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Lovely Quotes About Love
Lovely Quotes About Love
Lovely Quotes About Love
The wondrous feeling of being in love, they say, cannot be expressed in words alone. But this hasn't
stopped us from trying. Oceans of ink have been spilled in hopes of capturing love in all its many
forms. We offer you this sampling of our favorite attempts:
I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love.
--Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Russian writer. From What Men Live By and Other Tales.
Drink to me with your eyes alone ... And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses,
and give it so to me."
--Flavius Philostratus (170 - 245), Greek writer. From "Letter 24."
Give me but what this ribband bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.
--Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687), English poet. From "On a Girdle."
The trick is to love somebody ... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
--Attributed to James Baldwin (1924 - 1987), U.S. writer and civil-rights activist.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), French writer and aviator. From Wind, Sand and Stars.
HELENA: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
--William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), English poet and playwright. From A Midsummer Night's
Dream, Act 1, Scene 1.
The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in
love.
--Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 - 1937), Russian writer. From "The Fisher of Men." (see Soviet
Literature)
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
--Attributed to Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), U.S. writer and wit.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
--Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), British philosopher and mathematician. From Marriage and
Morals.
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
--Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960), U.S. writer and folklorist. From Moses: Man of the Mountain.
What love is, if thou wouldst be taught,
Thy heart must teach
alone--
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
--Friedrich Halm (1806 - 1871), German playwright and poet. From Ingomar the Barbarian (Maria
Lovell, tr.).
You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.
--D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930), British writer. Referring to a dog in "Bibbles," from The Complete
Poems of D. H. Lawrence.
When a man is in love
how can he use old words?
Should a woman
desiring her lover
lie down with grammarians and linguists?
--Nizar Qabbani (1923 - 1998), Syrian poet. From Modern Arabic Poetry, "Language" (Salma Khadra
Jayyusi, ed.).
As a mummy, you probably adore your girls. You can dress up your girls, doll them
up, and watch in fascination at the ways they try to mimic a little woman.
Their innocence and endearing acts probably left you wondering what kind of woman
will your girl grow up to be someday. Would she be pretty? Would she be happy?
Would she find a good man?
Sprinkle these beautiful girl quotes into your journals, cards, scrapbooks and letters!
Let these quotes about girls express your deep emotions about the joy of having
your girls in your life. Celebrate the charm of your girls with these girl quotes!
A baby girl...one of the most beautiful miracles in life, one of the greatest joys we
can ever know, and one of the reasons why there is a little extra sunshine, laughter
and happiness in your world today.
-- Author Unknown
A Daughter Is... ...your greatest source of pride and your greatest hope for the
future... The happiest moment of your life was the day she was introduced to the
world.
-- Bettie Meschler
A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep
inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love
for her knows no bounds.
-- Barbara Cage
A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give.
-- Laurel Atherton
A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. she
can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves yet
just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in
her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and
Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
-- Alan Beck
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar
people understand each other.
-- George Eliot
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and
strong character.
-- Jane Seymour
Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye. In every gesture. dignity and love.
-- John Milton
Her smile beams like sunshine, which fills our hearts with love.
-- Birgit B.
How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a
woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.
-- Louis L'Amour
How wonderful to meet such a natural little girl. She knows what she wants and she
asks for it. Not like these over-civilized little pets that have to go through analysis
before they can choose an ice cream soda.
-- John Lee Mahin
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.
-- Madonna
In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons there is ambition; but to our
daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
-- Joseph Addison
It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
Little girls are just angels who haven't yet spread their wings.
-- Author Unknown
Little girls are precious gifts, wrapped in love serene. Their dresses tied with sashes
and futures tied with dreams.
-- Author Unknown
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit
of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always
enough left to lasso your heart. . .
-- Alan Beck
Little girls bring such delight with hearts so warm and smiles so bright!
-- Author Unknown
Little girls dance their way into your heart, whirling on the tips of angel wings,
scattering gold dust & kisses in our paths.
-- Author Unknown
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her
hand a little.
-- Mason Cooley
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our
homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
-- Margaret E. Sangster
Princesses wear crowns to remind them that they are smart and beautiful because
some days it's easy to forget.
-- Author Unknown
Remember when all we had to do was to keep our ponytails straight and catch
fireflies?
-- Author Unknown
She will fill our lives with sunshine... And our hearts with love.
-- Author Unknown
She's the one all the boys loved because she lit up the room, and she's the one all
the girls hated for the very same reason.
-- S. Brewer
Sugar and spice and everything nice, ribbons and curls because she's a girl.
-- Author Unknown
The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an
individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with
potential.
-- Emilie Buchwald
There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.
-- Thomas Campion
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
-- Joan Rivers
What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her
own sky, whatever that may be.
-- Helen Claes
When you educate a man, you educate an individual, but when you educate a
woman, you educate a nation.
-- Johnetta B. Cole
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh
with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to
love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can
never grow in a jealous heart.
-- Leo F. Buscaglia
A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the
heating system of the heart.
-- Author Unknown
Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored
thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
-- From the movie Moulin Rouge
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one
can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you
courage.
-- Lao Tzu
Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to
our souls.
-- Author Unknown
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt
before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
-- Author Unknown
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
-- Oscar Hammerstein
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's
cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth
fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk
anything, you risk even more.
-- Erica Jong
Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
-- Anonymous
Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears...
laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love
another. I'm sure of it.
-- Author Unknown
For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart
sing.
-- Leland Thomas
Goodnight! Goodnight!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.
-- William Shakespeare
I am so glad that you are here... It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
-- Goethe
I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds
and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes
on. I can't even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.
-- Sarah Mimnaugh
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you
do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two
people are destined to be together.
-- Julia Roberts
I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I
breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if
you go, then don't forget to take me with you.
-- Basia
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
-- Ray Croft
I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each
other's dreams, we'll always be together.
-- Hobbes
I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my
life wishing you were there. I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you
do...I'm sorry I can't help myself, I'm in love with you.
-- Author Unknown
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
-- Emily Dickinson
If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you,
so you could see how truly special you are.
-- Author Unknown
If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I
didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.
-- Author Unknown
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou
In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek.
-- French proverb
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals
nothing.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be
bridged.
-- Hans Nouwens
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-- Maya Angelou
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are
dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to
life that nothing else can bring.
-- Oscar Wilde
Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance.
-- Author Unknown
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
outward together in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-- Franklin P. Jones
Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the
time,...made new.
-- Le Guin
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
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
Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the
happiness of the person you love.
-- Author Unknown
Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.
-- J. Ghetto
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
-- Eurpides
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the
garden a place of delight just the same.
-- Helen Keller
Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.
-- Kamila
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process.
-- Henry Beyle Stendahl
Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent its
coming back.
-- Nigerian Proverb
Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.
-- Author Unknown
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside
because you're close in heart.
-- Kay Knudsen
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your
own.
-- Robert A Heinlein
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the
hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and
whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-- Erich Fromm
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much
perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
-- Vincent Van Gogh
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.
-- Michael W.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct:
What they like is to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be
loved.
-- Barbara Johnson
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
-- Author Unknown
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
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
-- Saint Augustine
So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee.
-- Robert Browning
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
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the
depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is
transformed.
-- J. Krishnamurti
The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with
the heart.
-- Helen Keller
The word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes
to my mind is you.
-- Author Unknown
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes,
rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart,
hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your
being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know
yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
-- Author Unknown
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
-- Samuel Butler
True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
-- Author Unknown
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect
person perfectly.
-- Sam Keen
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
-- Tom Robbins
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a
part of us.
-- Helen Keller
What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what
constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it.
Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight.
We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember
that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
-- Leo Buscaglia
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my
urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said
you loved me, you had my heart forever.
-- Author Unknown
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in
the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life
is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
-- Keith Sweat
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being
what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.
-- Author Unknown
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of
you, my whole life long.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Many authors and movie makers have tried to express the psychological difference between a
girl and a boy. The movie "What a Woman Wants" takes you deep into the psyche of girls and
women. In the book, "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," the author explains
gender disparity with the help of biology. But to truly understand the dynamic nature of a girl,
you either need to be one, or to live with one. Here are some funny, witty, and insightful girl
quotes that help you read her mind.
• Mae West
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
• Allan Beck
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and
Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
• Lewis Carroll
I am fond of children -- except boys.
• J. D. Salinger
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about
girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and
then you never know where the hell you are.
• Helen Rowland
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to
kiss her, when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
• Cher
A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still
doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
• Mae West
You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting
shows up new angles.
• Benjamin Franklin
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.
• Thomas Carlyle
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the
benefit of the doubt.
• Pope Gregory I
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
• J. D. Salinger
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
• Tara Reid
I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time.
• Louise Brooks
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because
other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
• Mae West
There are no good girls gone wrong -- just bad girls found out.
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to
save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have
drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What
then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
• Albert Einstein
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
• Allan Beck
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.