love quotes

"If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." -Anonymous

"A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one." -Guy De Maupassant

"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

"If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee."
-Anne Bradstreet

"The best proof of love is trust." -Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes." -Willa Cather

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
-Erich Fromm

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu

If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." -Anonymous

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one." -Guy De Maupassant

"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 builds bridges where there are none." -R. H. Delaney

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton

"If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee."
-Anne Bradstreet

"The best proof of love is trust." -Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes." -Willa Cather

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -Anonymous

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life." -Smiley Blanton

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." -Anonymous

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." -Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." -Hellen Keller

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

"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." -Mistinguette

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." -Erich Fromm

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." -Javan

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu


Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
~ Mother Teresa

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
~ William Wordsworth

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
~ Robert Browning

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
~ UB40

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

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 is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
~ Cathy Carlyle


Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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


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


Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There?s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger


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


Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu


The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel


Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:
our love to others, and others' love to us.
~ Thomas Trahern


Love is always bestowed as a gift --
freely, willingly, and without expectation....
We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
~ Leo Buscaglia


It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
~ William Thackeray


Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
~ Fulton J. Sheen


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 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


The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~ Victor Hugo

There is no instinct like that of the heart.
~ Lord Byron


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


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


We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch


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


Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife
or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
~ Mother Teresa


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


Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes


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


What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
~ Henry Ward Beecher


Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones


The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity-love. And the story of a love is not importrnity.
~ Helen Hayes
ant-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of ete