"The first duty of love is to listen."

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which

we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that,

for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union.

"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until

they have been married a quarter of a century. - Mark Twain

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. - Benjamin Franklin

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.

As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. - Bruce Lee

you're not the kind who reads. where the hell do you get these from??!?

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

interesting. why so emo?

but i like some of the shorter quotes

short or long.. all same