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Love Quotes

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

Sam Keen

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

John Dryden

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Erich Fromm

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

Francis Bacon

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

T. Howell

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

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

Lynda Barry

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Josiah G. Holland

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

What comes from the heart, touches the heart.

Don Sibet

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

Elinor Glyn

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

La Rochefoucauld

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

Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.

Jean Anouilh

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

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

John Keats

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

Thornton Wilder

Honor the ocean of love.

George de Benneville

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !

Ira Gershwin

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

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

William Carlos Williams

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

La Rouchefoucauld

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Bertrand Russell

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

Love like you'll never be hurt.

William Purkey

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

Thornton Wilder

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

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

Stacie Cunningham

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

Kim Wilde

Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.

William Curry

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

David Levesque

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Lisa Grude

Union gives strength.

Aesop

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Kyle Schmidt

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Unknown

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

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

G. Moore

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Felix Adler

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

James Baldwin

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

Mother Teresa

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Goethe

Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love

Makaino Kouji

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

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

David Viscott

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

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

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Humphrey Bogart

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

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

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

Nick Richardson

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

Samuel Butler

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Leo Buscaglia

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

William Curry Theodore

Love is perfect kindness

Joseph Campbell

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

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

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

John Lennon

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

Gieselle C. Viera

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Plato

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Frank Tebbetts

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