Quotes

Physicists say often that the moon does not shine without the sun, and that when deprived of this light, it is robbed of all benefit of heat and brightness and presents to humans a dark ashen sphere.

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To half my heart and part of my soul: what I am I entrust to you. I am yours as long as I live...

From the letters of Heloise and Abelard

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The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating—in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from that fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.

Anne Morriss, Starbucks customer in NYC “organization builder, restless American citizen, optimist”

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I think you need respect for the other person as an adult—you need to see them as an individual, with strengths and weaknesses, and quirks and flaws. That’s what attraction’s about, really, not how blue their eyes are, or how cute their figure is. That’s what lasts fifty years. It’s that something you can’t quite put your finger on. You need to feel comfortable enough to be yourself, but not so comfortable that you stop bothering.

From The Little Lady Agency and The Prince by Hestor Browne

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He was part of my dream, of course…but then, I was part of his dream, too.

From Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

From The History Of Love by Nicole Krauss

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Fifteen years ago I made a choice. And I keep making it every day. That’s what marriage is.

From Grey’s Anatomy; Valentine’s Day Massacre

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Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours.

Beethoven

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Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

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I hope your love is modern enough to get you through each day, and old-fashioned enough to get you through a lifetime together.

Mrs. Cupcake on Weddingbee.com

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Always kiss like it's the first time and the last time.

Leap Year

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Love is the only shocking act left on the planet.

Valentine's Day

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

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Remember tonight…for it is the beginning of always.

Dante Alighieri

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I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”

From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Love is old, love is new, love is all, love is you.

Because by The Beatles

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If you play it right, the honeymoon is never over.

Mrs. Taco on Weddingbee.com

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The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Alain de Botton

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Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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I love you not only for who you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.

Roy Croft