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Love Quotes

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

Anatole France

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

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Frank Tebbetts

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

Plato

Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

That love is all there is is all we know of love.

Emily Dickinson

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

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

Theodor Reik

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up

James Baldwin

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

All you need is love.

John Lennon

For Love is Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

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

Somerset Maugham

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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 the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

Anonymous

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

Anita Brookner

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.

Maya Angelou

Soul meets soul on lover's lips.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Unknown

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

Gloria Steinhem

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

James Baldwin

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

Og Mandino

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

Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

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

Felix Adler

Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.

Unknown

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

Erich Fromm

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm

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

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Leo Buscaglia

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

William Wordsworth

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

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

William Carlos Williams

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

Anonymous

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

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

Pat Carroll

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

William Shakespeare

Union gives strength.

Aesop

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

Unattributed

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

Honor the ocean of love.

George de Benneville

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

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

Sarah Bernhardt

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

Smiley Blanton

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Indian Proverb

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

Germaine De Stael

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew

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 without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

Love is a moment that lasts forever.

Julie Wittey

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

Karen Casey

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

Zig Ziglar

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Love, two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived

Margaret Mitchell

Love is a hole in the heart.

Ben Hecht

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

William Shakespeare

Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.

Corinthians

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

Karl Menninger

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

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

Ingrid Bergman

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

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

Robert Kincaid

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

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

Khalil Gibran

Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain