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Love Quotes

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Maureen Duffy

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Thomas Moore

If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.

Anzia Yezierska

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

William Curry Theodore

The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.

Jessica Brumley

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

Love like there is no tomorrow.

Unknown

Love is the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Indian Proverb

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

William Carlos Williams

Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.

William Shakespeare

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.

Muda Saint Michael

Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Pat Carroll

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

Unknown

Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

Anatole France

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton

And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

Buddha

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Maya Angelou

We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

Samuel Lover

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.

Anonymous

Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Charles A. Lindbergh

Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

W. Stanley Mooneyham

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

All you need is love.

John Lennon

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

John Keats

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Cyril Connolly

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.

Barbara De Angelis

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon

This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.

La Rochefoucauld

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

Carlos Castaneda

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

Cathy Carlyle

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.

Dalai Lama

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.

Japanese Proverb

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

My heart shall be thy garden.

Alice Meynell

My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.

Anonymous

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Unknown

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived

Margaret Mitchell

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

Unattributed

Soul meets soul on lover's lips.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.

Aristotle

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

Gloria Steinhem

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Theresa

If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man

Aretha Franklin

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

P.A.C. de Beaumarchais

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon

A simple I love you means more than money.

Frank Sinatra

Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.

Anonymous

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.

Thomas Trahern

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

John Lennon Mignon McLaughlin

Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.

Khalil Gibran

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Robert Sexton

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.

Leanna L. Bartram

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

T.S. Eliot

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor