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Love Quotes

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

You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.

Daniel Heinsius

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

Sam Keen

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

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

Nick Richardson

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

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

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

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

Karen Casey

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

Mother Teresa

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

Jean Anouilh

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 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

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

Smiley Blanton

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love

Makaino Kouji

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

Samuel Butler

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

William Curry

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

Somerset Maugham

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

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

Marcel Proust

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

Woody Allen

Real love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

Stacie Cunningham

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

Denis Diderot

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care

T. Howell

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

Aristotle

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

Goethe

Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Kahlil Gibran

Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.

Daniel Monroe Tuttle

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

Muriel Spark

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Oscar Wilde

We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

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

Unknown

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

To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

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

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

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

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

William Blake

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.

John Keats

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

W. Stanley Mooneyham

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

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Who, being loved, is poor ?

Oscar Wilde

Love is a verb.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

Love like there is no tomorrow.

Unknown

I saw and loved.

Edward Gibbon

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

Love like you'll never be hurt.

William Purkey

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Carlos Castaneda

Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

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

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mark Twain

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

Rumi

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.

Dante

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.

Thomas Trahern

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

Mother Theresa

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

John Dryden

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

Samantha Juarez

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Picasso

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

Mother Teresa

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

David Wilkerson

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

Corinthians

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Leo Buscaglia

Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?

Frances Marion

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Santa Teresa de Jesus

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

Cathy Carlyle

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

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

Robin St. John

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

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Josiah G. Holland

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

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

Victor Hugo