Quotes - on love and life.....

Charles Edwin Markham -
“We are all blind until we see That in the human plan
Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man.
Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes?
We build the world in vain Unless the builder also grows.”

“For all your days prepare And meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear — When you are the hammer, strike.”


“He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle that took him in!”

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

If you have it Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that was very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk.
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
-Dorothy Parker