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Love Quotes

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries

Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.

Ben Oliver

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mahatma Gandhi

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Jean Anouilh

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.

Virgil

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up

James Baldwin

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sands

Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.

John Keats

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

Lynda Barry

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Margaret Anderson

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

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

Voltaire

Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.

Corinthians

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

Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne

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

Gloria Steinhem

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.

James Baldwin

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Charles Morgan

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

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

Aristotle

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.

Stephen Packer

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Karen Casey

Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?

Emily Bronte

Love like you'll never be hurt.

William Purkey

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.

Rumi

Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.

Lisa Grude

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Frank Tebbetts

Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love is the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

Real love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.

Soloman

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.

Rusty Silvey

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Sandy Wilson

I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.

Dorothy L. Sayers

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Oscar Wilde

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

What comes from the heart, touches the heart.

Don Sibet

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Levi ben Gershon

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Julie Andrews

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Bertrand Russell

You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.

When Harry Met Sally

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Orlando Battista

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

Anonymous

Love is a hole in the heart.

Ben Hecht

The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Hermann Hesse

Love is my religion, I could die for it.

John Keats

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

Thomas Trahern

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.

John Dryden

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Hannah Arendy

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Unknown

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

John Lennon Mignon McLaughlin

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.

Carl Sandburg

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

Rumi

Love reminds you that nothing else matters.

Amy Bushell

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

Muda Saint Michael