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Love Quotes

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

John Dryden

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?

Emily Bronte

Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.

Virgil

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Sandy Wilson

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Barbara De Angelis

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

Soloman

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

Maureen Duffy

All you need is love.

John Lennon

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

Emily Bronte

Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

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

Elizabeth Ashley

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

David Viscott

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

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

I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.

L.O. Baird

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

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

Maya Angelou

What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

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

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

Kim Wilde

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

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

Samuel Lover

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Aristotle

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Mark Twain

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

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

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

Anatole France

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

Plato

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

Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Thomas Parnell

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Carlos Castaneda

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Otomo No Yakamochi

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder

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

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Pat Carroll

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Karen Casey

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

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

Zig Ziglar

My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.

Anonymous

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

P.A.C. de Beaumarchais

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

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

Leo Buscaglia

Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

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

Marcel Proust

Who, being loved, is poor ?

Oscar Wilde

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

William Shakespeare

The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

All love is sweet, given or returned.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

William Butler Yeats

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

J.M. Barrie

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sands

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

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

John Eldredge

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Maya Angelou

The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.

Jessica Brumley

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

James Baldwin

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

Unknown

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love is perfect kindness

Joseph Campbell

To know me is to love me.

Unknown

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Indian Proverb

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

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.

Sarah Cunningham

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

Anonymous

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

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

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum