Quotes home page rss feed, love, romance, relationships and more quotes can be found here. http://www.lovemessage.org/ 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/23 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/23 2010-07-19 14:00:07 Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/29 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/29 2010-07-19 14:00:06 Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/20 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/20 2010-07-19 14:00:06 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/19 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/19 2010-07-19 14:00:05 If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/22 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/22 2010-07-19 14:00:05 If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/28 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/28 2010-07-19 14:00:04 It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/18 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/18 2010-07-19 14:00:04 Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/27 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/27 2010-07-19 14:00:03 You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/21 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/21 2010-07-19 14:00:03 There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/20 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/20 2010-07-19 14:00:02 I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God--the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures; I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward, Nature's good And God's. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/12 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/12 2010-07-18 14:00:07 Words that weep, and tears that speak. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/16 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/16 2010-07-18 14:00:07 Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/11 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/11 2010-07-18 14:00:06 Nothing dries sooner than a tear. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/15 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/15 2010-07-18 14:00:06 Love gives itself; it is not bought. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/26 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/26 2010-07-18 14:00:05 We look through gloom and storm-drift Beyond the years: The soul would have no rainbow Hard the eyes no tears. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/14 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/14 2010-07-18 14:00:05 For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/13 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/13 2010-07-18 14:00:04 There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/24 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/24 2010-07-18 14:00:03 Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/25 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/25 2010-07-18 14:00:03 We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/23 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/23 2010-07-18 14:00:01 Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/17 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/17 2010-07-17 14:00:08 I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/19 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/19 2010-07-17 14:00:08 Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/16 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/16 2010-07-17 14:00:07 A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/12 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/12 2010-07-17 14:00:07 There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. - Lord Byron , http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/11 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/11 2010-07-17 14:00:06 I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/22 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/22 2010-07-17 14:00:05 She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking; But there is something when man's eye appears Wet, still more disagreeable and striking. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/10 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/10 2010-07-17 14:00:05 First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/21 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/21 2010-07-17 14:00:04 To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/18 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/18 2010-07-17 14:00:03 There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/10 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/10 2010-07-17 14:00:02 What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain, That starts at once--bright pure--from Pity's mine, Already polish'd by the hand divine! http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/9 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/9 2010-07-16 14:00:06 He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/20 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/20 2010-07-16 14:00:05 Rich with the spoils of nature. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/9 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/9 2010-07-16 14:00:05 I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/19 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/19 2010-07-16 14:00:04 Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind! http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/8 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/8 2010-07-16 14:00:04 Nature means Necessity. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/6 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/6 2010-07-16 14:00:03 At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/7 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/7 2010-07-16 14:00:03 Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/18 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/18 2010-07-16 14:00:02 You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/17 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/17 2010-07-16 14:00:02 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/17 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/17 2010-07-16 14:00:01 The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/5 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/5 2010-07-15 14:00:09 A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/16 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/16 2010-07-15 14:00:08 To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/15 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/15 2010-07-15 14:00:08 Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness . http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/16 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/16 2010-07-15 14:00:07 To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/15 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/15 2010-07-15 14:00:06 Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers! http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/4 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/4 2010-07-15 14:00:06 Soul meets soul on lovers lips. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/15 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/15 2010-07-15 14:00:05 No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/3 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/3 2010-07-15 14:00:04 Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/8 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/8 2010-07-15 14:00:03 So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/7 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/7 2010-07-15 14:00:02 Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/6 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/6 2010-07-14 14:00:08 Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/14 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/14 2010-07-14 14:00:07 And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep." http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/5 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/5 2010-07-14 14:00:07 Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears! http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/3 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/3 2010-07-14 14:00:06 A child of those tears. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/4 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/4 2010-07-14 14:00:06 How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved! http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/14 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/14 2010-07-14 14:00:05 While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/14 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/14 2010-07-14 14:00:04 There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/13 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/13 2010-07-14 14:00:04 We weep when we are born, Not when we die! http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/2 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/2 2010-07-14 14:00:03 To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/13 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/13 2010-07-14 14:00:02 If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/13 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/13 2010-07-13 17:25:06 I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/12 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/12 2010-07-13 17:25:05 Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/12 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/12 2010-07-13 17:25:05 Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/12 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/12 2010-07-13 17:25:04 Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/2 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/2 2010-07-13 17:25:04 All mankind loves a lover. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/11 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/11 2010-07-13 17:25:03 It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/11 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/11 2010-07-13 17:25:03 Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/11 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/11 2010-07-13 17:25:02 Fountains of tears. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/1 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/tears-quotes/1 2010-07-13 17:25:02 If there's a power above us, he must delight in virtue. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/1 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/nature-quotes/1 2010-07-13 17:25:01 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/1 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/1 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness . http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/2 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/2 2010-07-11 19:12:45 The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start counting them on one hand, you don't need many fingers. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/3 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/3 2010-07-11 19:12:45 In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/4 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/4 2010-07-11 19:12:45 You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/5 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/5 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/6 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/6 2010-07-11 19:12:45 If you judge people you have no time to love them. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/7 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/7 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/8 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/8 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/9 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/9 2010-07-11 19:12:45 There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/10 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/love-quotes/10 2010-07-11 19:12:45 It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. •Hermann Hesse Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. •Harriet Lerner Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. •Anthony J D'Angelo Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. •Richard M DeVos Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. •Sidney Malwed Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. •Albert Schweitzer The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. •Joan Baez For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. •Warren Beatty The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice. •Sandra Bullock My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. •Lord Byron In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. •Angela Carter I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. •Helen Hunt If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. •Octavio Paz The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. •Alexandria Penney It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. •Todd Ruthman When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring. •Bob Seger If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. •Montel Williams Assumptions are the termites of relationships. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/1 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/1 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/2 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/2 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/3 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/3 2010-07-11 19:12:45 The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/4 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/4 2010-07-11 19:12:45 What is forgiven is usually well remembered. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/5 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/5 2010-07-11 19:12:45 A man must learn to forgive himself. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/6 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/6 2010-07-11 19:12:45 But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/7 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/7 2010-07-11 19:12:45 The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/8 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/8 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/9 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/9 2010-07-11 19:12:45 One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/10 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/relationships-quotes/10 2010-07-11 19:12:45 She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/1 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/1 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages: For no one cares for matrimonial cooings. There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss. Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life? http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/2 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/2 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/3 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/3 2010-07-11 19:12:45 He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/4 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/4 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Romance is the poetry of literature. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/5 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/5 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/6 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/6 2010-07-11 19:12:45 As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/7 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/7 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/8 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/8 2010-07-11 19:12:45 I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/9 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/9 2010-07-11 19:12:45 Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/10 http://quotes.lovemessage.org/romance-quotes/10 2010-07-11 19:12:45