Love

Joan Tan
2 min readJun 25, 2022

There are 2 ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. — Edith Wharton

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love, love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability. — J. Krishnamurti

A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” -Abraham Crowley

You don’t marry someone you can live with — you marry the person who you cannot live without.” -unknown

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” -Ingrid Bergman

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” -La Rochefoucauld

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.” — Houssaye

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” -St. Augustine

To love another person is to see the face of God.” -Les Miserables

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” -Alexander Smith

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” -Stendhal

There is no remedy for love but to love more.” -Thoreau

Blushing is the color of virtue.” -Diogenes

Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -Dr. Karl Menninger

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

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry D. Thoreau

If I have a flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever im my garden. — unknown

Young men’s love lies not in the heart, but in the eyes. -Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet)

My only love sprung from my only hate.” -Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet)

“I fell head over heels in love — — and skinned my knees.” -unknown

Love is not 2 people gazing at each other, but 2 people looking ahead in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Author of “The Little Prince”

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