to achieve happiness.
-- J. Escriva
329. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in
the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit
it; whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash
330. To write a good love letter, you ought to
begin without knowing what you mean
to say, and to finish without knowing
what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
331. Never frown because you never know who might
be falling in love with your smile.
-- Justine Milton
332. There is nothing better for the spirit
or the body than a love affair. It
elevates the thoughts and flattens
the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar
333. Before marriage, a man will lie awake
all night thinking about something you
said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep
before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Rowland
334. When it’s cold & dark at night, and we’re
alone together, I long to take you in my arms,
and cuddle you forever.
-- Purple Ronnie
335. Love is like the measles.
The older you get it, the
worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart
336. Love is the delusion
that one man or
woman differs from
another.
-- Henry Louis Mencken
337. Love, true love, is
that which can give
the most without
asking or demanding
anything in return.
-- Mazie Hammond
339. Love... What is love? Love is to love
someone for who they are, who they
were, and who they will be.
-- Chris Moore
340. Each morning as I awaken, you are the
reason I smile, you are the reason I love.
-- Jerry Burton
341. When you realize
you want to
spend the rest of
your life with
somebody, you
want the rest of
your life to start
as soon as
possible.
-- When Harry Met Sally, Movie
342. I would rather live and love where death is king
than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
343. Think lovingly,
speak lovingly,
act lovingly, and
every need shall
be supplied.
-- James Allen
344. To be capable of steady friendship or
lasting love, are the two greatest proofs,
not only of goodness of heart, but of
strength of mind.
-- William Hazlitt
345. Love is like a piece of art work, even the
smallest bit can be so beautiful.
-- Stacie Cunningham
346. That is the best -
to laugh with
someone because
you think the
same things are
funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt
347. Love is an emotion experienced by the many
and enjoyed by the few.
-- George Jean Nathan
348. Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill
your heart, a lover can warm your bed, but
lonely is the soul without a mate.
-- David Pratt
349. Trouble is a part of your life, and if
you don't share it, you don't give the
person that loves you enough chance
to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore
350. I would rather have had one breath
of her hair, one kiss from her mouth,
one touch of her hand, than eternity
without it.
-- City of Angels
351. Love starts with a smile,
grows with a kiss and ends
with a tear.
-- Unknown
352. The secret of love is seeking variety in your life
together, and never letting routine chords dull the
melody of your romance.
-- Unknown
353. What most people need to learn in
life is how to love people and use
things instead of using people and
loving things.
-- Unknown
354. Love has nothing to do with what you are
expecting to get, its what you are expected to
give — which is everything.
-- Unknown
355. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time
you've made me smile, the entire evening sky
would be in the palm of my hand.
-- Unknown
356. Love is like playing the piano. First you
must learn to play by the rules, and then
you must forget the rules and play from
your heart.
-- Unknown
357. You don’t marry someone you can live with - you
marry the person whom you cannot live without.
-- Unknown
358. It's so funny how we set qualifications for the
right person to love, while at the back of our minds
we know that the person we truly love will always
be an exception.
-- Unknown
359. You will know when you really love
someone when you want him to be
happy even if his or her happiness means
you are not a part of it.
-- Unknown
360. Every step I took since the moment I could
walk was a step towards finding you.
-- Unknown
361. Love? It's kind of complicated, but
I'll tell you this... the second you're
willing to make yourself miserable
to make someone else happy, that's
love right there.
-- Unknown
362. The most eloquent silence; that of
two mouths meeting in a kiss.
-- Unknown
363. The rule of unconditional love; it is in the
giving that you make the other person realize.
-- Unknown
364. Lucky is the man who is the first love of
a woman, but luckier is the woman who
is the last love of a man.
-- Unknown
365. There would come a time when we
have to stop loving someone not
because that person started hating
us but because we found out that
they'd be happier if we let them go.
-- Unknown
366. The spaces between our fingers were
created so that another person's
fingers could fill them in.
-- Unknown
367. It doesn't take a reason to love
someone, but it does to like someone.
You don't love someone because you
want to; you love someone because
you are destined too. It's because you
fall in Love with them, that you then
try to find a reason, but you always
come up with the answer, No reason!
-- Unknown
368. There are many things in life that will catch your eye,
but only a few will catch your heart ... pursue those.
-- Unknown
369. If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a
hundred plus one day, so I never leave you alone.
-- Unknown
370. I love you more today than I did
yesterday, but not as much as I will
tomorrow.
-- Unknown
371. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it
extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Unknown
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