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Love Quotes

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

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

Honor the ocean of love.

George de Benneville

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

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

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

Somerset Maugham

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

Charles Caleb Colton

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care

T. Howell

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

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini

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

Sam Keen

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

Rumi

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

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 a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Charles A. Lindbergh

Love is perfect kindness

Joseph Campbell

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Rumi

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

David Levesque

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

Mary Parrish

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

Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.

Muda Saint Michael

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

Ben Oliver

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Love is the only rational act.

Morrie Schwarz

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

Sam Keen

Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.

Unknown

Love is a many splendered thing.

Nat King Cole

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

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

William Curry Theodore

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

Elizabeth Ashley

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

Khalil Gibran

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

William Butler Yeats

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

Lisa Grude

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

Pat Carroll

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal

Happy wife, happy life.

Jeff Allen

This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Muriel Spark

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

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.

William Blake

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

David Wilkerson

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

Jean Anouilh

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Karen Casey

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

Germaine De Stael

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

Richard Bach

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Hermann Hesse

Love is a hole in the heart.

Ben Hecht

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.

John Keats

Love is friendship set to music

E. Joseph Cossman

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

Maureen Duffy

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

Diane Ackerman

Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

Mother Theresa

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

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

C. T. Davis

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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Eva Gabor

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

La Bruyere

Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Elinor Glyn

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

John Dryden

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

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

If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man

Aretha Franklin

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

But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

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

Theodor Reik

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

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

Gloria Steinhem

All you need is love.

John Lennon

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

John Eldredge

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

The Shulamite

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

Thornton Wilder

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

William Butler Yeats

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.

Ba'al Shem Tov

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

Anne Sophie Swetchine

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell

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

Victor Hugo

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

Mother Theresa