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Love Quotes

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Somerset Maugham

Love is the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

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

Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.

Collin McCarty

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

Love is perfect kindness

Joseph Campbell

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

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?

Henry David Thoreau

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

Anonymous

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

Charles Dickens

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

Elinor Glyn

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

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

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

When Harry Met Sally

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

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

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

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

Love is my religion, I could die for it.

John Keats

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

Cinderella

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

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Lord Drewar

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

Germaine De Stael

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise Hay

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

Cathy Carlyle

There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

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

Gloria Steinhem

One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.

C. T. Davis

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving

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

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

William Butler Yeats

Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

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

What comes from the heart, touches the heart.

Don Sibet

Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.

Judith Viorst

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

Mother Teresa

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

The Shulamite

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

Sam Keen

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

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

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

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

My heart shall be thy garden.

Alice Meynell

Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?

Frances Marion

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

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

Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

Sholem Aleichem

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

David Levesque

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

Samuel Lover

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

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Barbara De Angelis

I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

William Shakespeare

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

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

Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Pat Carroll

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

Benjamin Disraeli

To know me is to love me.

Unknown

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

Rumi

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 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 is not selfish.

Corinthians

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Harville Hendrix

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

William Wordsworth

Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

Steve Winwood

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

Petrarch

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

All you need is love.

John Lennon

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Lao Tzu

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

G. Moore

Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Unknown

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

Our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Thomas Parnell

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

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

Smiley Blanton