Loving Daughter Quotes and Poems

Here's a collection of daughter quotes to gently remind yourself,

 and her;

 of how precious your daughter REALLY is;

 to you.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition;

but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

- Joseph Addison

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

- John Gregory Brown

Never grow a wishbone, daughter,

where you backbone ought to be.

- Original Author unknown
Often Attributed to:Clementine Paddleford

A daughter may outgrow your lap

but she will never out grow your heart

-Original Author Unknown

A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight,

giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious,

everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds.

- Barbara Cage

A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.

- Original Author Unknown

A daughter is a gift of love.

- Original Author Unknown

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.

- Original Author Unknown

A daughter is a mother's gender partner,

 her closest ally in the family confederacy,

 an extension of her self. 

- Original Author Unknown

A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous...

full of beauty and forever beautiful...

loving and caring and truly amazing.

- Deanna Beisser

A daughter is a treasure –

 and a cause of sleeplessness.

- Ben Sirach

A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give.

- Laurel Atherton

A daughter is the happy memories of the past,

the joyful moments of the present,

and the hope and promise of the future. 

- Original Author Unknown

A mother's treasure is her daughter. 

- Catherine Pulsifer

Daughter are angles sent from above to fill our heart with unending love.

- J. Lee

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

- Bruce Barton

Mothers and daughters are closest,

when daughters become mothers.

- Original Author Unknown

Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife,

but my daughter's my daughter all her life.

-Original Author Unknown-

Quoted by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, from an old Irish saying.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures,

the dearest possessions of our homes,

and the objects of our most watchful love.

- Margaret E. Sangster

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

- Euripides

What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar, confidently;
 in her own sky, whenever, wherever and whatever that may be.

© Al (Alex, Alexander) D. Girvan-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

Family Quotes that Speak about Unconditional Love

Here's a wonderful collection of family quotes to help express your deepest sentiments for your closest and most beloved people on Earth.

These meaningful quotes about families will touch, inspire and move you: they are fabulous for your cards, scrapbooks, letters or as reminders about the importance of families.

Wanting a heartwarming quote to inspire a family member? Feeling homesick and longing for comforting words? Needing some inspiring words to remind you of family ties?

Whatever your reasons, you've come to the right place for quotes about family. So enjoy! 

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-- John Bowring

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
-- Helen Keller

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
-- George Moore

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
-- Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
-- Milton R. Saperstein

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
-- Jane Howard

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
-- Author Unknown

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
-- Brad Henry

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
-- Evan Esar

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
-- Gail Lumet Buckley

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
-- Marsha Norman

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
-- Thomas Moore

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
-- Virginia Satir:

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
-- George Burns

Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
-- Sidonie Gruenberg

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
-- Anais Nin

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
-- Trey Parker

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
-- Francis Bacon

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.
-- Auguste Napier

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-- Alex Haley

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
-- Isaac Rosenfeld

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
-- Eva Burrows

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
-- Elizabeth II

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
-- Elbert Hubbard

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
-- Anthony Brandt

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
-- George Santayana

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
-- Dodie Smith

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
-- Erma Bombeck

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
-- Ring Lardner

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.
-- Lee Iacocca

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
-- Barbara Bush

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
-- Thomas Jefferson

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
-- Marquise de Sévigné

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
-- George Eliot

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
-- Joyce Brothers

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
-- Desmond Tutu

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
-- Jim Rohn

MORE MEANINGFUL QUOTES TO REMEMBER AND THINK ABOUT

Do you know what brings meaning into your life? Work achievements? Raising beautiful kids? Owning a dream house by the beach? Having a great love marriage? Working at a home business?

Let the wisdom of these meaningful quotes speak to you. May these great quotes bring more clarity and meaning into your life, letting you have a glimpse of what truly matters in life. 

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When placed in command - take charge. 


Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honoured.

When you feel like nothing is there but pain and hurt and great despair, that is when we know we need to not give up, whatever it is we're going through.

Funk

When your marrer bone seems ‘oller,

And you’re glad you ain’t no taller,

And you’re all a-shakin’ like you ‘ad the chills;

When your skin creeps like a pullet’s,

And you’re duckin all the bullets,

And your green s gorgonzola round the gills;

When your legs seem made of jelly,

And you’re squeamish in the belly,

And you want to turn about and do a bunk:

For Gawd’s sake, kid don’t show it!

Don’t let your mateys know it—

You’re just sufferin’ from funk, funk funk.

Of course there’s no denyin’

That it ain’t so easy tryin’

To grin and grip your rifle by the butt,

When the ‘ole world rips asunder,

And you sees yer pal go under,

As a bunch of shrapnel sprays ‘im on the nut;

I admit it’s ‘ard contrivin’

When you ‘ears the shells arrivin’,

To discover you’re a bloomin’ bit o’ spunk;

But, my lad, you’ve got to do it,

For wot ‘E ‘ates is funk, funk, funk.

So stand up son; look gritty,

And just ‘um a lively ditty,

And only be afraid to be afraid;

Just ‘old yer rifle steady,

And ‘ave yer bay’nit ready’

For that’s the way  good soldier-men is made.

And if you ‘as to die,

As it sometimes ‘appens, why,

Far better die a ‘ero than a skunk;

A-doin’ of yer bit,

And so—to ‘ell with it,

There ain’t no bloomin’ funk, funk, funk

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
-- Barbara Bush

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
-- Helen Keller

Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.
-- Sara Paddison

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
-- Ruth Gordon

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.
-- Author Unknown

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
-- Groucho Marx

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
-- George Washington Carver

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
-- Robert Fulghum

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
-- Anaias Nin

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
-- Katharine Hepburn

If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the past's effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the cause of the future.
-- Majjhima Nikaya

It's never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise.
-- Nancy Thayer

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
-- Blaise Pascal

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Marston

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
-- Betty Smith

Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.
-- Sophia Loren

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
-- Author Unknown

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
-- Ralph Blum

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
-- Dale Carnegie

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-- John Quincy Adams

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
-- Dalai Lama

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-- Allan K. Chalmers

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
-- Orlando A. Battista

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Lady Dorothy Nevill

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
-- Alice Walker

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
-- Goethe

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
-- Phyllis Bottome

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
-- Faith Baldwin

To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?
-- Katherine Graham

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
-- Fredrick Koeing

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
-- Thich Nhat Hahn

Whoever I am and whatever I am doing, some kind Excellence is within my reach.
-- John W. Gardiner

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
--Kahlil Gibran

Relationship Quotes

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Relationship quotes talk about the importance of cultivating meaningful relationships in your life.

No MAN is an island; but WOMEN are especially known to maintain good relationships with family, friends and others. It's within a woman's inherent nature to want to reach out and connect with people.

If you were to recall the most important moments in your life, you might realize that most of these moments were shared with someone else. Yes, you'll need solace time, privacy and chill out sessions on your own, but majority of your time is spent with someone else, be it your husband, kids, co-workers or students.

So let these relationship quotes bring new perspectives about one of the most crucial aspects of your life, your relationships with others.

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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
-- Hugh Prather

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
-- Henry Winkler

Be the kind of person you would like to be with. Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts
-- Joseph F. Newton Men

Before you try to change others, remember how hard it is to change yourself.
-- Bill Bluestein

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.
-- M Scott Peck

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-- Anais Nin

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
-- Margaret Mead

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.
-- Deepak Chopra

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting.
-- Todd Ruthman

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
-- Sidney J. Harris

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
-- Stephen R. Covey

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
-- Oprah Winfrey

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
-- Dinah Craik

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement...all success... all achievement in real life grows.
-- Ben Stein

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
-- Wayne Dyer

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
-- Emily Kimbrough

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
-- Swedish Proverb

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
-- Anthony Robbins

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, can forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
-- Author Unknown

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
-- Miles Franklin

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
-- Stephen R. Covey

When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.
-- Martin Walsh

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
-- Frederick Buechner

More Love Quotes and Love Quotations

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
-- Leo F. Buscaglia

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
-- Author Unknown

Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
-- From the movie Moulin Rouge

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
-- Leo Tolstoy

And here is my heart which beats only for you.
-- Paul Verlaine

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet...
-- Plato

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu

Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to our souls.
-- Author Unknown

But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
-- Robert Burns

Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
-- Author Unknown

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
-- Oscar Hammerstein

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
-- Erica Jong

Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
-- Anonymous

Don't hug me, it only makes me want to never let go.
-- Allison Mosher

Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it.
-- Author Unknown

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.
-- Leland Thomas

Goodnight! Goodnight!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.
-- William Shakespeare

I am so glad that you are here... It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
-- Goethe

I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can't even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.
-- Sarah Mimnaugh

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
-- Julia Roberts

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
-- Alice Walker

I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.
-- Basia

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
-- Ray Croft

I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.
-- Hobbes

I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...I'm sorry I can't help myself, I'm in love with you.
-- Author Unknown

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
-- Emily Dickinson

If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.
-- Author Unknown

If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.
-- Author Unknown

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
-- Anonymous

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-- Mother Teresa

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

In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek.
-- French proverb

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
-- Hans Nouwens

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-- Maya Angelou

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

Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance.
-- Author Unknown

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
--Kahlil Gibran

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
-- William Shakespeare

Love demands all and has a right to it.
-- Beethoven

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-- Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time,...made new.
-- Le Guin

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.
-- Katharine Hepburn

Love is a fan club with only two fans.
-- Anonymous

Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.
-- Lamar Cole

Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
-- Author Unknown

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

Love is a never ending feeling.
-- Adeil Prince

Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.
-- J. Ghetto

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
-- Eurpides

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
-- Helen Keller

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.
-- Kamila

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process.
-- Henry Beyle Stendahl

Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent its coming back.
-- Nigerian Proverb

Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.
-- Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
-- Kay Knudsen

Love is not something you look for,
Love is something you become.
-- Langley

Love is smiling on the inside and out.
-- Jennifer Williams

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A Heinlein

Love is the blueprint for happiness.
-- Lamar Cole

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 many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
-- Vincent Van Gogh

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.
-- Michael W.

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.
-- Oscar Wilde

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
-- Barbara Johnson

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
-- Author Unknown

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
-- Gretchen Kemp

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
-- Saint Augustine

So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee.
-- Robert Browning

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
-- Thomas Merton

The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
-- J. Krishnamurti

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller

The word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you.
-- Author Unknown

The world is filled with reasons why I love you.
-- Author Unknown

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
-- Author Unknown

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
-- Samuel Butler

True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
-- Author Unknown

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
-- Sam Keen

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
-- Tom Robbins

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-- Helen Keller

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

When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.
-- Author Unknown

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
-- Keith Sweat

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

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
-- Barbara De Angelis