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Love Quotes

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

Nick Richardson

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

John Lennon Mignon McLaughlin

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.

Dalai Lama

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

Unknown

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

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 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

In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.

Japanese Proverb

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

William S. Burroughs

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

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

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

The Shulamite

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

There are never enough I Love You's.

Lenny Bruce

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

Sandy Wilson

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

Anita Brookner

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

W. Stanley Mooneyham

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.

Anzia Yezierska

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Anne Dillard

To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

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

Voltaire

Love is the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Lisa Hoffman

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Humphrey Bogart

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

Samantha Juarez

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

William Butler Yeats

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

Stacie Cunningham

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.

Mary Parrish

Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !

Mandy Forkner

We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time

Jermaine Stewart

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Sam Keen

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

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

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

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 like you'll never be hurt.

William Purkey

Love is friendship set to music

E. Joseph Cossman

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

William Curry Theodore

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

La Rochefoucauld

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

Elizabeth Von Arnim

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

Victor Hugo

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

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

Samuel Lover

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

Elinor Glyn

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

Robin St. John

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

Sholem Aleichem

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

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

Goethe

For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

Love is perfect kindness

Joseph Campbell

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

Gloria Steinhem

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Wordsworth

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David Riklan

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

Francois Mauriac

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

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

Smiley Blanton

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Thoreau

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

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

Mallory Jones

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

Leo Buscaglia

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Ivan Panin

True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.

Leanna L. Bartram

Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.

UB40

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

Lao Tzu

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

Germaine De Stael

Love is when reality is better than your dreams.

Becky Graham

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Happy wife, happy life.

Jeff Allen

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

Erich Fromm

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

William Curry

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

Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Anonymous

Work is love made manifest.

Unattributed

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell