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Love Quotes

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

Og Mandino

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Thomas Moore

My heart shall be thy garden.

Alice Meynell

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 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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Erich Fromm

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

Somerset Maugham

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

Anne Dillard

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.

Marcel Proust

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

Voltaire

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

K. Knight

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

John Lennon Mignon McLaughlin

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise Hay

Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?

Emily Bronte

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.

Alfred Adler

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Virgil

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

Franklin P. Jones

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !

Ira Gershwin

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

Love is the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

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

Thornton Wilder

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Thomas Parnell

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Jeanne Moreau

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

Goethe

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Charles Morgan

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

Germaine De Stael

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

Mother Teresa

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

Khalil Gibran

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Theresa

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

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

Erich Fromm

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

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

Maya Angelou

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

Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.

Jean Anouilh

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

Charlie Brown

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

Marc Chagall

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

Nick Richardson

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

Unknown

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

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

Sam Keen

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

Dorothy Parker

Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.

Unknown

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

Petrarch

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne

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

George Sands

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Theodor Reik

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

Bertrand Russell

Union gives strength.

Aesop

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Ingrid Bergman

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Humphrey Bogart

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

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

Bertrand Russell

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Kahlil Gibran

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

James Baldwin

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

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

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

Mother Teresa

Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.

Sarah Cunningham

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

James Baldwin

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

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

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 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

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew