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Love Quotes

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.

Dalai Lama

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Anne Dillard

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

Voltaire

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Charles A. Lindbergh

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

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Henry Drummond

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

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

Plato

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

Henry David Thoreau

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.

Kuuipo Mark

The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

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 always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Denis Diderot

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

Erich Fromm

All you need is love.

John Lennon

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

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

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Hermann Hesse

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

Smiley Blanton

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

Peter Ustinov

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

Felix Adler

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.

William S. Burroughs

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

Somerset Maugham

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

William Shakespeare

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Kyle Schmidt

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

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Anonymous

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

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

Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.

Anonymous

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell

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

Victor Hugo

For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.

Samantha Juarez

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Somerset Maugham

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J.M. Barrie

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

William Carlos Williams

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

Anonymous

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

Marc Chagall

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sands

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

Joan Crawford

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Julie Andrews

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Mother Teresa

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

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

David Levesque

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

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

Carlos Castaneda

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

Leo Tolstoy

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

David Wilkerson

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

John Dryden

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

Elizabeth Ashley

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

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

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

Muriel Spark

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

Unknown

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

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

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

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.

K. Knight

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

The Shulamite

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Zig Ziglar

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

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Maya Angelou

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe