'Gimme hate, Lord,' he whimpered. 'I'll take hate any day.  But don't give me love, Lord.  I can't carry it...It's too heavy.' ---Toni Morrison, "Song of Solomon"

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.

Go ahead and say it-I love you- you can say it a thousand times.  But true love doesn't need to be told. 

Hate has a reason for everything, but love is unreasonable. 

Hate is easy; Love takes courage. 

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing could hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. . .you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a should-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

He is the breath, life, and very air that I breathe.For this man I would die, ...for this man I love

He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world. ---From "The Alchemist"

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Benjamin Franklin

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. -Buddha

Heartbreak happens to the best of us, we can't hide from it, and we can't deny it so just accept it, no matter how hard it is and no matter how much it hurts. 

How can she say she's lost without him? He's not a compass- he never was How can she say life has no meaning? Life meant something before he came along- it still does How can she say he stole her heart? You can't steal what is given away Love isn't blind, but sometimes it's shortsighted And if you're not careful,  you can lose your way.---Christine Lavin

I alone am the one you don't know you need...You don't know you need me.  ---Eve 6, "Lights Out"

I am found in your dreams, located in your heart and constantly running through your mind.

I am of nothing special; of this I am sure.  I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life.  There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. ---Nicholas Sparks

I could do without many things with no hardship-- you are not one of them.  ---Ashleigh Brilliant

I could fill a thousand pages, telling you how I felt and still you would not understand. So now I leave without a sound except my heart shattering as it hits the ground. 

I do believe the lord above Created you for me to love. He picked you out from all the rest Because he knew I'd love you the best. I once had a heart and it was true, But now it's gone from me to you. Take care of it as I have done For you have two and I have none. If I go to heaven and you're not there, I'll wait for you upon a golden stair. If you're not there by judgement day, I'll know you went the other way. I'll give back my angel wings, My golden heart, My everything. To prove to you my love is true- I'd go to hell to be with you.

I don't think you do know until you meet the right person, 'cause then you just... you just... you just feel something that you know you've never felt before.(Kissing A Fool)

I dropped a tear in the ocean. Whenever they find it, I will stop loving you. 

I feel that there is someone in the world who can complete me, make me feel whole, and who I can laugh with. That person will love me not because he decides to, but because of the fact that when he is near me, he will feel the way I do: like one full entity, concerted.  I also believe that love is something that no one person can fix the limits of, because it is as infinite and mysterious as the stars that it's written on. Noone really should attempt to explain it, because it is one of the greatest natural phenomena in the world that all people should just have blind faith in. love is trust and certitude in the unknown, for without that faith emotions can die. ---Mary Pat Michalek

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self- respect and it's these things I'd believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be.  I love her and that's the beginning of everything. ---F. Scott Fitzgerald

I guess nobody does ever mean to fall in love. But it happens and love brands itself on your brain. Its like a new street appearing overnight in a city you've lived your whole life. The street is one way, you can't turn around and get off it. And it curves up ahead so that you can only see far enough to know that you're heading into the unknown.

I guess nobody ever really does mean to fall in love. But it happens, and love brands itself on your brain. It's like a new street appearing overnight in the city you've lived in your whole life. The street is one way-you can't turn around and get off it-and it curves up ahead so that you  can only see far enough to know that you're heading into the unknown.

I hated him so much, but I hated myself even more for hating.  Why is it that hate comes out so easily, yet...love? It gets trapped inside. 

I have fallen in so love with you, so much more than I said I would.

I have resolved that if you are afraid of love your heart will break anyway. Only in not half so nice a fashion as when you let somebody love you.---Ann Rinaldi

I know myself, now that you have left. I shall be everywhere hoping to make such memories with someone else. That is when I will really feel you have gone.  

I look at you and I see my best friend. Your energy and passion inspire me in ways I never thought possible. Your inner beauty is so strong that I no longer fear being myself. I no longer fear at all. I never thought I'd find someone to love that would love me back unconditionally. And then I realize that although we were often apart, you were always with me and you were always my soul mate. You give me purpose when I feel I have none. Without you my soul would be empty, my heart would be broken, my being incomplete. I thank God every day you were brought into my life and I thank you for loving me. (Beverly Hills, 90210)

I Love You more than Yesterday, but not as much as Tomorrow

I love you not only for what 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.  I love you because you have done more than any creed could have done to make me good, and more than any fate could have done to make me happy.  You have done it without a touch, without a word, without a sign.  You have done it by being yourself.  Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all.

I love you takes seconds to say but a life time to commit to

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.  ---Roy Croft

I love you, you love me? I love you and not not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. and not in a misplaced attraction puppy dog way although I'm sure that's what you call it. I love you, very simple, very truly, you're the epitome of everything I've ever looked for in another human being and I know you think of me as just a friend and crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you'd ever consider. But I had to say it, I just can't take this anymore, I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you, I can't look into your eyes without feeling that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels, I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. And I know this will probably like queer our friendship, no pun intended, but I had to say it cause I've never felt this way before and I don't care, I like who I am because of it.  And if bringing this out tonight mean that we can't hang out anymore then that hurts me but God I couldn't allow another day without getting it out there regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face, is to be the inevitable shoot down and you know I'll accept that but I know, I know that some part of you is hesitating for a moment and if there is a moment of hesitation then that means you feel something too and all I ask is that you please not dismiss that and try to dwell on it for just

I love you.  You don't have to love me back... but I am gonna give you my heart anyways. ---From "Untamed Heart"

I loved her, but yet she didn't love me back.  But that didn't phase me.  I gave her my heart anyway, and although she didn't want it she carries a piece of it still today. 

I loved him so much. And talked about him so much. And thought about him so much. It was like he lived inside me. Like he had taken possession of my soul or something. And then one day...I got over him. ---Claire Danes in "My So-Called Life"

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any more by giving myself away like this - But oh my dear, I can't be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. ---Vita Sackville-West

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. -Henry Ward Beecher

I think he's scared to tell me.  He has to be or he would have said it already. That's ok though, I'm just as scared as him...I have to be or else...when he smiled at me I would smile back.

I think when love is pure, you try to understand the reasons why.  And I prefer the mystery.  It has given me hope that there could be a person that loves me.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.  ---Gilda Radner

I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do- that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was so very special. Maybe if we were 10 years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe, I think, its just that I'm not ready for forever, and neither is he.---from "Forever" by Judy Blume.

I would rather to never have felt love, than to feel so loved one minute and in the blink of an eye it all be gone, left with nothing more than this broken heart I have now. 

I'd like to think I'll be happy again, but I really need to stop and cry right now, and sometimes I wish I could scream at you, and just show you what you do to me. 

If each time I thought of you a flower grew, the world would be a garden.

If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever... ~ Beach Boys

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you¹ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.

if i could tear out my still beating heart and then say i love you that would prove that even with out a heart i will still love you

If I die never having loved, then I die never having lived

If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I never liked you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, and I do and I will.

If I tell you I love you, you'll think I'm lying. But I'd rather tell you I love you and let you think I'm lying than say I don't love you and know for sure I'm lying.

If I was a flower in total darkness your love would be the little beam on light that keeps me alive

If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart the only dream that mattered had come true.  In this life, I was loved by you.

If it's not mutual love, it's not really love

If love hurts, then love some more, if love hurts some more, then love even more, if love hurts even more... then love till it hurts no more

If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest.

If the winds were to whisper their greatest words from now until eternity, they still wouldn't describe your outstanding beauty

If you could only see the way he loves me, maybe you would understand why I feel this way

If you find yourself digging a deeper and deeper hole... stop digging.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -Mother Theresa

If you live to be a hundred I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with...

If you love someone, tell them right there and then before the moment passes you by. 

If you love something set it free if it returns it was meant to be.  If it continues to fly let it soar, and have faith that God has something better in store. 

If you plan it, it's a fling. If it just happens; it's ment to be.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I feel that it can only be expressed by replying, 'Because it was him; because it was me.  ---Michel de Montaigne

If you really believe it was meant to be, you just have to be patient, no matter what obstacles get in your way

If you were only a dream that ends when the sun comes up, Id been praying the moon to stay forever

If you wished to be loved, love.  ---Seneca

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. -Benjamin Franklin

If your heart is full of love, you will always have something to give.

If you're lucky you can get a second chance with the one you love.  Sometimes luck isn't enough. 

I'll miss you when I go to bed at night, but I'll miss you more when I wake up.

I'm grateful to you for changing my life, for showing me the difference between holding a hand, and chaining a soul. I'm grateful for feeling the love that you, and only you, could show so truthfully. You have changed me in so many ways that I could never thank you enough for what you have done. I would be lost without you.

I'm not a child anymore.  I'm tall enough to reach for the stars.  I'm old enough to love you from afar.  Too trusting?  Yes. But then, women usually are.

Impossible is in the dictionary of fools.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.---Janos Arany

In what seemed like one split second I lost what I held most dear to me…at the mere blink of an eye it was all gone…so I ran after you…and held on as tight as my tiny hand could grasp.  Already weak from all the torment I could not allow myself to let go.  Love that once shined so bright turned dark and angry…I loved you more than I ever dreamed of loving someone.  You were the last star in my big lonely sky.  My only dream ever to come true…but now your going to end up like all the rest.  I tried…I tried so hard.  But my love isn't enough anymore. I will never forget you.  My last star has fallen… 

Is love such a tender thing? Is it too rough, too rude, too boisterous?  Love pricks like a thorn. If love be rough with you, be rough with love! Prick love for pricking you and beat love down. ---Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio)

Is Love the best healer? Or is Pain the best teacher? 

it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. ---Barbara DeAngelis

It doesn't matter who you love or how you love.  If you are not in love or loving somebody, you are only half alive.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.---Agatha Christie

It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give love.  The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly, and the best way to keep loving is to give it wings. Don't dismiss your dreams.

It is impossible to fall out of Love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you, it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, than it wasn't love you were in. There are no "exit" signs in love, there is only an "on" ramp. 

It still hasn't sunk in yet... I haven't totally realized that he's pushed me out of his heart forever... but I'm not sure I want it to hit me fully yet because I know that, when it does, I will feel pain like nothing I have ever felt before... 

It takes a wise man to understand love, But a foolish man to give it up

It takes only a few seconds to say I Love You...But a lifetime to commit.

It's been too many nights with, to now suddenly be without.  ---Jewel

Its funny, no matter how hard you try you can't close your heart forever.  And the minute you open it up, you never know whats going to come in. But when it does, you just got to go for it 'cause if you don't, and you got to trust me on this one, there is no point in being here.

It's not my ear you whispered into, but my heart. It's not my lips that you kissed, but my soul.

I've noticed that being with you, I smile a little more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines a little brighter and life is so much sweeter.  For being with you takes me to a different place.  A place called love.

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they've got. 

Knowing you love someone is easy, saying it out loud is the hard part.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Saint-Exupery

Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.

Life is the song, Love is the music.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ---David Grayson