EX LIBRIS
1.
When love beckons you, follow him,
Through his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you, yield to him,
Through the sword hidden among
His pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you, believe him.
Through his voice may shatter,
Your dreams as the north wind lays waste in the garden.
Khalil Ghibran
2.
Love is all we have, the only way
That each can help the other.
Euripedes
3.
Love those who love you.
Voltaire
4.
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
John Gray
5.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6.
All love is sweet,
Given or returned.
Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Perey Bysshe Shelley
7.
Two human loves make one devine.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
8.
Is it, in heav'n, a crime, to love too well?
Alexander Pope
9.
For aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
10.
She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me.
Hartley Coleridge
11.
All, everything that I understand,
I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
12.
Oh, they loved dearly;
Their souls kissed,
They kissed with their eyes,
They were both but, one single kiss.
Heinrich Heine
13.
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love for ever.
Robert Burns
14.
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that
Themselves commit.
William Shakespeare
15.
Whoso loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
16.
Love looks not with the eyes,
But with the mind…
William Shakespeare
17.
Love is the wisdom of the fool
And the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
18.
A new commandment I give unto you,
That ye love one another.
St John 13:34
19.
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake
20.
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so devine
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
Isaac Watts
21.
Love sought is good,
But giv'n unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
22.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
Song of Solomon
23.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
Catullus
24.
You cannot give a kiss without
Taking and cannot take
Without giving.
25.
There is no fear in love;
But perfect love casteth out fear.
John 4:18
26.
You say, to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you can love me long.
Robert Herrick
27.
There can be no peace or mind in love,
Since the advantage one has secured is never anything
But a fresh starting-point for further desires.
Marcel Proust
28.
Tomorrow may be love,
Who never loved before,
And may he who has loved love too.
Pervigilium Veneris
29.
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be the liar;
But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare
30.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;
For thy love is better than wine.
Song of Soloman 1:2
31.
Only, our love hath no decay;
This, no tomorrow hath,
Nor yesterday,
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
John Donne
32.
Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake
33.
A life without love is like a year without summer.
34.
If thou must love me,
Let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
35.
When Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
William Shakespeare
36.
True love's the gift which
God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven.
Sir Walter Scott
37.
Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
John Milton
38.
Love consists in desiring to give
What is our own to another
And feeling his delight as our own.
Emanuel Swedenburgh
39.
There is no greater nor keener pleasure that that of bodily love -
And none which is more rational.
Plato
40.
Love can vanquish Death.
Alfred Tennyson
41.
The supreme happiness of life
Is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
42.
He who finds not love
Finds nothing.
43.
Alas! The love of women! It is known
To be lovely and a fearful thing.
George Gordon
44.
Love is a symbol of eternity.
It wipes out all sense of time,
Destroying all memory of a
Beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Staél
45.
At the touch of Love,
Everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
46.
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
47.
A loving heart is always young.
48.
Who can give law to lovers?
Love is a greater law to itself.
Boethius
49.
Love gives naught but itself and
Takes naught but from itself,
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For Love is sufficient unto Love.
Kahlil Gibran
50.
The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of Love.
William Wordsworth
51.
It is best to cultivate a heart of love
That knows no anger.
52.
Love the fire of life,
Love either consumes
Or purifies.
53.
The magic of first Love is our
Ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli
54.
True love makes all hard hearts gentle.
George Herbert
55.
The stellar universe is not so
Difficult to understand as the real
Actions of other people, especially
Of the people with whome we are in love.
Marcel Proust
56.
Familiar acts are beautiful through Love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
57.
As for the lover,
His soul dwells in the body of another.
Marcus Cato
58.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Duc de la Rouchefoucauld
59.
Love draws me one way,
Reason another.
Ovid
60.
Love is a friend, a fire, a heaven, a hell.
Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell.
Richard Barnfield
61.
If it were not for hopes,
The heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
62.
Love is like the blossom where there blows
Everything that lives or grows.
Giles Fletcher
63.
The universe hangs on a kiss,
Exists in the hold of a kiss.
Zalman Shneor
64.
Tell her brief is life
But Love is long.
Alfred Tennyson
65.
We were two and had but one heart.
Francois Villon
66.
Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man!
Thomas Campion
67.
Let those love now,
Who never lov'd before;
Let those who always lov'd
Now love the more.
Thomas Parnell
My fellow friends the above was my sharing of what I think and believe
love is and fragments of myself absolved in this work.
Love exists, love is all around, and love shall forever be around for the reaping.
"Come reap! Come reap Hearts of Love, cometh and rejoice in the joy that is love and its grand principles!"
Love
Petar Vodogaz