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Love Quotes

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

Thornton Wilder

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.

L.O. Baird

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Sarah Bernhardt

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

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

Unknown

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

Mother Teresa

We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Morrie Schwarz

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?

Cinderella

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Somerset Maugham

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.

Leos Janacek

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J.M. Barrie

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

Charles Morgan

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Otomo No Yakamochi

For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

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

Aristotle

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

I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.

William Blake

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl Buck

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.

Dante

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl Menninger

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.

Mother Teresa

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

James Baldwin

You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.

Alanis Morrissette

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

William Shakespeare

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.

Sophocles

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.

Ba'al Shem Tov

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Felix Adler

It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Anonymous

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

Buddha

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

My heart shall be thy garden.

Alice Meynell

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Ivan Panin

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

La Rouchefoucauld

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

Elizabeth Ashley

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

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

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.

K. Knight

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

Till I loved, I never lived, enough.

Emily Dickinson

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

William Curry Theodore

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

Virgil

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

Robert A. Heinlein

To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

Give all to love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.

Rusty Silvey

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Anne Dillard

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mother Theresa

Love is the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

There are never enough I Love You's.

Lenny Bruce

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

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 I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Plato

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Barbara De Angelis

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.

Shakespeare

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

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.

Mallory Jones

Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.

William Wordsworth