some very beautiful quotes i've compiled from the net thru extensive research ... hope you guys will be touched too...  read on...

"We have two kinds of fears. One is a fear that whatever is going on is going to go on forever. It's just not true -- nothing goes on forever. The other is the fear that, even if it doesn't go on forever, the pain of whatever is happening will be so terrible we won't be able to stand it. There is a gut level of truth about this fear. It would be ridiculous to pretend that in our lives, in these physical bodies, which can hurt very much, and in relationships that can hurt very much, there aren't some very, very painful times. Even so, I think we underestimate ourselves. Terrible as times may be, I believe we can stand them."
--Sylvia Boorstein

"The years teach much that the days never know."
-- Emerson

"If you bring forth what is within you, it will heal you. And if you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you."
(from the Gospel of St. Thomas)

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."
--Mother Teresa

What we love to do we find time to do.
--John L. Spalding

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
--Leo Buscaglia

Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.
--Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich's ABC, 1962

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
--Unknown

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
--David Grayson

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving -- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
--Aldous Leonard Huxley British writer

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
--Albert Einstein

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is.
--Duke Ellington (1899-1974) American jazz artist

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
--Helen Hayes

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac

They do not love that do not show their love.
--John Heywood (1497?-1580?)

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
--Diane Arbus

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved
--Sigmund Freud

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

If you love the good that you see in another, you make it your own.
--Saint Gregory The Great

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
--Elbert Hubbard

The best way to love is to love like you have never been hurt
--Anonymous

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
--Robert Frost

For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.
--David Myers

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
--St. Augustine

Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.
--Victor M. Garcia Jr.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; Even love unreturned has its rainbow
--Eaton Stannard Barret

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

The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
--Nat King Cole

Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
--Anonymous

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
--Jean Anouilh