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Love Quotes

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

Jane Austen

Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

Franklin P. Jones

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Kahlil Gibran

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Andy Warhol

Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

H.L. Mencken

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Jessica Brumley

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

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

Somerset Maugham

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

Japanese Proverb

Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love

Makaino Kouji

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

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

Muda Saint Michael

I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.

Alice Walker

This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Muriel Spark

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew

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

Karen Casey

Love is perfect kindness

Joseph Campbell

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

William Wordsworth

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

William Shakespeare

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.

Sophocles

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

Anita Brookner

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

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

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.

Rusty Silvey

Love is a fruit in season at all times.

Mother Theresa

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.

Anonymous

Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.

Sarah Cunningham

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

William Carlos Williams

Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.

Collin McCarty

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

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

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

Gieselle C. Viera

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.

Robert Herrick

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

Elizabeth Ashley

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

Voltaire

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne

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 when reality is better than your dreams.

Becky Graham

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Goethe

Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon

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

W. Stanley Mooneyham

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

Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.

Anonymous

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

John Bulwer

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

Anatole France

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

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 my religion, I could die for it.

John Keats

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Khalil Gibran

We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal

The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.

John Eldredge

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.

Daniel Monroe Tuttle

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

John Lennon

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.

Judith Viorst

Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Mother Theresa

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.

Mary Parrish

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.

Luciano De Crescenzo

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Barbara De Angelis

The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

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

Pat Carroll

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

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

Jim Croce

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Till I loved, I never lived, enough.

Emily Dickinson

To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare