How Do I Love Thee?

Of course, for Cristina - always.



And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.
~ Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~ Victor Hugo ~

You know you are in love
when you see the world in her eyes,
and her eyes everywhere in the world.
~ David Levesque ~

I love you - those three words have my life in them.
~ Alexandrea to Nicholas III ~

I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.
~ Willam Shakespeare ~

I have loved to the point of madness;
That which is called madness,
That which to me,
Is the only sensible way to love.
~ F. Sagan ~

It's not that I can't live without you,
It's that I don't even want to try.
~ Source Unknown ~

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate
Before it has cooled off.
It takes you by surprise at first,
But keeps you warm for a long time.
~ Anonymous ~

Of what does a true kiss consist? Ambrosia on which gods subsist, Tremendous heat which sun can't give, God's heaven in one moment lived.
~ Abelardo Subido ~

My love for you is a journey;
Starting at forever,
And ending at never.
~ Anonymous ~

Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.
~ Anonymous ~

True poets don't write
Their thoughts with a pen...
They release the ink that flows
From within their heart.
~ Anonymous ~

The only things in life you regret,
Are the risks that you didn't take.
~ Anonymous ~

You love simply because you cannot help it.
~ Kim Anderson ~

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself
But if your love and must needs have desires,
Let these be your desires:
- To melt and be like a running brook
- That sings its melody to the night.
- To know the pain of too much tenderness.
- To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
- And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
- To wake at dawn with a winged heart
- And give thanks for another day of loving;
- To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
- To return home at eventide with gratitude;
- And then to sleep with a prayer
- For the beloved in your heart
- And a song of praise upon your lips.
~ Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

Love me without fear
Trust me without questioning
Need me without demanding
Want me without restrictions
Accept me without change
Desire me without inhibitions
For a love so free....
Will never fly away.
~ Dick Sutphen ~

The greatest weakness of most humans
Is their hesitancy to tell others,
How much they love them
While they're alive.
~ O.A. Battista ~

Accept the things
To which fate binds you and
Love the people with whom fate
Brings you together
But do so with all your heart.
~ Marcus Aurelius ~

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
~ Ralph Connor ~

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
~ Thomas Fuller ~

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love.
~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
~ Honore de Balzac ~

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu ~

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
~ Germaine De Stael ~

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
~ Samuel Lover ~

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery ~

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

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
~ Sir Hugh Walpole ~

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
~ Erich Fromm ~

Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen ~

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
~ Leo Buscaglia ~

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.
~ Unknown ~

Love is an act of endless forgiveness
A tender look which becomes a habit.
~ Peter Ustinov ~

But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
~ Sir Walter Raleigh ~

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

Love is strong yet delicate.
It can be broken.
To truly love is to understand this.
To be in love is to respect this.
~ Stephen Packer ~