A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ
that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.
~by Maya Angelou


Love cannot endure indifference.
It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp,
it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart,
or its flame burns low.
~by Henry Ward Beecher


Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
~Swedish proverb


Love involves a willingness
to suffer and to be inconvenienced.
~Lewis F. Presnall


My little children,
let us not love in word,
neither in tongue;
but in deed and in truth.
~IJohn 3:18 (KJV)


I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts,
then there is no hurt, but only more love.
~Mother Teresa


The greatest happiness of life
is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves,
or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~Victor Hugo


Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
~Jean Vanier


Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
~The Buddha


Some pray to marry the man they love,
my prayer will somewhat vary:
I humbly pray to Heaven above
that I love the man I marry.
~Rose Stokes


Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
~Edmund Spenser

Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
~Zora Neale Hurston


If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
~Maya Angelou


Maybe love is like luck.
You have to go all the way to find it.
~Robert Mitchum


Among all things that are lovable,
there is one that is more lovable than the rest,
and that most lovable of all things is life.
~St. Anthony of Padua


God's love for us
is not the reason for which we should love him.
God's love for us
is the reason for us to love ourselves.
~Simone Weil


And in the end,
the love you take is equal to the love you make.
~John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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