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Love Quotes

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

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

T.S. Eliot

Love is friendship set to music

E. Joseph Cossman

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

James Baldwin

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

Lisa Hoffman

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown

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

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

Mother Teresa

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Von Schiller Fulton J. Sheen

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

Jermaine Stewart

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

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

Elinor Glyn

Love is a verb.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Jean Anouilh

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Makaino Kouji

We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

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

O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.

Robert Burns

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

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.

Anonymous

May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.

L.O. Baird

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

David Levesque

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

I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

John Dryden

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

La Rouchefoucauld

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

Love is a moment that lasts forever.

Julie Wittey

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

Frances Marion

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Diane Ackerman

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

Soul meets soul on lover's lips.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A simple I love you means more than money.

Frank Sinatra

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

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

Peter Ustinov

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

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

Richard Bach

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.

Corinthians

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Mother Teresa

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !

Ira Gershwin

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

David Viscott

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Theodor Reik

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

Du Coeur

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Mother Teresa

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

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

Felix Adler

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.

James Baldwin

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

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

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

Washington Irving

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

Love is a fruit in season at all times.

Mother Theresa

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

Ben Oliver

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

Sophocles

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love is the whole and more than all.

E.E. Cummings

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

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

Josiah G. Holland

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne Sophie Swetchine

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived

Margaret Mitchell

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.

Jimi Hollemans

I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Margaret Anderson