"I do beseech you of your pardon for too much loving you." -William Shakespeare "To love at all is to be vulnerable." -C.S. Lewis "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back it's yours to keep. If it doesn't, it was never meant to be." -author unknown "Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air, clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." -Christopher Marlowe "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind." -William Shakespeare "You never lose by loving. you always lose by holding back" -Barbara De Angelis "All you need is love." -John Lennon "I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." -Alfred, Lord Tennyson "People love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel." -Irwin Federman "Love is not what we become, but who we already are." -Steven Levine "Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous, or conceited, or proud; love is not ill-mannered, or selfish, or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up: its faith, hope and patience never fail." -1 Corinthians 13:4-7 "To fall in love is awfully simple, to fall out of love is simply awful." -unknown "For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those'it might have been'." -John Greenleaf whittier "To be able to say how much you love is to love but little."-Petrarch "If you want it, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse." -Sunjay Gupta "But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning." -unknown "Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love." -Charlie Brown "Love is a fire, but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you cannot tell." -unknown "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end." -Disraeli "If I know what love is, it is because of you." -Herman Hesse "How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to." -unknown "The love in our hearts wasn't put there to stay, for love isn't love until you give it away" -unknown "You can't describe the meaning of love. The answer lies within your heart" -C.P. "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread. re-made all the time, made new." Ursula Leguin "Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile, so when you are lonely, remember, it's true, somebody, somewhere is thinking of you" unknown "The way to love anything, is to realize it may be lost" G.K. Chesterton "There is one pain, I often feel, that you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you" Ashleigh Brilliant "There's a smile in my heart, that I've waited my whole life for' unknown "A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses" -unknown "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which became a habit" Peter Ustinov "Since I can't be with you right now, I will have to be content just dreaming about when we wil be together again." Susan Polis Schutz "The hardest part of dreaming about someone you love is having to wake up" unknown "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep" Cinderella "I think we dream so we dont have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." -Hobbes "A memory of true love is like a favorite song; no matter how many times it plays again, you never get tired of it." -unknown "I never felt true love until I was with you, and I never felt true sadness until you left me." -unknown "Only a person who has not felt true love can move on in life saying 'there are lots of other fish in the sea" -unknown "True love is when you have to watch a friend leave, with the knowledge that you might never see him again. But you know he'll be in your mind and heart forever." -unknown "Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned." -unknown "I hate the stars, because I look at the same ones as you do, without you" -unknown "Loving someone that doesn't love you is like reaching for a star. you know you'll never reach it, but you just got to keep trying." -unknown "I wish I had the guts to walk away and forget about what we had, but I can't because I know you won't come after me, and that's what hurts the most." -unknown "What do you do when the only one who can make you stop crying is the one who is making you cry?" -unknown "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." -La Rochefoucauld "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." -unknown "A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart." -unknown "Love is like quicksand, the deeper you fall in, the harder it is to get out." -unknown "To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind" -Theophile Gauthier "Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." Karen Casey "An immature love says I love you because I need you, but a mature love says I need you because I love you." -unknown "Let your heart guide you, but listen closely because it whispers." -Land Before Time "Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment when love begins but we always recognize the moment it ends?" -unknown "You don't get to choose, you just fall" -unknown "Love is like Heaven, but it can hurt like Hell" -unknown "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I." -unknown "If the love you think you felt goes away quickly, then what you felt was never love to begin with." -Henry Mac "I want to be happy because he's happy...but how can I be happy knowing that I'm not the one who's making him smile?" -unknown "I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hair, than eternity without one" -City of Angels "People always fantasize about true love having a happy ending! What a pity, they don't know that true love doesn't have an ending." -unknown "Always remember that if a person loved you once, after a hundred years, there will still be some of that love, no matter how much he denies it." -unknown "Love is a terrible thing. There's no pain so great as the pain of love; the quiet persistent pain is totally different from anything you have felt before." -unknown "If love can be avoided simply by closing your eyes, I wouldn't blink at all for I don't want to let a second pass having fallen out of love with you." -unknown "Someday, someone will hold you the way that I do. Someday, someone will say she loves you too. But you know, someday, somehow, this very someone will never love you the way that I do." -unknown "You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it." -unknown "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." -unknown "A million words would not bring you back, I know because I've tried. Neither will a trillion tears, I know because I've cried." -unknown "Nothing is more painful than realizing that he meant everything to you, but you meant absolutely nothing to him." -unknown "I dropped a tear into the ocean...when I find it is the day I will stop loving you." -unknown "If I had one wish for you my love, it would be for you to someday be able to feel for someone as much love as I have always had for you." -Natalie E. Guimond