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Love Quotes

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

Kahlil Gibran

That love is all there is is all we know of love.

Emily Dickinson

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Anzia Yezierska

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

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

J.M. Barrie

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

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

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

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

Theodor Reik

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

William Curry

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

Dalai Lama

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

Elizabeth Von Arnim

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

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

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

Victor Hugo

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.

Stephen Packer

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Leanna L. Bartram

You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.

Daniel Heinsius

Union gives strength.

Aesop

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

Washington Irving

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

Anne Dillard

Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.

Alfred Adler

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

John Dryden

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 madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

Plato

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

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

Mother Teresa

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.

Daniel Monroe Tuttle

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

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Robin St. John

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

Mother Theresa

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

John Eldredge

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.

Japanese Proverb

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

Tom Robbins

Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.

Khalil Gibran

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

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

Jessica Brumley

Love reminds you that nothing else matters.

Amy Bushell

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

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

Margaret Anderson

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

David Wilkerson

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

La Bruyere

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

Kahlil Gibran

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

John Keats

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

Mary Baker Eddy

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

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

David Viscott

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

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

Sam Keen

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

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is a verb.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

William Butler Yeats

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

Alexandrea

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

William Shakespeare

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Sam Keen

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love that is true never grows old.

Elben Bano

Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.

Lisa Grude

It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

My heart is ever at your service.

Shakespeare

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

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.

Rusty Silvey

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

Cinderella

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

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

All love is sweet, given or returned.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

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 knows no bounds.

Unknown