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Love Quotes

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Sam Keen

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

Khalil Gibran

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

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

Corinthians

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Mignon McLaughlin

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries

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

Og Mandino

What's meant to be will always find a way

Trisha Yearwood

Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon

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

Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

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

John Dryden

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Unknown

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love is a moment that lasts forever.

Julie Wittey

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

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

Plato

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

Nick Richardson

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

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

Emily Bronte

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, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

Love is when reality is better than your dreams.

Becky Graham

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Robin St. John

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

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

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

Anonymous

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All you need is love.

John Lennon

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

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

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

Jimi Hendrix

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Somerset Maugham

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

Somerset Maugham

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

William Blake

Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.

Germaine De Stael

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

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give all to love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Levi ben Gershon

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

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

Otomo No Yakamochi

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

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

Erich Fromm

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.

Sholem Aleichem

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.

Unknown

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

W. Stanley Mooneyham

Love that is true never grows old.

Elben Bano

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown

There are never enough I Love You's.

Lenny Bruce

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

Love is a hole in the heart.

Ben Hecht

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

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

Tom Robbins

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

William Carlos Williams

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

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

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

G. Moore

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

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa

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

Will Moss

I saw and loved.

Edward Gibbon

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

James Baldwin

Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.

Corinthians

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

David Viscott

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

Samuel Butler