About love

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. (Bible: New Testament)

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. (Andre Breton)

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this word a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. (Isadora Duncan)

If you say, I love you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. (Jean Baudrillard)

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A pity beyond all telling

Is hid in his heart of love. (B. Yeats)

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. (Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld)

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. (Sarah Bernhardt)

Hopeless romantics are only hopeless in the eyes of those who don’t believe in romance. (Jean Zheng)

The only true gift is a portion of yourself. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

How vast a memory has love! (Alexander Pope)

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. (George Eliot)

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love (Goethe)

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. (Henry Drummond)

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous. (Ingrid Bergmen)

Love can hope where reason would despair. (Lord Lyttleton)

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. (Peter Ustinov)

Love can find a way.

When love and skill work together expect a miracle. (John Ruskin)

It has been said that we need

just three things in life:

Something to do,

Something to look forward to,

And someone to love.

….the Love which us doth bind,

But fate so enviously debars,

Is the conjuction of the Mind,

And opposition of the Stars. (Andrew Marvell)

Love is anterior to life,

Posterior to death,

Initial of creation, and

The exponent of breath. (Emily Dickinson)