The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. – Nan Fairbrother
My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world. – Oscar Wilde Letter to Carlos Blacker
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. – Mother Teresa
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. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore M. Hesburgh
There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. – Helen Hayes
They do not love that do not show their love. – William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1, Scene 2, Julia.
This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. – Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Beautiful You are altogether beautiful, my love, there is no flaw in you. – The Bible Song of Solomon 4:7
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love, Time is eternity. – Henry van Dyke Poem read at funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.
‘Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson In Memoriam A. H. H
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. – Mahatma Gandhi
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. – Anna Louise Strong
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. – Bertrand Russell