–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. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

–Mark Twain

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. “Come, let us make love deathless.”

–Herbert Trench

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

Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don’t.

People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)

When it comes to doing the deed early in the relationship, 78 percent of women would decline an intimate rendezvous if they had not shaved their legs or underarms.

Feminist women are more likely than other females to be in a romantic relationship.

Two-thirds of people report that they fall in love with someone they’ve known for some time vs. someone that they just met.

There’s a reason why office romances occur: The single biggest predictor of love is proximity.

Falling in love can induce a calming effect on the body and mind and raises levels of nerve growth factor for about a year, which helps to restore the nervous system and improves the lover’s memory.

Love can also exert the same stress on your body as deep fear. You see the same physiological responses — pupil dilation, sweaty palms, and increased heart rate.

Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate — the part of the brain involving cravings.

The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.

The “Love Detector” service from Korean cell phone operator KTF uses technology that is supposed to analyze voice patterns to see if a lover is speaking honestly and with affection. Users later receive an analysis of the conversation delivered through text message that breaks down the amount of affection, surprise, concentration and honesty of the other speaker.

Eleven percent of women have gone online and done research on a person they were dating or were about to meet, versus seven percent of men.

Couples’ personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.

The oldest known love song was written 4,000 years ago and comes from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

The tradition of the diamond engagement ring comes from Archduke Maximillian of Austria who, in the 15th century, gave a diamond ring to his fiancée, Mary of Burgundy.

Forty-three percent of women prefer their partners never sign “love” to a card unless they are ready for commitment.

People who are newly in love produce decreased levels of the hormone serotonin — as low as levels seen in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Perhaps that’s why it’s so easy to feel obsessed when you’re smitten.

Philadelphia International Airport finished as the No. 1 best airport for making a love connection, according to an online survey.

According to mathematical theory, we should date a dozen people before choosing a long-term partner; that provides the best chance that you’ll make a love match.

A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

Every Valentine’s Day, Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet took place, receives around 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet.

When we get dumped, for a period of time we love the person who rejected us even more, says Dr. Helen Fisher of Rutgers University and author of Why We Love. The brain regions that lit up when we were in a happy union continue to be active.

Familiarity breeds comfort and closeness … and romance.

One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.

OK, this one may not surprise you, but we had to share it: Having a romantic relationship makes both genders happier. The stronger the commitment, the greater the happiness!

Researchers went so far as to say that when a new relationship blooms, men become more like women, and women become like men! This way, a better understanding develops to kick-start a relationship.

“Men, in some way, become more like women, and women become like men,” researcher Donatella Marazziti explains. And there’s a very good reason: We’re more likely to be attracted to, interested in or stimulated by someone who shares our personality traits. “This elimination of differences between the sexes is important because it lays the groundwork for conception, which is essential to our survival,” Helen Fisher, Ph.D., author of Why We Love shares.

But, unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), this two-peas-in-a-pod feeling doesn’t have staying power. When researchers tested subjects one year later, they found that the testosterone levels of both sexes had resumed normal, pre-relationship levels.

The upside to all of this is two-fold. First, the temporary change allows us to fall in love to begin with. Second, it’s the differences between men and women that keeps a relationship interesting.

We locked eyes across a room…
Another recent study revealed that when a woman enters a room, she is perceived as more attractive by men if she turns her eyes toward a certain man. Note: it can be any man! Researchers at Dartmouth University asked men to look at photos of the faces of fashion models, some turned to make eye contact and others looking away. They were asked to rate the likeability of each model and sure enough - the ones making “eye contact” were preferred every time! The models who looked away were considered less likeable and even disagreeable! Researchers concluded that a woman’s gaze is a powerful tool and nonverbal communication is responsible for a good portion of the impressions we form.

I  just knew!
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studying the behavior of singles say that people don’t need a lot of time or information to know if they’re interested in someone. Research suggests that we know “it” (a person who is appealing to us) when we see it. They found that both men and women assessed potential compatibility within moments of meeting using primarily visual cues. One researcher explained, “Somewhat surprisingly, factors that you might think would be really important to people - like religion, education, and income - played very little roles in their choices.”

They’re driving me crazy
You may have thought it was just a turn of phrase, but no. It’s official. Love makes people crazy according to researchers at the University of London. For starters, falling in love causes serotonin levels in the brain to drop, causing obsession. Then it increases production of cortisol, a stress hormone that causes high blood pressure and potential loss of sleep. And to make matters worse, when we look at our new loves, the neural circuits that control social judgment are suppressed, which may explain the phrase “blinded by love.”

Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating, and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen. These effects rarely last more than a few weeks or months. Attraction is the more individualized and romantic desire for a specific candidate for mating, which develops out of lust as commitment to an individual mate forms. Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act in a manner similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain’s pleasure center and leading to side effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement. Research has indicated that this stage generally lasts from one and a half to three years. Since the lust and attraction stages are both considered temporary, a third stage is needed to account for long-term relationships. Attachment is the bonding that promotes relationships lasting for many years and even decades. Attachment is generally based on commitments such as marriage and children, or on mutual friendship based on things like shared interests. It has been linked to higher levels of the chemicals oxytocin and vasopressin to a greater degree than short-term relationships have^.

The protein molecule known as the nerve growth factor (NGF) has high levels when people first fall in love, but these return to previous levels after one year.

In the courting phase, both parties maintain that fascinating charm which they used to attract their partner in the first place. The courting phase is where most broken promises & exaggerate words are said as you are still trying to impress each other. Things like ‘I’ve never felt this way about anyone else before’ or ‘I think we have something special between us’ are said. Although these statements are made with good intentions, they are often inaccurate and are based mainly on feeling as oppose to logic.

A couple in the courting phase also tend to be very “playful” with one another and prefer to spend every free moment together.

Although not every relationship passes through this courting phase, it happens often enough. Just make sure you are beyond this point before you start taking any serious steps in the relationship.

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