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Teen Love Quotes

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“Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.” – Anonymous

“Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.” – Anonymous

“Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you.” – Anonymous

“If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever.” – Anonymous

“If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand.” – Anonymous

love like math“If this is a crush, then I don’t know if I could take the real thing if it happens.” – Anonymous

“When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” – Elizabeth Bowen

“A heart that loves is always young.” – Greek Proverb

“Enjoy the spring of love and youth, to some good angel leave the rest; for time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest!” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I’m so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy.” – Jesse Tyler

“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime.” – Swedish Proverb

Relationships Quotes

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“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” –Miles Franklin

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” –Henry Winkler

“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” –Leo Buscaglia

“Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” –Swedish Proverb

“The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” –Unknown

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” –Wayne W. Dyer

“Eighty percent of life’s satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.” –Brian Tracy

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” – Unknown

“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” –Mary Tyler Moore

“A man in a relationship trades intimacy to get sex. A woman in a relationship trades sex to get intimacy.” –Old Proverb

Relationships Quotes“People change and forget to tell each other.” –Lillian Hellman

“Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.” –Brian Tracy

“It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting.” – Todd Ruthman

“Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.” –Author Unknown

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” –Martin Luther

“Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.” –Hector Bianciotti

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” –Anais Nin

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” –Oprah Winfrey

“Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it’s really no fun lying to ’em anymore.” –Norm from Cheers

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. –Thomas Love Peacock

Facebook Status Love Quotes

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I’ve prepared for you a great list with some wonderful Love Quotes for your Facebook Status. Enjoy them and, if you want, tell us about your favorite.

“Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.” – Roy Orbison

“Love hurts more than hate.” – Michael Todd

“Though lovers be lost love shall not.” – Dylan Thomas

“He’s also there for people who have lost loved ones.” – Don McClure

“Came but for friendship, and took away love.” – Thomas Moore

“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.” – Swedish Proverb

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne

Facebook status love quotes“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it” – Alexandre Dumas Père

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“Woman reaches love through friendship; man reaches friendship through love” – Mohammed Hijazi

“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” – Pietro Aretino

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” – Roy Croft

“You’re my sweetheart to the max. I love you like Crispy Critters.” – Wesley Willis

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward

“You taught me to love fearlessly and to open up my heart. I’ve never known anyone like you. I love you to no end.” – Phil Martin

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’. It’s not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: ‘I love you’ But, like a child, they’re longing to be told.” – Paul Simon

Cute Quotes for Girls

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I don’t believe in love because I still don’t have you! – Author Unknown

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

When the eyes meet and hold strongly they are bound to meet again. – Author Unknown

You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty. – Author Unknown

Kiss that’s never tasted is forever and ever wasted. – Billie Holiday

Sometimes the perfect person for you is that whom you least expected to be. – Author Unknown

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. – Swedish Proverb

Two hearts, two minds, in time did find one love, one aim two paths the same. Hold fast…and love will last. – Author Unknown

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even if courage fails you, tell that special someone that you love them in anyway possible. – Author Unknown

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. – Oscar Wilde

Cute love is an attempt to change a piece of dream into reality. – Author Unknown

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

Women are made to be loved, not understood. – Oscar Wilde

Cute Friendship Quotes

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I almost forgot what great pleasure is to share cute friendship quotes, but now we can recover :)

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. – Jewish Saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. – Fr. Jerome Cummings

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. – Cindy Lew

The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. – Swedish Proverb

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. – Abraham Lincoln

Hold a true friend with both your hands. – Nigerian Proverb

Friendship needs no words… – Dag Hammarskjold

A faithful friend is the medicine of life. – Apocrypha

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. – Anonymous

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. – John Evelyn

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. – Baltasar Gracian

Friends are the sunshine of life. – John Hay

The best mirror is an old friend. – George Herbert

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. – Samuel Paterson

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. – Anonymous

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. – Pietro Aretino

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. – Hasidic Saying

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. – Claude Mermet

Count your age with friends but not with years. – Anonymous

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. – Lois L. Kaufman

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. – Hillaire Belloc

10 Famous Inspirational Quotes

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“Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours” – Swedish Proverb

“No man is free who is not master of himself.” – Epictetus

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan

“The appearances of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.” – Kahlil Gibran

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus

“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.” – Muhammad Ali

“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.” – Antoine de Sainte Exupery

“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” – Winston Churchill

“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Personal Growth Quotes

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Big doors swing on little hinges.” – W. Clement Stone

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill

“We find comfort among those who agree with us– growth among those who don’t.” – Frank A Clark

” Sometimes success is better measured in smiles received, giggles heard, and hands held, than in dollars earned, deadlines met, and kilos shed.” – Mike Dooley

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.” – Lao Tzu

” Forget the past; use the present to plan for the future.” – Refilwe Henny Muremi

“It not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.” – Anthony Robbins

“The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” – Socrates

“If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.” – Lord Chesterfield

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.” – Plato

“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” – Doug Firebaugh

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” – Denis Waitley

“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – John Maxwell

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” – Napoleon Hill

“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison

“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.” – La Rochefoucauld

“Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.” – Swedish Proverb

“You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.” –Albert Einstein

Friendship Quotes

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“Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush…afraid that somebody might take you away from me.” – Unknown

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”- Bernard Meltzer

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”- Aristotle

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.” – Lois L. Kaufman

“Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.” – Swedish proverb

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” – Homer

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” – Czech Proverb

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Most visited articles of 2010

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January: Serj Tankian Quotes ~ 3929 views

“Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.” – Serj Tankian

February: Joy Quotes ~ 829 views

“Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” – Swedish proverb

March: Courage Quotes ~1395 views

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

April: Quick Albert Einstein Quote ~ 1426 views

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious” – Albert Einstein

May: Quick Smile Quote ~ 1870 views

“I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy. I’m going to laugh so don’t you see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style and even if it kills me – I’m going to smile!” – Unknown

June: Quick Tupac Quote ~ 2794 views

“My mama always used to tell me: If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.” – Tupac

July: Every time YOU smile, I smile ~ 1098 views

“Every time YOU smile, I smile” – Unknown

August: Famous Quotes About Life ~ 527 views

“May you live all the days of your life!” – Jonathan Swift

September: Seeing and Feeling Albert Einstein Quote ~ 5132 views

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” – Albert Einstein

October: Bob Marley Quotes ~ 2272 views

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!” – Bob Marley

November: Sweet Things to Say to Your Girlfriend ~ 1658 views

“If every raindrop would be one of your smiles, I wish it rains heavily throughout, so that there is no space for unhappiness in your life” – Unknown

December: Life Quotes ~ 1469 views

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein

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Romantic Love Quotes

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Love them as they are, and forgive them everything. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your love is more powerful than your words or your actions. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and you. – Omar Khayyam

Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul. – Omar Khayyam

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? – Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. – Khalil Gibran

And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. – Khalil Gibran

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved. – Khalil Gibran

Love is the veil between lover and lover. – Khalil Gibran

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you.
If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you.
If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will. – Anonymous

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. – William Shakespeare

Love is blind. – William Shakespeare

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel. – Anonymous

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. – Anonymous

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear. – Anonymous

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it. – Anonymous

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. – Swedish Proverb

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – William Shakespeare

True love has no limits. – Anonymous

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Brandi Snyder

Who, being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. – Judy Garland

When love is not madness, it is not love. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Brief is life but love is long. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft

All you need is love. – John Lennon

Don’t fall for looks, they can deceive. Don’t fall for wealth, in the end it fades away. Find someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. – Anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. – St. Francis of Assisi