Love Quotations
for Valentine's Day
Part 2 - Authors E-M
compiled by Michelle Jones
"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind."
T.S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"
"The art of love ... is largely the art of
persistence."
Albert Ellis
"All mankind love a lover."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in
looking together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"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
"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 bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that
enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be
the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the
mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you
could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the
world."
Emmet Fox
"Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."
French Proverb
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one
and yet remain two."
Erich Fromm
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Erich Fromm
"We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so
intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in
mine."
Gloria Gaither
"Where there is love there is life."
Mahatma Gandhi
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my
heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
Judy Garland
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or
fruit."
Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"
"Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love
is sufficient unto love."
Kahil Gibran
"And think not you can guide the course of love. For
love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course."
Kahlil Gibran
"You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
Kahil Gibran
"From success you get a lot of things, but not that great
inside thing that love brings you."
Sam Goldwvn
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it
exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of
ourselves. We are imcomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has
been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
Goncourt
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when
I loved, I did not say so."
David Grayson
"Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out,
incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the
fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat
itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues
to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your
love."
Helen
"There is only one terminal dignity... love."
Helen Hayes
"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."
Robert Herrick
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
Elbert Hubbard
"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we
are loved."
Victor Hugo
"The supreme happiness in life it the conviction that we
are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo
"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity,
if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family,
what have you really accomplished?"
Lee Iacocca
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can
sometimes...just be an illusion."
Javan
"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let
me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by
in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it
may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my
face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and
want, more than all the world, your return."
Mary Jean Iron
"Love rules without rules." (Amore regge senza legge.)
Italian Proverb
"No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of
love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to
rejoice over."
Soren Kierkegaard
"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
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving
someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao-Tzu
"Love is infallible; it has no errors, for all errors are
the want of love."
William Law
"Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two
people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a
miracle."
Sam Levenson
"The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has
overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself
altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the
interests of another in the centre of our being."
C.S. Lewis
"To a person in love, the value of the individual is
intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission."
Charles A. Lindbergh
"The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the
daring."
Henry Wadsworth Longfello
"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows
and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine
vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
Lydia Maria Child
"Do all things with love."
Og Mandino
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive
long after your good health has vanished."
Og Mandino
"This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a
feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of
conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with
joyous amazement, that this was for life."
Thomas Mann
"One man all by himself is nothing. Two people who belong
together make a world."
Hans Margolius
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever."
Francois Mauriac
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the
ones who receive it."
Karl Menninger
"To live without loving is not really to live."
Moliere
"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."
Keiichi Morisata
"If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left
to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by
people calling other people to tell them that they loved them."
Christopher Morley