Love Quotations from Great Writers

Valentine’s Best Loved Romantic Quotations and Sayings

© Tel Asiado

Numerous quotations on love and passion are found online and in books. Best thoughts and insights from great writers often flow with such intensity and affection. They are captured here to remember Valentine’s Day.

Thoughfully Chosen Love Quotes for Valentine’s Day:

“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” ~William Blake (1757-1827)

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

“Whoso loves … Believes the impossible.” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

“O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire.” ~Robert Browning (1812-1889)

“Why did she love him? Curious fool – be still – Is human love the growth of human will?” ~Lord Byron (1788-1824)

“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.” ~John Donne (1573-1631)

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” ~Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

“Love and joy are twins, or born of each other.” ~William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

“Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove. That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, woods or steepy mountain yields.” ~Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) from “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

“Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.” ~Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) from “Letters to a Young Poet”

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outwards together in the same direction.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)

“If thou remember’st not the slightest folly, that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.” ~William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from “As You Like It”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ~William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.” ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“… and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.” ~Thornton Wilder (1897-1976)

“The best portion of a good man’s life: his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” ~William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Plato once quipped: “At the touch of love, one becomes a poet.” And who is not challenged yet inspired by that over-quoted Bible’s love chapter, found in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 13, that ends with “… and now these three – faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Related Link:

It’s Love Wellness: I’m Lovable, You’re Lovable

Sources:

• Dictionary of Quotations, Bloomsbury, 1994
• Dictionary of Writers, Larousse, edited by Rosemary Goring, 1994
• Love quotations, edited by Helen Exley, Exley Publications, 1992

(Note: This piece was originally posted at Suite101, 13the Feb 2008)

Just Be What You Are

Was it Katharine Hepburn who once said, “I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.”  Great thought.

I always think that in being comes gratitude, whether it’s a fun day or a challenging one. When we are given a new day then we should try to be alert with new sights. Some of us had Easter break somewhere, at least out of our homes. A great respite.

The first good news first thing in the morning is we are alive, we are breathing and our hearts are working. The whole day is a challenge to use our brains or not.  *Just kidding*

Have a good one.

My 1st Anniversary at Suite101

Special Datebook:  March 7, 2008.

*A flower blooms even on forgotten lanes.*

Something for me to celebrate - it’s my first anniversary at Suite101, my virtual family… serving as my greatest therapy during my most challenging times last year.

Thank God for my writing muse… thank you S101 for letting my pen continuously flow despite dancing red flags, and all that.

How sweet of you Suite101.

Lovely Historic Garden Landscapes

Historic Garden Landscapes

A Summer Garden Travel Guide

© Georgene A. Bramlage

Aug 29, 2007

Here is a garden travel guide for late summer. These ten historic garden landscape articles can help to plan a day outing 0r a lengthy trip or act as a virtual excursion.

Overview:

Garden travels, day outings, lengthy trips or virtual excursions begin with home-based exploration and research. The ten articles selected here describe historic garden landscapes in North America. They make an easy task of deciding which gardens to visit. 

Here’s the full article … [Historic Garden Landscapes] 

(Note: It’s probably winter in your part of the world. In mine, it’s going to be autumn soon, but I can’t help featuring this summer piece written by a friend and colleague. The title says it all – lovely historic landscape gardens!  Enjoy her offering!)

Falling in Love with Life

Falling in Love with Life 

By Jo Rosee, Guest Writer 

“Most people seek to fall in love with life and the people in it.” Humans are complicated and, unnecessarily, make life much more complicated. Since we first started living, all we really want is to fall in love with life and the people in it.  We abbreviate the truth, don’t reflect, don’t commit, or don’t make appropriate changes, even when opportunities are infront of us  to keep us slotted into our chosen path. Most often we get sucked into other people’s agendas, unnecessary situations and humiliations because we fail to live our own life appropriately, that is, what it has been meant for us.

[Further reflections of the writer after attending a funeral few weeks back...]

The eulogy was about the ‘dash’ between the date one is born and the date one dies. The ‘dash’ represents the life of the person.

If our whole life’s span depended on the measurement of the ‘dash’,  it would be true to say, we could make our life up as we go.  It’s after all ours, not anyone else’s,  isn’t it! Therefore, we can feel proud of every micro achievement we make in that ‘plan of life,’ be it big or small. Why? Because we only need to measure up to ourselves. Since each person is unique, if we know that the dash represents what we do – decisions we make daily, hourly, and by the minute - we can easily ‘fall in love with life’ to achieve our plans. That is not saying, we should not help others, or share in commitments, or not take responsibility seriously.

 

 

 

‘Falling in love with life’ is about being happy with our life. It is about our commitment to ourselves and to our plans first before others. Being happy with life and being alive allow us to ‘fall in love’ with who we have or want to interact with us (little or greatly), along the way.

Being in love with life may not always give us the desired result. Consciously or not, we might anticipate, calculate and manipulate, but we cannot dictate others and their reactions to life. We should not. We do, however, need to find time to reflect and to give ourselves the opportunity to change what we don’t want to accept, and what works well for us, in order to continue to ‘fall in love with life and the people in it’.

Shaping our ‘dash’ is a self-commitment and a love of life. It also makes physical age immaterial. Our life journey should not be judged or based on other people’s opinion. As individuals, we should set aside a time and a space for reflection, a breather, to pave way for that needed mind-clearing decision, if only to honestly fall in love with life.

New Year’s Tips for New You

Focus Resolutions on Getting the Most out of Life, Now

© Tel Asiado

Dec 30, 2007

New Year’s tips to a fresh start – for a healthier, calmer, and less stressful life.

The New Year means giving yourself another chance at life, a fresh start. Some might have prepared their resolutions, while others can’t be bothered but that doesn’t mean they haven’t mentally prepared themselves their own resolve. Always, it’s the time to plan carefully, set goals and prioritize. By doing them, simple things can be enjoyed with a calmer and less stressed living. Here are some tips or reminders to consider.

Here’s the article in full … [New Year Tips for New You]

Friends

Who are our friends?

Friends help us to be more ourselves, the person we are intended to be. Others leave us when the time is come, others continue to be, while new ones become. 

Yesterday I was with one dear friend, an ex-colleague. We don’t see each other often, we pursue different careers. But when we need each other’s support, one is there for the other.

A friend is someone who encourages us to to improve or to try new things… who share thoughts and ideas, thoughtfully agree or disagree, listen actively… and because they are our friends, they want us to be the best we can be.

A friend is someone we are comfortable with when with her or him.  

We are extremely blest, a big bonus, when we have common interests and passions with our friends. With this friend, I am!

This friend of mine absolutement sees the good in life.

Talk was good, coffee was hot, cookies delicious, time seemed too short. This one particular friend?  Her home oozes with joy, in a delightful place called Beaumont Hills.

I was with a friend…    

(Jo and John, thanks for the lovely welcome, the comfortable sharing… and the beautiful images. Tel.)

Spiritual Journal Importance

Why Creating a Faithbook is a Powerful Spiritual Tool

© Angela England

Jul 22, 2007

“Do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart” Deuteronomy 4:9. Creating a Faithbook or Spiritual Journal can be a powerful memory tool.

Creating a Faithbook or Spiritual Journal can be a powerful way to remember what the Lord has done in your life. It is easy to forget, during the difficult times of life, how far He has brought us.

Here’s the full article… [Spiritual Journal Importance]