Saturday, November 13, 2010

Top Love Quotes & Sayings of All Time

The following is our collection of Quotes about love or Romance that we feel are the top quoted quotes of all time. We have not placed these quotes in any particular order. Make sure to check them all out, they are great! (See what users like yourself ranked as the top Love Quotes.)

1. "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous."
--Ingrid Bergmen

2. Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin6. "Love is the beauty of the soul."
--St. Augustine

3. "My night has become a sunny dawn because of you."
--Ibn Abbad

4. "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
--Margaret Anderson

5. "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."
--Janos Arnay
7. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
--Aristotle

8. "Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."
--Aphra Behn

9. "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
--Sarah Bernhardt

10. "In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life."
--Bliss and Cerney

11. "Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks..."
--John Dunne

12. "What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes..."
--Elizabeth Barret Browning

13. "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach..."
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14. "Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."
--Robert Browning
15. "But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever."
--Robert Burns

16. "She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."
--Lord Byron

17. "Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me."
--Lord Byron

18. "I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you."
--Roy Croft
19. "You're nothing short of my everything."
--Ralph Block

20. "The only true gift is a portion of yourself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. "Thou art to me a delicious torment."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

22. "Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart."
--Euripides

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

24. "I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path."
--Andre Gide

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

26. "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

27. "What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven."
--Victor Hugo

28. "It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands."
--Jaka

29. "Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."
--John Keats

30. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
--Helen Keller

31. "... 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

32. "When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness."
--Amy Lowell

33. "Make me immortal with a kiss."
--Christopher Marlowe

34. "Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."
--Christopher Marlowe

35. "Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart."
--Alphonse Marie de la Martine

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

37. "We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses."
--Pablo Neruda

38. "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it...you and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
--George Moore

39. "In love there are two things: bodies and words."
--Joyce Carol Oates

40. "I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves."
--Rumi

41. "I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."
--Vita Sackville-West

42. "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

43. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

44. "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
--George Sand

45. "Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart."
--Robert Sexton

46. "My heart is ever at your service."
--William Shakespeare

47. "The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."
--William Shakespeare

48. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
--Alexander Smith

49. "I am my beloved, and my beloved is me."
--Song of Solomon

50. "Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango."
--Srzgarakarika

51. "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."
--Karen Sunde

52. "Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire..."
--A. C. Swinburne

53. "Love is friendship set on fire."
--Jeremy Taylor

54. "Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again."
--Unknown

55. "Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile..."
--Unknown

56. "I see my fated stars in your eyes. They melt me like the sun does snow."
--Unknown

57. "The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart."
--Unknown

58. "To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."
--Unknown

59. "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand."
--Unknown

60. "If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever."
--Unknown

61. "Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you."
--Unknown

62. "Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet."
--Unknown

63. "The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze."
--Unknown

64. "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense."
--Vincent van Gogh

65. "Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto."
--Lope de Vega

66. "Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you."
--Paul Verlaine

67. "When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?"
--Wolf and Page

68. "The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
--Josiah G. Holland

69. "From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being."
--Unknown

70. "The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life."
--Sir Hugh Walpole

71. "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

72. "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
--Sam Keen

73. "The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
--Victor Hugo

74. "True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
--Antoine De Saint-Exupery

75. "Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."
--Germaine De Stael

76. "The life and love we create is the life and love we live."
--Leo Buscaglia

77. "For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it."
--Ivan Panin

78. "Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals."
--J. Isham

79. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
--Lao Tzu

80. "The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss."
--Unknown

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

82. "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
--Thomas Fuller

83. "Paradise is always where love dwells."
--Jean Paul F. Richter

84. "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
--Honore de Balzac

85. "We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end."
--Benjamin Disraeli

86. "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

87. "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
--Elizabeth Browning

88. " When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. "
-- Dr Suese

89. "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
--Herman Hesse

90. "So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life."
-- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

91. "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

92. "She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes."
--Byron

93. "....A simple I love you means more than money...."
--Frank Sinatra

94. "How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning."
--Thomas Campbell

95. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love."
--Sophocles

96. "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
--Mark Twain

97. " Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her... "
-- Unknown

98. "There is no remedy for love but to love more."
--Henry David Thoreau

99. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."
--Alfred Lord Tennyson

100. "All love is sweet, given or returned."
--Percy Bysshe Shelley

Top Love Quotes & Sayings of All Time

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The Cons of Having an Affair with a Married Man


What makes a smart woman stupid is by having an affair with a married man. But this is not a new issue to begin with. It’s not entirely a foreign issue for us, really. Women from the olden times, even famous and intelligent ones are fairly involved in extramarital affairs. And it drags on till today. So, it’s rather ironic to call these women stupid because most of those involved in love affairs with married man (and I mean seriously falling in love and not due to some conspiracy or anything) are smart, intelligent and women of high profile in nature. Love is wonderful, but at certain point in life, by taking a simple wrong step can tarnish your life forever.
If you asked a woman who is having an intimate relationship with a married man on nothing but merely love basis the question why they would let herself suffer like that and being treated nothing more like a mistress, they’ll probably have only one sentence to reply to you, which is the often-heard ‘You won’t know how I feel because you’re not in my shoe’. But do we have to be in their shoe to actually know how’s it feel like? After all, when something like this happens to someone dear to us, take our friends or sisters for example, we probably be hurt too just by watching how they are going through all that affair thing as part of their life.
There is only one simple cure to save yourself from this emotional blunder that if you’ve taken up the risk will have a huge toll on your life, and the sad part is that it may affect your mind a lifetime. Like it or not, extramarital dating is a dangerous game.
If you feel like you’re in the verge of falling in love with a married man, stop there right now! Well, it’s after, your choice in life but take some time to answer these questions and think it all through.

Is it worth it to have an affair with a married man?

You will be showered with his pretty promises that 99% of the times, but he won’t be able to make it. He will say stuff about leaving his wife and all, but they rarely did in real life stories. You’ll be living in a fake dreams, a world of your own, small and timid and full of blurry edges. Will you still think it’s worth to waste your precious time away with this kind of man?

Why a married man?

There’s plenty of men out there, single and available. If you’re grudging the fact that most single guys are useless and hopeless, what about married man? Are they hopeful and useful for you? Emotionally? In a long period of time, will the relationship still be comforting for you? You may say it’s only for a play-around but as you age, you’ll probably think of a more committed relationship, a bind through marriage. If you happened to not know that he was married and got into a relationship, think this: Do you really think you could fall in love with a man who lied to you about his marital status in the first place?

Are you prepared for the long wait?

Yes, in the beginning (and maybe till the end), are you ready for the long wait? Promises after promises, year after year, he’s still not ready to leave his family for you. Most of the time, it’s pretty regular for man to decide that they want to make their marriage work after all. So, if you get to your sense and think simple, as this question to yourself, if he loves you, if he really loves you, he’d probably have already left his wife for you, right from the beginning. And when he says that hell leave his wife someday, you believe him again, and you’ll be back at base one of the never-ending circle only to find out in the end, that being together is impossible.
Being a mistress simply means that you are and always be the second priority, the one to be sacrificed, to be left behind and only be there for comfort. Sometimes, it seems the relationship was more sexual than like a real relationship of commitment. Some women even fall for the ‘My wife doesn’t treat me good’ kind of trick. That guy may say all the bad things about his wife but never leave her. Why? Because he’s just playing you, using you for his own leisure and comfort. Cause, if he’s really having a conflict with his wife, and have fallen out of love, he would have left her before he even knew you.
Many women who were involved in extramarital relationship and love have learned their lesson, and most of the time, the hard way. Are you willing to live your life in that transparent confinement? Only you have the answers, and the will to save yourself from this cruel blunder.
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“What’s Love Got To Do With It” - Factors and Causes of Divorce?


It takes a lot more than love to keep your marriage vows.
That’s the awful truth. Sad, but it’s the truth that people have to face. But perhaps we have been warned beforehand - by none other than Tina Turner through her shout outs while singing ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It’. I’ve always like the song ever since my high school years, but back then, little do I know how much it reflects our real life situation.
Fairy tales may have long polluted our minds with the abundant possibilities of happily ever after, but as we grow up, we know more that it takes more than just love to have a happy ending. Marriage problems can arise from various problems. Factors like a couple’s age, past relationships and bindings, children, family and parents, money as well as developing interest of a partner are taken into the bigger picture of what it takes to get a marriage alive, going and kicking.
According to findings made by Australian researchers with regard to the extent of how can a couple’s age effects a marriage has found out that a couple with a huge age gap is more likely to get divorced. I guess the old ways doesn’t work anymore in this era where we lived in, where women in the olden days married their husband who is way older than they are most of the time. Besides, few other findings by other nations also shown that couples, who got married at a very young age too, find it difficult sticking to their marriage contract.
Some people say, ‘let bygones be bygones’ but I guess not so much in a marriage. Your past matters more now than before. The finding also found that partners who have married more than once are 90% likely to get a divorce than those who are in their first marriage. It doesn’t get any better with partners who had children from their previous marriage. Here’s the shocking truth:-
” …with one-fifth of couples who have children before marriage - either from a previous relation or in the same relationship - having separated compared to 9% of couples without children born before marriage.”
That’s one-fifth ratio! It’s like for every hundred couples, 20 of them are having marriage trouble just because of the children. But here’s the big issue, was it really the children? Or was it just due to the couple’s humungous ego? Since another factor that could damage a marriage is trivial matters on the issue of existing or developing interest. Some people might find it a little funny that because of a hobby of watching football games or playing computer games can lead to divorce. But it happens, and it happens a lot.
Psychologically, an individual parents play an important role too, which I agree because personally I think, most of us, whether we realize it or not put our parents as our closest role models. We might often hear the words ‘oh! If you can do it, why can’t I?’. People with a broken family are more like to face troubles with their own marriage compared to those whose parents did not separate.
Money is always a killer. Well, people could kill one another for money. No wonder, it is one of the main causes of divorce. In a statistic by a country (in south-east asia) alone, where about 70 to 80% of divorce cases are caused by lack of financial responsibilities by either both or one of the partners.
Maybe we should just set some time to evaluate ourselves. We all want a happy ever after kind of marriage, but remember not everyone is perfect, including ourselves. Marriage isn’t simple but it’s worth a journey to take in life. It’s up to you to make it up to the challenge.

Is the World Out of Single Men?


It was kind of amusing to know the fact that while I was writing an article about single successful women having affair with married men, it was actually happening right under my nose. Maybe I did hit it at the right time.
A few days ago I went to see this good friend of mine who works in a place not too far from where I was working for a lunch at a medium class restaurant not too far from both of our workplace. Why I chose that place was probably quieter than any other restaurants around since the food was rather expensive for a luncheon to begin with. But, anyway I fancy the indulgence once in a while, and plus, the food is good too.
So there we were sitting and talking like old friends does, and we also start asking about each other’s love life. That was when she confessed of her intimate affair with a man, who is someone else’s husband. I kept my cool and try to react as professional as I can. She was pretty and I kinda of understand why she has resorted to this kind of love relationship, but I couldn’t help myself wondering if it’s all worthwhile. She was of higher rank in position than the guy and all I can think of is him using her.
I may not know how it feels like, truly but I can imagine ‘if’ the person I’m in love with is a married man, what would I do? What would you do? Is it a point of no return? Is love always this cruel? There goes the string of questions.
Honestly, I can’t say she’s in the wrong or right, but one thing I can say is that we human are stronger than we think we are. And we’re strong enough to walk away from all these problems and live a problem-free life. Why want to mess with other people’s life if someday we get ours messed up back? Like the old rocker saying - what we give we get back right? You can’t say it’s fate either. Because I believe we have the power to change it still, as long as we breathe. The choice is totally ours. Yes, of course you may love him with all you’ve got but let’s face it - he’s some other people’s property, and virtues stated that you shouldn’t trespass on other people’s property.
And then again back to the question - is the world out of single men? Not, but the world may be lack of eligible and single men with good life’s prospect. I think I’ll discuss that in another writer’s block in the future.

Friendship and Love: Best Friends Forever


Love comes in all forms, including friendship. What should best friends do?

Friends come and go, but later, they’ll come again. You’ve just got to admit it, there are times when you need your friends, more than your family. It’s pretty complicated actually but even if the truth hurts or disappoint you, you just have to accept it. There are things you can’t do with your family but you’re able to do so with your friends and vice versa. That’s how things go, that circumscribed friendship. But if you’re able to perceive this freely, you won’t have to experience severe heartbreak with friend’s related problems.
Remember, your friends are people too, and they are a bunch of people with their own families and worries. So, don’t blame them when they can’t be there ALL the time, even if they are your best friends. But a good friend will always offer you their sympathy and care even if they can’t physically be there beside you. They’ll give you a short phone call at least, even when they’re really busy. But when they don’t, your best bet is to assume they’re just as stressed as you are.
Your friends have feelings too. They get jealous, angry, heartbroken and even moody sometimes. There are even best friends who backstabbed one another, quarrel and fight over things. But only to see yourself finding way back to each other. You’re pretty used to this you say and it’ll be lonely and incomplete without those fights. Because you know what, friends should forgive and forget. Even though it starts on a new loop it’s fine because accepting them, should be on the bad and the good sides.
Yes, a friend can hurt you. Because we can’t read each others mind. So one thing you can do is to say sorry often for your invisible sins and misbehaviors towards your friend. That should be able to set the alarm in their mind, and it’s perfectly applicable in cases of the ugly truths being said and will be said in the future.
If you’re expecting trust from your best friends, you can, partially because no one’s perfect. And even if the dishonesty revealed made you fall, expect them to be the one to bring you up again. If they’re a real good friend, they will support you standing back up again, and later put the smile back on your face. The world is not a setting of fairy tales. They’ll be sad moments and happy moments, and so it goes with your best friend. That’s love and friendship for everyone - the truth everyone have to learn to accept.
Don’t worry, be happy! Read some Best Friends Forever Poems

More Motivational, Inspirational Quotes and Sayings


Motivation, I’d say is a necessity in life. No one can get over something without words of courage, whether loudly or silently said. Sometimes, certain motivation and inspiration will be inculcated in our head without us realizing it, and when in the time we need to hear and think it through again, it’ll eventually come back to head. I’ve prepared another string of good words of motivation and quotes for you. Enjoy and learn.
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Without your involvement you can’t succeed.
With your involvement you can’t fail.
-Anonymous
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Do not face a problem as A problem but face it as
A Challenge; Problems will come and will go
-AnIzma
What is the Secret of SUCCESS… ?
“RIGHT DECISIONS”
How do you make Right Decisions… ? “EXPERIENCE”
How do you get Experience.. . ?
“WRONG DECISIONS ”
-Anonymous
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Lead me from deathn to life,
From falsehood to truth
Lead me from despair to hope,
From fear to trust
Lead me from hate to love,
From war to peace
Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
-Satish Kumar; Indian writer (1937)
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How small of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
Our own felicity we make or find.
-Samuel Johnson; English poet
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
-Samuel Johnson; English poet
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Life is like playing violin solo in public,
And learning the instrument as one goes on.
-Samuel Butler; English novelist
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If we believe a thing to be bad,
And if we have a right to prevent it,
It is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.
-Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner (1854-1925); British Colonial Administrator
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would
By her own radiant light, though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom’s self
Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,
Where with her best nurse Contemplation,
She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings
That in the various bustle of resort
Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i’ the centre, and enjoy bright day,
But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the midday sun;
Himself is his own dungeon.
-John Milton; English poet
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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
-Herbert Spencer; English philosopher
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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…it is a part of nature.
-Herbert Spencer; English philosopher
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