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Love Quotes

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

John Eldredge

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

William Curry Theodore

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

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

Maya Angelou

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

William Blake

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

La Rouchefoucauld

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

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Mother Teresa

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

Love is my religion, I could die for it.

John Keats

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

Carlos Castaneda

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

Og Mandino

Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Ikhide Oshoma

All you need is love.

John Lennon

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Barbara De Angelis

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

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

Daniel Monroe Tuttle

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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 hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

John Keats

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

Theodor Reik

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

Mark Twain

Love reminds you that nothing else matters.

Amy Bushell

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

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 the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

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

Mother Teresa

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

Anatole France

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

Erich Fromm

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

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

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

T.S. Eliot

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

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

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

What is life without the radiance of love.

Von Schiller

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

Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?

Richard Bach

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

Unknown

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

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

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

Victor Hugo

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

Mark Twain

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?

Henry David Thoreau

A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.

Robert Herrick

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

Till I loved, I never lived, enough.

Emily Dickinson

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

Sarah Bernhardt

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mother Theresa

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

Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

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

Samuel Butler

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.

Dante

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

The Shulamite

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

James Baldwin

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

Charles A. Lindbergh

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

Thornton Wilder

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Louise Hay

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

Muriel Spark

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

David Viscott

Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love is when reality is better than your dreams.

Becky Graham

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kahlil Gibran

The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.

Robert Kincaid

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

John Dryden

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

James Baldwin

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

W. Stanley Mooneyham

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

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

Honor the ocean of love.

George de Benneville

If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man

Aretha Franklin

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Marc Chagall