Best Love Quotes

Ever wondered what to write on a Valentines Day card? Look no further because I have gathered together some of the most inspirational love quotes.

“Even logical positivists are capable of love”

~ A.J. Ayer

“Eternity is love with the production of time”

~ William Blake

“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

"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb"
~ Robert Browning

“The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love”

~ Robert Burton

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge”
~ Thomas Carlyle

“Love is wiser than ambition”

~ Barry Cornwall

“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, 
and to love forever is to live forever”
~ Henry Drummond

"Life has taught us that love 
does not consist in gazing at each other, 

but in looking outward together in the same direction"
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Love knows no mean or measure”

~ Phineas Fletcher

“Love’s sooner felt than seen”

~ Phineas Fletcher

“Love is a game that two can play and both win”
~Eva Gabor

“Love is a circle that doth restless move, 
in the same sweet eternity of love”

~ Robert Herrick

“If I know what love is, it is because of you"
~ Herman Hesse

 “Love and a red rose can’t be hid”

~ Thomas Holcroft

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey”
~ Victor Hugo

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, 

but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"
~ Sam Keen

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths 

of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives”
~ C. S. Lewis

“In true love the smallest distance is too great, 
and the greatest distance can be bridged"
~ Hans Nouwens

“Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. 
I'd stepped in it a few times”
~ Rita Rudner

“The course of true love never did run smooth”

~ William Shakespeare

“O! How this spring of love resembleth 
the uncertain glory of an April day. 
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun. 
And by a cloud takes all away”

~ William Shakespeare

“And all for love and nothing for reward”

~ Edmund Spencer

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love”
~ Stendhal

“Love is love forevermore”

~ Tennyson

"Love is friendship set on fire"
~ Jeremy Taylor

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, 

while loving someone deeply gives you courage”
~ Lao Tzu

“I love you not because of who you are, 

but because of who I am when I am with you"
~ Unknown

“His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love”

~ William Wordsworth

References:

http://www.brainyquote.com

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. (1981)

Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2004)

A Dictionary of Quotations

20 LOVE SONGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE HEARD FOR A WHILE

1. You belong to me - Dean Martin
2. Close to You -The Carpenters
3. Old Devil Called Love - Alison Moyet
4. Lovestruck - Duffy
5. I do - Jewel
6. Hero - Enrique Iglasias
7. Here with me - Dido
8. Hello - Lionel Richie
9. Only you - Alison Moyet
10. Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
11. Miracle of love - Eurythmics
12. Is it love? - Nadia Ali
13. Nine billion bicycles - Katy Melua
14. Runaway - The Corrs
15. What’s Love Got To Do With it - Tina Turner
16. Take my breath away- Berlin
17. Is this love? - Alison Moyet
18. Eternal Flame - Bangles
19. Three Times A Lady - The Commodores
20. Broken Wings - Mr Mister

If you are making a playlist, I hope you can find plenty of music you like, either from this list, or from my initial lists at:  

http://itsallaboutambivalence.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-romantic-songs-both-obvious-and.html

ROMANTIC POEM 3

Is it lust or is it love?

Is it lust or is it love?

The instant connection,

As our bodies embrace

The relaxing yet tingling passion.

I know there has been a lot of flirtation.

We have not known each-other long,

Just fun times together, never an obsession.

Who knows, our love may grow strong.

I know we have to keep things simple,

Yet sometimes, our time has been blissful.

We will see how it goes;

I know it is too soon to be in love.

At least there are no rows.

Let’s not make the stakes too high,

Until the weekend, this is goodbye.

People said you are a charmer.

You may be a little bit romantic,

Who knows if you’ll become,

My knight in shining armour.

Looking forwards, all futuristic.

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It's all about ambivalence

ROMANTIC POEM 2

 OUR LOVE IS LIKE A DREAM.

If you could count the stars in the night sky,

It would be like my love, I cannot deny.

My love for you, is in my heart and in my head,

When I am awake and when I am in bed.

Our love has always been a natural progression,

Our love will continue with the same momentum.

My love for you has a comforting certainty,

Simply like the ticking of a clock.

Your love moves in never-ending circles,

Always and forever moving clockwise.

Our long-lasting love is simply destiny.

I know that we have love, which will always last.

Our love is much more than just company,

Yet loneliness is a thing of the past.

Our love means we are never at a loose end.

You are my lover and my best friend

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ROMANTIC POEM

YOU ARE MY INSPIRATION AND MY MOTIVATION.

 

Our love is walking along the same path,

Being able to make each-other laugh

Our love is lending a compassionate ear,

Showing that we care whatever we fear.

Our love grows, whatever we face,

We know when to hug, and when to embrace.

Our love is about always sharing our life,

We share our joy and share our grief.

Our love is about teamwork and dedication,

Keeping an open mind and discarding disbelief.

This makes us a good husband, and a good wife.

Our love will last the duration.

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It's all about ambivalence

THE BEST ROMANTIC SONGS - both obvious and alternative

It will soon be Valentines Day, a day to celebrate new or long-lasting relationships. With this occasion in mind, I have been thinking about romantic music; music that I like and don't like.


I have never purchased a CD of romantic songs, because they may contain songs that I don't like, songs to skip through because you think they are a cliché. This is where i-tunes has come into its own for me. A chance to create my own double CD, every song my taste. Some songs are either on CDs that I already had, others I had downloaded in the past. Nonetheless it has been a chance to improve my music knowledge and download a few new songs. Also I have done what I always said I wouldn't: buy something twice! There are a few that I have on cassette tape, that I liked so much, they deserved a download.

Having given listened to many songs and given this the time it deserved; I decided that there are more romantic songs that are to my taste than I initially thought. Time and time again, the same songs appear on people's lists. Granted I am listing many of those, but hopefully I am including some others that may not initially spring to mind.

This isn't in order of favourites because I couldn't even begin to rank or rebuke these singers. Nonetheless I have a varied music taste, some are from the past and some are more recent.

Here is my comprehensive list of the best romantic songs.

1.   L.O.V.E. - Nat King Cole
2.  L.O.V.E.  - Joss Stone
3.  Come away with me - Norah Jones
4.  When I close my eyes - Shanice
5.  I love your smile - Shanice
6.  Sign your name - Terence Trent D'Arby
7.  Be without you - Mary J Blige
8.  As (ft Mary J Blige) - George Michael
9.  You are the sunshine of my life - Stevie Wonder
10. I just called to say I love you - Stevie Wonder
11. All I want is you - Miguel & J. Cole
12. Marry you - Bruno Mars
13. Just the way you are - Bruno Mars
14. Grenade - Bruno Mars
15. I want you - Cee Lo Green
16. It's OK - Cee Lo Green
17. Fool for you - Cee Lo Green Ft Philip Bailey
18. Old Fashioned - Cee Lo Green
19. Without you - Mariah Carey
20. I got you babe - Sonny and Cher
21. Circle of life - Elton John
22. Truly madly deeply - Savage Garden
23. The way you make me feel - Ronan Keeting
24. Love letters - Ketty Lester
25. Love will keep us together - Neil Sedaka
26. My heart - Lizz Wright
27. The One I love - R.E.M
28. You're still the one - Shania Twain
29. I won't leave you lonely - Shania Twain
30. Let my love walk in Wanda Jackson
31. Big bad handsome man - Imelda May
32. Love Tatto - Imelda May
33. Johnny got a boom boom - Imelda May
34. Stupid Cupid - Connie Francis
35. Don't let me be misunderstoon - Nina Simone
36. I put a spell on you - Nina Simone
37. Now or never - Wiley and Jodie Connor
38. Kickstarts - Example

Understanding that my husband and I don't always share the same taste in music. We often banter about that, me saying that he has a narrow taste in music, and him wondering what on earth I'm listening to!

As a gift for Valentines day, I created a playlist, of songs that I hope he'll like.

I think you have to put more effort in finding indie/alternative type love songs. I found that a lot are anti-love or to do with break-ups. I know that can be said for any music genre, but it seemed even more so, when trying to make an alternative love songs playlist.

I hope I have selected well and that anybody who doesn't like my immediate choice above, will like this selection:

Alternative Love Songs

1.  Toothpaste Kisses - The Maccabees
2.  Echo - Incubus
3.  Love should - Moby
4.  She's so lovely - Scouting for girls
5.  Love you but your'e green - Babyshambles
6.  Baby I'm yours - Arctic Monkeys and the Newell Octet
7.  505 - Arctic Monkeys
8.  Somebody told me - The Killers
9.  Auf Achse - Franz Ferdinand
10. Love's not a competition (But I'm winning) - Kaiser Chiefs
11. As the cold rain falls - Tiger Army
12. Are you gonna be my girl - Jet
13. Baby, I love you - Ramones
14. Hand in glove - The Smiths.


15. Inevitable by Anberlin
With thanks to: http://shepaintsmeblue.wordpress.com/ because this is my favourite from this blogger's list.


I am interested to know what you think of either, or both of the above lists. Which songs do you like? Which would you add? Which romantic songs are your favourites?

Thank-you to:http://free-valentine-clipart.blogspot.com/