Quotes on Love

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's because you are ready to fall in love.

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person see that you're a valuable, estimable person, and that your love is worth something. Then one day you open the paper and glance at the Personals column, and there you see that your loved one has placed an ad... seeking someone worthwhile to love and be loved by.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

I was very lucky to have a father who read to us when we were children. And he didn't just read books - he brought them alive. We couldn't wait for the next chapter. So my love of reading started early and has stayed with me all my life.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.