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Love Quotes

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

John Lennon

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

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

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Theodor Reik

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

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

Thomas Trahern

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

Leo Buscaglia

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

To know me is to love me.

Unknown

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

George Sands

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

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

La Rochefoucauld

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

David Viscott

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

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

Rhett Butler

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

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

La Bruyere

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

Muriel Spark

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Somerset Maugham

Real love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

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

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

Love is the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

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

William Blake

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

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

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Elbert Hubbard

Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.

Unknown

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

Marcel Proust

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

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

Henry Ward Beecher

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

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

Lao Tzu

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

The Shulamite

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

Sam Keen

Love is a hole in the heart.

Ben Hecht

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.

Sophocles

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

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

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Humphrey Bogart

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

William Wordsworth

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Samantha Juarez

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch

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

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

J.M. Barrie

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

John Eldredge

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

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

Erich Fromm

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

There are never enough I Love You's.

Lenny Bruce

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

Mark Twain

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

Unattributed

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

La Rouchefoucauld

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Joan Crawford

Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Robert C. Solomon

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

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

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.

Alanis Morrissette

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

Elizabeth Von Arnim

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.

William S. Burroughs

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

Karen Casey

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

Voltaire

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

Kahlil Gibran

When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.

Kuuipo Mark

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Francoise Sagan

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Oscar Wilde

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

Richard Bach

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

Carlos Castaneda

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

Khalil Gibran

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

Anonymous

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.

Ba'al Shem Tov

Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Erica Jong

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

John Donne

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Hannah Arendy