Quotes of Fondness - somelinesforyou

“ Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you.". ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Where there is great love there are always miracles. ”

- Willa Cather

“ To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ 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

“ After the verb "To Love"…"To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. ”

- Bertha Von Suttner

“ Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. ”

- Konstantin Stanislavisky

“ It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. - Zelda Fitzgerald. ”

- Zelda Fitzgerald

“ The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, all duties even. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Hamilton Wright Mabie - Franklin P. Jones. ”

- Franklin P. Jones

“ Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Take heed lest passion swayThy judgment to do aught, which else free willWould not admit. ”

- John Milton

“ She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears,For women shed and use them at their liking;But there is something when man's eye appearsWet, still more disagreeable and striking. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ”

- Douglas Yates

“ Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark! ”

- Unknown

“ Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. ”

- Bible

“ A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'. ”

- James Thurber

“ Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. ”

- Plato

“ The first duty of love is to listen. ”

- Paul Tillich

“ Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ”

- William Cowper

“ To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. ”

- Karen Sunde

“ Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ”

- George Bernard Shaw
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