How do I Love Thee? Let Me Quote the Ways....

With Valentine's Day on the horizon, I complied a list of some of my favorite quotes about love and relationships. Hopefully one [or more] will sing to your soul as they have sung to mine. I have always had a very unrealistic-Hollywood-Big-Screen-esq ideal about love or the way love should be. While I think that my notions have been unrealistic, I am still a hopeless romantic and I still believe that love - in its many forms - is truly awesome and amazing. Love is powerful. Love is the catalyst for miracles. My perception of love remains idealistic to some - I'm sure - however, I think love is so amazing that it is worthy of idealizing. That said, read on and enjoy ..... 

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” - Aristotle

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

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.” - Henry Ward Beecher

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” - Anais Nin

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

“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires; To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.” - Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” - Zora Neale Hurston

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.” - Leo Tolstoy

“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” - Alice Walker

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.”
- Pablo Neruda, "Love Sonnet XVII"

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

"I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you." -Roy Croft

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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