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Love Quotes

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H.L. Mencken

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

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

George Sands

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Anonymous

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

John Eldredge

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

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

Somerset Maugham

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

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

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

Karen Casey

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl Buck

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron

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

Mignon McLaughlin

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Edwin Arnold

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

Erich Fromm

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.

Anonymous

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Woody Allen

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

Sarah Bernhardt

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?

Cinderella

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

Germaine De Stael

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

La Bruyere

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Aretha Franklin

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

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

Mother Theresa

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

Jimi Hendrix

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Thoreau

How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Marguerite De Valois

It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.

Mallory Jones

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

Smiley Blanton

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

Maya Angelou

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

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

J.M. Barrie

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Morrie Schwarz

True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.

K. Knight

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

William Blake

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Leo Buscaglia

Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Mother Theresa

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

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

Anonymous

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Bertrand Russell

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

Will Moss

Love that is true never grows old.

Elben Bano

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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

Goethe

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

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Og Mandino

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

Rhett Butler

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

William Blake

But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Oscar Wilde

What is life without the radiance of love.

Von Schiller

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Humphrey Bogart

You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.

When Harry Met Sally

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Come, let us make love deathless.

Herbert Trench

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

David Levesque

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

My heart shall be thy garden.

Alice Meynell

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Robert Sexton

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

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

Love is the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

Happy wife, happy life.

Jeff Allen

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

Theodor Reik

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Peter De Vries

The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

Jim Croce

Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.

Ben Oliver

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

Thornton Wilder

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

Nick Richardson

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

Thornton Wilder