Love is in the Air

Abraham Lincoln
“With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.”
Agatha Christie 
“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
Albert Einstein
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
“No, this trick won’t work. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
Aristotle
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

Barbara de Angelis

“If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.”

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.”

Buddha

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Carl Jung

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

Charlie Brown

 “Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love.”

Christopher Marlowe

“Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”

Dalai Lama

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

 Eva Gabor

“ Love is a game that two can play and both can win.”

Friedrich Nietzsche 

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

 George Sand

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

Helen Keller

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”

Henry Miller

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”

Henry Van Dyke 

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”  

Herman Hesse

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

Ingrid Bergmen

“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.”

Iris Murdoch

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

“Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

Jimi Hendrix

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

John Donne 

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”

John Keats

“Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

John Lennon

“Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”

Lao-Tzu

“Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; kindness in giving creates love.”

“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”

Madonna

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage; because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

Mae West 

“Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.” 

 “A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”

Mahatma Gandhi 

"Where there is love, there is life."

Mark Twain

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.”

Mother Teresa

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. “

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”

Ogden Nash

“To keep your marriage brimming,

With love in the wedding cup,

Whenever you're wrong, admit it;

Whenever you're right, shut up.”

Oscar Wilde 

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

Pablo Picasso 

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

Plato

“At the touch of love and heart, everyone becomes a poet.”

Rabrindranath Tagore

“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.”

Rafael Ortiz 

“Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.”

Roy Croft

“ I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”

Sir Winston Churchill

“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

Soren Kierkegaard 

“Don’t forget to love yourself.”

Unknown 

“To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.”

Voltaire 

“Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination .”

When Harry Met Sally 

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

William Gladstone 

“We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”

William Makepeace Thackeray 

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”

William Shakespeare 

"If music be the food of love, play on."

 “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”   

And the love songs... My longtime favourites are:

Lovefool - Cardigans

To the Moon and Back - Savage Garden

Always on my Mind - Elvis Presley

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston :(

You are Not Alone - Michael Jackson

Till next time, Ivi