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Love Quotes

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Indian Proverb

Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Mother Theresa

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

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

Lao Tzu

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

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care

T. Howell

Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

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

Unknown

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Who, being loved, is poor ?

Oscar Wilde

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

Bertrand Russell

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

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

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

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.

Christina Rossetti

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Maya Angelou

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

Love like you'll never be hurt.

William Purkey

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

Elizabeth Bowen

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Somerset Maugham

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

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

P.A.C. de Beaumarchais

What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.

Robin St. John

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Lao Tzu

Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.

William Curry

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

Karl Menninger

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Kim Wilde

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

Victor Hugo

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

Cinderella

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

Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

Steve Winwood

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

Morrie Schwarz

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Japanese Proverb

Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.

William Blake

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.

Robert Kincaid

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

Victor Hugo

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

William Carlos Williams

Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Denis Diderot

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

Mallory Jones

Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.

Unknown

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch

There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.

William Wordsworth

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

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles A. Lindbergh

Honor the ocean of love.

George de Benneville

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.

Unknown

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

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

Anonymous

Love is not selfish.

Corinthians

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

Julie Andrews

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

Pat Carroll

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

Peter De Vries

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Love is friendship set to music

E. Joseph Cossman

Love is a fruit in season at all times.

Mother Theresa

Union gives strength.

Aesop

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

Carlos Castaneda

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

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

Charles Morgan

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

Love like there is no tomorrow.

Unknown

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

Felix Adler

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

Mother Teresa

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Gottfried Wilhem Von Leibniz

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Mother Theresa

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Theodor Reik

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Unknown

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving

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

William Curry Theodore

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler