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Love Quotes

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Edwin Arnold

Love is not selfish.

Corinthians

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Pearl Bailey

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

K. Knight

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

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Love, two minds without a single thought.

Philip Barry

If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Corinthians

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

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

John Bulwer

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

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

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

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

Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

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

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

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

James Baldwin

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

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

Germaine De Stael

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

Theodor Reik

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

T.S. Eliot

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Muriel Spark

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

I saw and loved.

Edward Gibbon

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 the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse Marie De Lamartine

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

Buddha

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charlie Brown

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

Kahlil Gibran

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

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

Alexander Smith

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Mother Theresa

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.

Luciano De Crescenzo

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

Gieselle C. Viera

A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

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

William S. Burroughs

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Bertrand Russell

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

Jean Anouilh

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

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

Somerset Maugham

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

Mary Parrish

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Peter De Vries

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

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Maureen Duffy

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

Brian Andres

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

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

Lao Tzu

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

Mother Teresa

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Jim Croce

Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

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

Elizabeth Ashley

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

Gloria Steinhem

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

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

The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.

Jessica Brumley

What comes from the heart, touches the heart.

Don Sibet

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

Woody Allen

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Makaino Kouji

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

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

Goethe

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Charles Morgan

I love you - those three words have my life in them.

Alexandrea

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

John Dryden

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

Samantha Juarez

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

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Union gives strength.

Aesop

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

Og Mandino

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

Erich Fromm

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

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Thoreau