Love Is Essential!
- What greater thing is there for two human souls to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~ George Eliot
- In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. ~ Mother Teresa
- 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
- 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
- Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. ~ Og Mandino
- The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.~ Pearl S. Buck
- Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. ~ Marguerite De Valois
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- The loving are the daring.~ Bayard Taylor
- Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.~ Mother Teresa
- The only gift is a portion of thyself.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts, Of kindness and of love. ~ William Wordsworth
- Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. ~ Robert Browning
- Love is a thing, well, its 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 - Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.~ Felix Adler
- Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine. ~ Steve Winwood - Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. ~ Cathy Carlyle
- Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- 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
- Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There?s too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~ Henry Kissinger
- To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self...this is to have succeeded. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. ~ Lao Tzu
- The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel
- Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others' love to us. ~ Thomas Trahern
- 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
- It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. ~ William Thackeray
- Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
