Love Quotes - DoolBug

Love Quotes

Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Theodor Reik

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

Cathy Carlyle

My heart shall be thy garden.

Alice Meynell

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Harville 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

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

Karen Casey

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?

Henry David Thoreau

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

Samuel Lover

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Anonymous

Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Marguerite De Valois

If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man

Aretha Franklin

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Goethe

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

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

Sam Keen

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

Unknown

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

T.S. Eliot

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

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David Riklan

Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

Will Moss

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

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

Charles Caleb Colton

What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

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 means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron

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

Somerset Maugham

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

Mary Parrish

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks

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

John Dryden

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

Robert Kincaid

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Unknown

Our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

Real love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Og Mandino

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

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

James Baldwin

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Franklin P. Jones

Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.

UB40

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo

We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time

Jermaine Stewart

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Dorothy Parker

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

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

William Carlos Williams

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

Love like there is no tomorrow.

Unknown

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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 the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.

Germaine De Stael

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

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

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

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

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

William Wordsworth

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Luciano De Crescenzo

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

W. Stanley Mooneyham

Who, being loved, is poor ?

Oscar Wilde

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Marc Chagall

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.

Sholem Aleichem

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.

The Shulamite

Love is friendship set to music

E. Joseph Cossman

All you need is love.

John Lennon

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

La Rouchefoucauld

Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

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

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne