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Love Quotes

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

Japanese Proverb

Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

William Curry

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

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

Maya Angelou

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

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

Louis Aragon

Love like you'll never be hurt.

William Purkey

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

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

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

Love, two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Otomo No Yakamochi

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Pearl Bailey

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

La Rouchefoucauld

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

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

Cathy Carlyle

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

Julie Andrews

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

Alice Walker

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Santa Teresa de Jesus

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.

Sophocles

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

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

Mallory Jones

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

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

Morrie Schwarz

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Barbara De Angelis

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

W. Stanley Mooneyham

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

Denis Diderot

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

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

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

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

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

John Keats

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

William Blake

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

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

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

Charlie Brown

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Goethe

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

Mary Parrish

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

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

Sam Keen

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

Thornton Wilder

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

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

William Wordsworth

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

Anatole France

Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.

Virgil

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

Brian Andres

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.

Dante

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

Thomas Campbell

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Barbara De Angelis

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

Unknown

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

Will Moss

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

Nick Richardson