To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
-William Thackeray
Quotations
Love
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.
-Yves Saint Laurent
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-Helen Keller
Nothing I say can explain to you divine love. Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
-Rumi "Jalaluddin Rumi"
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
-Oscar Wilde
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
-Helen Keller
