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Love Quotes

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

Alexander Smith

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

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

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Corinthians

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

Sam Keen

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown

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

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

P.A.C. de Beaumarchais

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

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

Mother Theresa

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

Lao Tzu

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

William Butler Yeats

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

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

Robin St. John

The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.

John Eldredge

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

William Shakespeare

Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

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

Mark Twain

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

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

William Wordsworth

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

William Carlos Williams

Soul meets soul on lover's lips.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Thomas Trahern

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

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

John Dryden

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

Elizabeth Ashley

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

The Shulamite

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 is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

John Bulwer

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Unknown

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

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

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

Morrie Schwarz

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

Pearl Bailey

Love is a verb.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.

Japanese Proverb

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

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

Samantha Juarez

Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Theodor Reik

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

Victor Hugo

Love knows no bounds.

Unknown

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Maureen Duffy

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

Samuel Butler

Love is a moment that lasts forever.

Julie Wittey

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Lord Drewar

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.

Montaigne

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

Charles A. Lindbergh

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

Leo Buscaglia

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Bertrand Russell

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

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Ingrid Bergman

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

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

Kim Wilde

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.

Anzia Yezierska

Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

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

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

David Levesque

Come, let us make love deathless.

Herbert Trench

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

Khalil Gibran

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld

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