"Quotable Quotes"

"Love distils desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart."
~Euripides

 "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
~Mignon McLaughlin

“No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.”
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

“We don't believe in infatuation love until after the first attack.”
~Anonymous

“Infatuation Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.”
~Anonymous

“Love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. “
~ David Viscott

“Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
~Dr. Karl Menninger

"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.”
~Unknown Source

”Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
~Elbert Hubbard

"Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."
~ John Keats

“We can only learn to love by loving.”
~Iris Murdoch

“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
~G. K. Chesterton

 “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” ~Anonymous

“Faults are thick where love is thin.”
~English Proverb

“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite ourselves.” ~Unknown

“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.”
~John Harrigan

“Love doesn't give a person what they deserve, but what they need.”
~Unknown

“Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.”
~Tom Wilson

“We reach our best, and we do our best, we are at our best in a love atmosphere.”
~EW Kenyon

“The first duty of love - is to listen.”
~Paul Tillich

“A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.”
~John of the Cross

“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

“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”
~Lao Tzu

“Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.”
~J. C. Ryle

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”
~Mother Teresa

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
~ Willa Cather

“If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.”
~John G. Lake

“If you have love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”          
~Sir James M. Barrie

“Jesus is not impressed by our success in anything other than love.”
~Shawn Bolz

“Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom.”
~E.W. Kenyon

“When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.”
~Kierkegaard

“If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.”
~Fr. Richard P. McBrien

“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

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
~Erich Fromm

"Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse."
~Unknown