Love Gumbi

(Texas)

I have learned that people can not only change in a few years or even a year, but people are constantly changing from month to month, week to week, day to day. One year can hold the memories of a lifetime, and in just one second love can be created or destroyed.

- Jesse

Love' Laugh' Life

In 32 years on this earth I've never seen, met or known a girl that makes my heart ache as much as you & your everything, from head to toe is immaculate to me I find you attractive on a whole new level & far above anything or anyone I've ever laid eyes on in my whole entire life.

Don't Settle

Don't Settle.

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. – Oprah Winfrey

How to measure love

You can measure someone's love for you by how they act when they are angry or hurt with or by you....DAR

the fire of love at first sight

by staci
(Rossvile, TN, USA)

i see him there all alone shining like a blaze. i know he is my prize. everything about him seems right like he can do no wrong. birds are in the air singing our personal love song the song i have dreamt of for many nights. i stare unwillingly at his marvelous haze.does the world exist is it still there or am i dreaming? his smile so smoldering his eyes so bright his perfection seems to glow like a fire scorching in the dark. is he real a hallucination maybe am i going crazy? if i reach out to touch if i dare will he really be there? our first meeting so nice was the fire of love at first sight.

If Conversation was the Lyrics...

by Melinda Markham
(Surrey, BC)

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
― Nicholas Sparks

Anonymous quote

A broken heart is like a puzzle with a missing piece, it will never be whole again.

When Someone Loves You

by Lydia Larsen
(Provo, Utah)

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
― Jess C. Scott from The Intern

The quality of love - Brian Tracy

"The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life."
-Brian Tracy

A man reserves his true and deepest love

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. ~George Jean Nathan

Painting by Arthur Hughes: The Brave Geraint

How did it happen that their lips came together?

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo

Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner."-Max Lucado

Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; C.S. Lewis

by Romance Goddess
(Ashland, Oregon)

"Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him."
C.S. Lewis

I think this advice can apply in a committed love relationship as well as with our "neighbors". "Acting as if" is a great way to break out of a sour mood or redirecting when we feel critical toward our mates.

When we pretend that we have loving feelings and behave in a loving way, filling our minds with loving thoughts, pretty soon our affection and romantic feelings return.

Sometimes we resist this shift because it seems insincere or "manipulative". Perhaps we think that we should share our "true" feelings with our beloved, regardless of how foul and hurtful they may be.

NEWSFLASH: They won't be sorry they missed your critical outlook, snide comments OR negative focus. They are much more likely to welcome your sweet attentions and shower YOU with THEIR love. Seems like a good trade-off to me...

Being in love is so good for you. Abraham/Hicks

Being in love is so good for you. Often when people are newly in love, things that have been bothering them for a long time get better. Something wonderful is calling the majority of their attention, so they're holding themselves in a better vibrational place, so the stuff they've been wanting all along can now zoom in.
--- Abraham/Hicks

Love Never Dies a Natural Death

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ~ Anais Nin

True Love

by Leah
(Harrisburg,PA, United States)

"Our love has stitched and unstitched it self millions of times and that's what true love is.

But can you always find it when you want? No, when god believes that it is the time for that special someone to come into your life and when it happens you should thank the man who made it all happened, Who is that......GOD!"

You can't stop loving - Keith Sweat

“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 it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
Keith Sweat

Choose Each Other for Life

"I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and a woman to understand each other and. . . to understand - is to love."
- William Butler Yeats

My Favorite When Harry Met Sally Quote

I love that you get cold when it is 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
-- When Harry Met Sally

Love, love, love-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor
imagination nor both together go to the
making of genius. Love, love, love, that is
the soul of genius. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Unconditional Love by Yehuda Berg

by Betsy S.
(Saskatchewan, Canada)

"Unconditional love is a state of mind. It is a state of being, and seeing the world in a certain light. It is waking and sleeping with a consciousness that we wear perpetually. It is the love of people, not for ‘who’ they are, but because they are." Yehuda Berg

Unconditional love is "true love".

Love by Loving

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004

Love is like a campfire:

by Harmony
(US)

I saw this on FaceBook:

"Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire." written by Molleen Matsumura

I LOVE this quote!

Love is Worth Fighting For -- Erica Jong

I remember this quote from back in the day-- Still true though!

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

Angels With Only One Wing

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo

True and Deepest Love

"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." --George Jean Nathan

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee - Erich Fromm

“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 of little love.”
Erich Fromm

Lovers are such strange people

Lovers are such strange people they're not like everybody else. They don't carry their souls in their bodies instead their souls carry them. People run to the river of the waters of life in hopes of becoming immortal. Yet the waters of life are always running towards the Lovers. ~ Rumi

In dreams and in love

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Janos Arany

Well of Affection

"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

If you feel the flow of love in your life

If you feel the flow of love in your life, you have a springboard to miracles under your feet with every step. Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks

When you begin to touch your heart - Pema Chodron

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron

We came together underneath the stars above.

We came together underneath the stars above. What started out as liking soon developed into love. I sense a certain something that, in my heart, felt so true that I knew I waited all my life to fall in love with you. ~ Gregory J P Godek

Remember to look at life from the eyes of a two-year old

Remember to look at life from the eyes of a two-year old--with joy and exuberance and the pure certainty that love and beauty surround us. (paraphrased from Elaine, Michele, or Barb of Rom Con Replay)

Life is short--Paul Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.
La vida es corta: besa despacio, ríe bien alto, ama intensamente y perdona rápido. (Aleph)
(from Paul Coelho)

Love means nothing

Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. ~Author Unknown

True love doesn't have a happy ending

True love doesn't have a happy ending:
True love doesn't have an ending.
~ Anonymous

Just because someone doesn't love you

Just because someone doesn't love you
in the way you want them to,
doesn't mean that they don't love you
with all they've got.
~ Anonymous

Love can never grow old.-- Leo Buscaglia

Love can never grow old.
Locks may lose their brown and gold.
Cheeks may fade and hollow grow.
But the hearts that love will know,
never winter's frost and chill,
summer's warmth is in them still.
-- Leo Buscaglia

Happy Chance

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." -- William Somerset Maugham

What greater thing is there for two human souls: George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life? To strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. -George Eliot

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. Bruce Lee

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
Often hot and fierce,
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older,
Our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable
-- Bruce Lee

Attributes of Love

by Margaret D.
(Wisconsin)

"But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat." by Molly Haskell

Jean-Pierre 'Raven' Gregoire AKA Sri Gawn Tu Fahr.

Each beat of your glowing heart gives birth to countless brilliant constellations. Your glorious love light shatters my mind into a million fragments and I am reborn as an angelic wave upon your inimitable ocean of love and splendor. With wings in my heart I fly forever in your eyes.

Enough Love - Adriana Picaz

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open. Adriana Picaz

Together

by K.D.
(U.S.A.)

Together starts with two.

this's what love is

by sonita bovel
(Liberia)

wenlig

Love is a shepherd to a sheep. Pure drinking water to a thirsty soul. A light to the one walking in the dark. A life jacket to a drowning man and a bed of roses to a sleepy baby; Anyone that finds it,call it a hope to live again.

The hours I spend with you

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

The Color of Love

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." -- Marc Chagall

If I know what love is

If I know what love is,
It is because of you.
~ Herman Hesse

Love withers with predictability

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
~ Leo Buscaglia

How Sweet are the Times--Mary Ann Macomber

How sweet are the times that we loved the night away, held each other tightly in the night, each afraid of letting the other go, even for a minute, afraid of the loss of one who might not return, but that did not happen. In the dawn, there we were, waiting for the other to awaken to love each other again. Unbelievable times, love and tender caresses waiting for the end of time... Mary Ann Macomber

Love has no other desire ~ Kahlil Gibran

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Find a guy who calls you beautiful

“Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep. Wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the ...world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you. The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.'” Author Unknown

Bob Marley Love Quote

"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there."
— Bob Marley

Jane Austen Quotes

by Sara McGoodwin

Jane Austen

Happy Birthday Jane!

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."(Pride and Prejudice)

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life." Pride and Prejudice, 1811

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."(Pride and Prejudice)

"Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without." (Pride and Prejudice)

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you." (Persuasion)

"Perhaps it it our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!"(Emma)

"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."(Love and Friendship)

"A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not."(Persuasion)

"We all have our best guides within us, if only we would listen."
— Fanny Price in Mansfield Park"

"do anything rather than marry without affection."(Pride and Prejudice)

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."(Mansfield Park)

"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"(Persuasion)

"There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time."
— Jane Austen