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Love Quotes

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

La Rouchefoucauld

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.

Barbara De Angelis

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

Elizabeth Ashley

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Benjamin Franklin

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.

Rumi

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

Plato

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

Erich Fromm

It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.

Mallory Jones

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

William Carlos Williams

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

Anne Dillard

Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Voltaire

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

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

Lisa Grude

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

T.S. Eliot

Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

Will Moss

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

Ingrid Bergman

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

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

Daniel Heinsius

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

Unattributed

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

Maureen Duffy

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

A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.

Jimi Hollemans

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

Erich Fromm

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

Samuel Lover

Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

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

Daniel Monroe Tuttle

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

Anonymous

Love that is true never grows old.

Elben Bano

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

William Shakespeare

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Sarah Bernhardt

We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D.H. Lawrence

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

John Lennon Mignon McLaughlin

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

I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

William Shakespeare

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

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

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

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 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

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

Muriel Spark

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

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

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

William Blake

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

T. Howell

From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.

Ladislaus Boros

Love is friendship set to music

E. Joseph Cossman

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

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

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

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Rumi

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

Tom Robbins

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Bertrand Russell

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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 is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.

G. Moore

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

Karen Casey

I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

Unknown

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

Samantha Juarez

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

Frances Marion

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

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

Pearl Bailey

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

Thomas Trahern

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Gottfried Wilhem Von Leibniz

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

Elizabeth Ashley

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

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

William Shakespeare

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

Mother Teresa