Aug 29 '10 20 Cute Love Quotes to Make you Smile

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If you’re a hopeless romantic, nothing can bring a smile to your face quite like cute love quotes can. The problem is, finding cute love quotes that aren’t cheesy can be a bit harder than one might imagine. That being said, they are indeed out there. Here are 20 cute love quotes that are anything but cheese.

1. “Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

2. “Love builds bridges where there are none.” ~ R. H. Delaney

3. “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.” ~ Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

4. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ~ Joan Crawford

5. “When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” ~ Elizabeth Bowen

6. “Love is too strong a word to say it too early, but it has too beautiful a meaning to say it too late.” ~ Kurt Cornish

7. “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” ~ Pearl Bailey

8. “Love is the only gold.” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

9. “LOVE: The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ~ Mark Twain

10. “Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.” ~ Josh Billings

11. “I don’t want to live– I want to love first, And live incidentally.” ~ Zelda Fitzgerald,

12. “Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” ~ Jules Renard

13. “Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.” ~ Crystal Middlemas

14. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ~ Franklin P. Jones

15. “Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.” ~ Samuel Johnson

16. “It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.” ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

17. “If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.” ~ Katherine Mansfield

18. “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~ H. L. Mencken

19. “Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love” ~Albert Einstein

20. “Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.” ~ Diane Ackerman

Who says cute love quotes have to be cheesy? These twenty love quotes prove otherwise. The next time you find an anti-romantic in need of romantic inspiration, share these cute love quotes with them and prove that love is worth pursuing!

Aug 28 '10 Insightful Love Quotes to Ponder

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Can the meaning of love be found in insightful love quotes? After all, mankind has been looking for the true definition of the word for generations. While some may insist that true love can not be summed up in words, I personally beg to differ. These insightful love quotes speak volumes.

1. “Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.” ~ Victor Hugo

2. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” ~ Sophocles

3. “It’s better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

4. “Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” ~ Voltaire

5. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” ~ Dorothy Parker

6. “To love another person is to see the face of God.” ~ Les Miserables

7. “Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” ~ Dr. Karl Menninger

8. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.” ~ D. H. Lawrence

9. “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

10. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.” ~ Oscar Wilde

11. “Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.” ~ Matt Zotti

12. “Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.” ~ Author Unknown

13. “Love won’t be tampered with, love won’t go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.” ~ Louise Erdrich

14. “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured – yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.” ~ Barbara De Angelis

It is true that the dictionary does not have an adequate definition of love. After all, it’s not easy to put such passion, fire and depth of emotion into words. These 14 insightful love quotes, however, prove that love can indeed be defined.

Aug 28 '10 15 Famous Love Quotes to Warm you Up for Fall

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With cold weather right around the corner, I thought you might appreciate some famous love quotes to keep you warm in the months ahead. Here are 15 love quotes that are perfect for cuddling near a fire or reading over a cup of hot cocoa.

1. “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” ~ St. Augustine

2. “Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” ~ Mother Theresa

3. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~ Aristotle

4. “Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

5. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” ~ Charles Dickens

6. “There is no disguise that can long conceal where love exists, or simulate it where it doesn’t.” ~ Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

7. “When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.” ~ Brahma

8. “If you love someone, tell them. For hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.” ~ Stephanie Roogle

9. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee the more I have, for both are infinite.” ~ Shakespeare

10. “Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.” ~ Anita Brookner

11. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond

12. “The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.” ~ Margaret Atwood

13. “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

14. “Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.” ~ Proverbs

15. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight. For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There you have it — 15 famous love quotes to warm your toes by. But don’t keep them to yourself! The best way to warm yourself with famous love quotes is to share them with someone you love.

Aug 23 '10 14 Love Quotes to Celebrate Love yourself Week

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I have to say, I’m very happy to see that Love Yourself Week is coming up and I’m ready to celebrate with some great love quotes. Why? Because it’s easy to love others and write quotes about how that feels, but we seem to have a much harder time loving ourselves. So here are 14 great love quotes to remind us that we deserve our own love as much as the next person.

1. “Self-love seems so often unrequited.” ~ Anthony Powell

2. “Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” ~ Veronica A. Shoffstall

3. “If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.” ~ Nicholas de Chamfort

4. “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” ~ Sonya Friedman

5. “You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.” ~ Author Unknown

6. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ~ Lucille Ball

7. “Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.” ~ Karolina Kurkova

8. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” ~ Alan Cohen

9. “To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.” ~ June Jordan

10. “Don’t forget to love yourself.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

11. “If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.” ~ Kristin Chenoweth

12. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha

13. “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” ~W.C. Fields

When it comes down to it, you must first love yourself before you can truly love others and you must love yourself before you can accept that others truly love you. So, if you look at it that way, perhaps Love Yourself Week is one of the most important holidays we celebrate! Let the above twelve quotes remind you of that.

Aug 22 '10 20 Love Quotes to Celebrate the First Day of Spring

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Spring will be here before you know it and love is in the air, so let’s celebrate with 20 great love quotes to announce the arrival of the season on March 20th! The grass will be green soon and the mounds of snow will become a distant memory. The birds will chirp, the butterflies will flutter. Here are 20 wonderful love quotes to celebrate such a wondrous time of year.

1. “O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day; which now shows all the beauty of the sun, and by and by a cloud takes all away.”
~ William Shakespeare

2. “Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”
~ Thomas Hardy

3. “Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest!”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4. “Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain.”
~ William Shakespeare

5. “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

6. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
~ Roy Croft

7. “What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
~ Albert Einstein

9. “Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.”
~ Crystal Middlemas

10. “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
~ D.H.Lawrence

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

12. “In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

13. “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine

14. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
~ David Viscott

15. “When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
~ J. K. Rowling

16. “There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.”
~ Charles Morgan

17. “Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.”
~Malagasy Proverb

18. “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” ~ Mark Overby

19. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
~Peter Ustinov

20. “They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there’s moonlight all about and there’s no moon above.”
~E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and Fred Saidy

Get ready for Spring — and get ready for romance! On March 20th we’ll kiss Winter goodbye and say hello to a much sweeter season. The above 20 love quotes will help you prepare yourself for all spring has to offer.