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Love Quotes

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 is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Erich Fromm

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

Harville Hendrix

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?

Cinderella

Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Robert C. Solomon

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

William Butler Yeats

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

Unattributed

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

Anonymous

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Plato

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Robert Sexton

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Mother Theresa

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

Love is when reality is better than your dreams.

Becky Graham

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.

Rusty Silvey

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

Sholem Aleichem

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

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

Goethe

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

Rumi

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 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

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

Theodor Reik

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Santa Teresa de Jesus

The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.

Ken Robbins

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Oscar Wilde

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

Brian Andres

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

Emily Bronte

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

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

Mother Theresa

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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

Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.

Lisa Grude

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.

William Blake

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

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 not selfish.

Corinthians

I love you - those three words have my life in them.

Alexandrea

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

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

Muriel Spark

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

Erich Fromm

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

J.M. Barrie

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

Mark Twain

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

Thornton Wilder

If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Corinthians

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

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Anonymous

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Khalil Gibran

What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.

Robin St. John

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

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

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

David Viscott

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

The Shulamite

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

True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.

Leanna L. Bartram

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

Voltaire

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Kim 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

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

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

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.

Soloman

My heart shall be thy garden.

Alice Meynell

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

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

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 it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

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

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

La Bruyere

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

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Winston Churchill