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Love Quotes

Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.

Unknown

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

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Andy Warhol

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Ivan Panin

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

Jennifer Wilson

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

Dalai Lama

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Robert C. Solomon

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

Maureen Duffy

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Thomas Moore

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

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

John Eldredge

Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Germaine De Stael

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

Mark Twain

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

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

David Viscott

Come, let us make love deathless.

Herbert Trench

Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !

Ira Gershwin

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

Harville Hendrix

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

Charles Dickens

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Gottfried Wilhem Von Leibniz

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, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

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

William Butler Yeats

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

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

Mary Parrish

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

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

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

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

The Shulamite

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

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 heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

Jacques Benigne Bossuel

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

Germaine De Stael

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

Eva Gabor

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Tom Robbins

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

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.

Robert Kincaid

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Levi ben Gershon

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Unknown

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

Kim Wilde

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

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

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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

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

Edwin Arnold

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.

Maya Angelou

Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E.E. Cummings

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Rhett Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

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

It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.

Mallory Jones

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

Daniel Heinsius

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Barbara De Angelis

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

David Levesque

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Somerset Maugham

Love those who love you.

Voltaire

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

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

William Blake

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

Unattributed

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.

Leos Janacek

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

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

Samuel Lover

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

Leo Buscaglia

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Indian Proverb

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Woody Allen

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Unknown

To know me is to love me.

Unknown

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

Muda Saint Michael

Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !

Mandy Forkner

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

Josiah G. Holland

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

James Baldwin