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Love Quotes

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

Gottfried Wilhem Von Leibniz

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

Karen Casey

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

William Shakespeare

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charlie Brown

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

Ben Oliver

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Santa Teresa de Jesus

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

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Leanna L. Bartram

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

Samuel Butler

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

Cinderella

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

Petrarch

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

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

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

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

Unattributed

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

William Curry

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

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

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

Rosemonde Gerard

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D.H. Lawrence

If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Corinthians

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

Julie Andrews

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Unknown

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

Daniel Monroe Tuttle

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

Victor Hugo

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Nick Richardson

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

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

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

Love reminds you that nothing else matters.

Amy Bushell

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

Alice Walker

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

Victor Hugo

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Picasso

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

John Dryden

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

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

Peter De Vries

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

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

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

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

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

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

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

Luciano De Crescenzo

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

Washington Irving

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.

James Baldwin

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

T. Howell

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Elizabeth Ashley

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 letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

Love is the river of life in the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

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

John Keats

Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

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

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

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

William Butler Yeats

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 think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Humphrey Bogart

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.

Daniel Heinsius

The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

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

William Wordsworth

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

Louis Aragon

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Muriel Spark

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

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

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

Denis Diderot

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Marc Chagall

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

For Love is Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh

O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.

Robert Burns

Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.

Martin Luther King Jr.