For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain.
And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain
- Lyster
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts,
then there is no hurt, but only more love.
- Mother Teresa
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love;
the more they give, the more they possess
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.
- Javan
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.
- Melanie Clark
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
- Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts
what is above its strength.
- Thomas A Kempis
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
- Jule Renard
Falling in love is like being struck by lightning.
You can no more make it strike you than you can avoid it.
- Indy (Sean Patrick Flannery) Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small
and enflames the great
- Translation of Bussy-Rabutin’s quote in French
(from his book La Vie Amoureuse des Gaules – The Love Life of the Gaules)
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