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Best Quotes About Love (Top 100)
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss -
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe -
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss -
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus -
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou -
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe -
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard -
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel -
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu -
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams -
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso -
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
C.S. Lewis -
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley -
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C.S. Lewis -
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen -
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare -
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo -
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde -
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar Wilde -
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz -
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway -
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee -
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare -
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen -
The heart was made to be broken.
Oscar Wilde -
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
Jodi Picoult -
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin -
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes -
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
Charles M. Schulz -
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
Marilyn Monroe -
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon -
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Nicole Krauss -
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anyway.
Lady Gaga -
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato -
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe -
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking -
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
Chuck Palahniuk -
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran -
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl -
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell -
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
Candace Bushnell -
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
For you, a thousand times over
Khaled Hosseini -
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller -
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou -
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
C.S. Lewis -
Who said nights were for sleep?
Marilyn Monroe -
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau -
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley -
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Maya Angelou -
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou -
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost -
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway -
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran -
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie -
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare -
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo -
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe -
A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever
Dave Matthews Band -
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Khalil Gibran -
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Charles Dickens -
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein -
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson -
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins -
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett -
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe -
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier -
love the life you live. live the life you love.
Bob Marley -
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Henry Miller -
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne -
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.
Stephenie Meyer -
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom -
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran -
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West -
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Marilyn Monroe -
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa -
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on—series polygamy—until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Tom Robbins -
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.
Jim Morrison -
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Marilyn Monroe -
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth -
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens -
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein -
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn -
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
Chuck Palahniuk -
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
Mitch Albom -
When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
Mitch Albom -
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Paul McCartney -
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Robert Frost
Even More Love Quotes
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leo Tolstoy -
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles -
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Blaise Pascal -
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
Brian Andreas -
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
Rita Mae Brown -
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford -
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare -
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel -
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns -
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer -
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela -
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.
Maya Angelou -
We were together. I forget the rest.
Walt Whitman -
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.
Sylvia Plath -
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus -
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde -
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo -
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus -
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with
Gillian Anderson -
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix -
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll -
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess -
I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.
Jonathan Safran Foer -
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle -
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy -
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown -
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson -
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost -
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller -
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand -
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens -
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen -
The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.
Gloria Naylor -
There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
Lorraine Hansberry -
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Mitch Albom -
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Khalil Gibran -
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin -
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Clive Barker -
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf -
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain -
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn -
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
Tom Robbins -
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
Toni Morrison -
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw -
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
Nicholas Sparks -
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
Chuck Klosterman -
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo -
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius -
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius -
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
Charles Dickens -
Love truth, but pardon error.
Voltaire -
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou -
When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
Arrigo Boito -
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia -
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov -
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham -
lovers alone wear sunlight.
E.E. Cummings -
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon -
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
Bob Marley -
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde -
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde -
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.
Joss Whedon -
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Kurt Cobain -
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
Marilyn Monroe -
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.
Johnny Depp -
Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.
Audrey Hepburn -
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James A. Michener -
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin -
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou -
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston -
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
Paulo Coelho -
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn -
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine -
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
Charles Dickens -
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing -
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran -
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer -
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
Fannie Flagg -
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri -
Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.
Anne Sexton -
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
David Nicholls -
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).
Milan Kundera -
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
Nicholas Sparks -
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier -
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein -
if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
Johnny Depp -
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe -
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes
Lord Byron -
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
Lady Gaga -
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
John Henry Newman -
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn -
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau -
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
Chuck Palahniuk -
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance
Oscar Wilde -
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
William Shakespeare -
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell -
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn -
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde -
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare -
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
Scott Westerfeld -
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
Maya Angelou -
When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all.
Nicholas Sparks -
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach -
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius -
Love would never leave us alone
Bob Marley -
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.
Jim Morrison -
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope -
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith -
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela -
We live as we dream—alone....
Joseph Conrad -
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
Frank Zappa -
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck -
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau -
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 -
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy -
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
Groucho Marx -
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
Cher -
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran -
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal -
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe -
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton -
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong -
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve Martin -
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
Ayn Rand -
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato -
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford -
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch -
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Derek Walcott -
Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.
Emily Giffin -
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Make me immortal with a kiss.
Christopher Marlowe -
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing -
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci -
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand -
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen -
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald -
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Charles Dickens -
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve -
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
Roald Dahl -
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde -
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein -
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde -
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.
Sherwood Anderson -
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen -
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Chuck Palahniuk -
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami -
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings -
When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.
Tom Robbins -
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
Louise Erdrich -
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron -
I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.
Nicholas Sparks -
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss -
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
Candace Bushnell -
We are all worthy of one another.
Edward P. Jones -
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe -
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell -
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie -
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West -
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Robin Williams -
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
JRR Tolkien -
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner -
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
William Shakespeare -
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 -
Don't cry for a man who's left you—the next one may fall for your smile.
Mae West -
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.
Raymond Carver -
I know my heart will never be the sameBut I'm telling myself I'll be okay
Sara Evans -
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo -
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates -
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein -
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
Corrie Ten Boom -
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna -
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole -
Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
Jodi Picoult -
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West -
I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
Og Mandino -
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee -
Sex is emotion in motion.
Mae West -
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
Tom Robbins -
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey -
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
Isabel Allende -
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
Jon Krakauer -
Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
Barbara de Angelis -
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde -
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon -
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein -
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis Borges -
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott -
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
Haruki Murakami -
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon -
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
Sylvia Plath -
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
Mark Twain -
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino -
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham -
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde -
The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Che Guevara -
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
Hugh Walpole -
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard -
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
Woody Allen -
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler -
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Thomas Merton -
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks -
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions
Woody Allen -
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go
Hermann Hesse -
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving -
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare -
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra -
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael -
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway -
Your heart is my piñata.
Chuck Palahniuk -
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert -
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends
John Churton Collins -
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde -
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau -
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
Confucius -
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.
Jon Krakauer -
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Confucius -
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson -
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Johnny Depp -
The more I know people, the more I love my dog.
Mark Twain -
I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.
Jennifer Weiner -
You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
William Faulkner -
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams -
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Rita Mae Brown -
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein -
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.
Bob Marley -
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West -
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
Dean Koontz -
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France -
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley -
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
Dante Alighieri -
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Malcolm X -
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman -
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.
Harvey Mackay -
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
Dorothy Parker -
You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
Mario Puzo -
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Marcus Aurelius -
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir -
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.
Lewis Grizzard -
I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.
Marilyn Manson -
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
Martha Graham -
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh -
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand -
There are never enough I Love You's.
Lenny Bruce -
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries -
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox -
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa -
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm -
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck -
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In love, one and one are one.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius -
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer -
Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
Benjamin Franklin -
Each time you happen to me all over again.
Edith Wharton -
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen -
Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.
Milan Kundera -
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Lawrence Durrell -
While I can't have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I'd take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I'd wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say "Will you"¦' my answer is "Yes', before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
Jeanette Winterson -
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud -
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Kahlil Gibran -
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Khalil Gibran -
Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Seuss -
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson -
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin -
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen -
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever knownâand even that is an understatement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward -
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King -
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
Mae West -
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde -
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
Jonathan Safran Foer -
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball -
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Jim Henson -
Overcome the devils with a thing called love.
Bob Marley -
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins -
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde -
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Richard Bach -
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
Philip Roth -
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway -
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey -
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde -
Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.
Bob Marley -
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Toni Morrison -
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
Bell hooks -
A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night
James Patterson -
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann -
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan -
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West -
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson -
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson Davies -
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare -
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams -
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
Judith Martin -
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost -
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther -
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward -
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran -
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
Thomas Merton -
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco Chanel -
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Pearl S. Buck -
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Agatha Christie -
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges -
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West -
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare -
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public
Cornel West -
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Umberto Eco -
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth -
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury -
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver -
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
Susan B. Anthony -
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Julie de Lespinasse -
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran -
Love is a beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott -
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley -
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 -
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney -
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
Marianne Williamson -
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
Virginia Woolf -
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh — anything but work.
Abraham Lincoln -
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
Charlie Chaplin -
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal -
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.
Truman Capote -
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
Marilyn Manson -
Look your best - who said love is blind?
Mae West -
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Jerome K. Jerome -
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton -
A weed is but an unloved flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
Robert Frost -
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Henry Rollins -
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West -
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Hippocrates -
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach -
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde -
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso -
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything
Bill Russell -
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John Lennon -
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley -
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron -
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Erica Jong -
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
John Lennon -
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball -
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift -
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles -
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal -
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers -
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
Chuck Palahniuk -
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
Mae West -
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Maya Angelou -
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 its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell -
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus -
For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love...
Nicole Krauss -
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
Cheryl Strayed -
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt -
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
Brennan Manning -
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
Katherine Mansfield -
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
Alberto Moravia -
Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.
Guru Gobind Singh -
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
William James -
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
Elizabeth Wurtzel -
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin -
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
Dorothy Day -
Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.
Eminem -
A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley -
My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.
Omar Khayyam -
This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.
Howard W. Hunter -
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron -
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers -
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
J. G. Holland -
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Chuck Palahniuk -
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens -
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver -
After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor -
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde -
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Voltaire -
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.
Richard Dawkins -
We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children
Muhammad Ali -
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
Annie Leibovitz -
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank -
She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.
Ken Follett -
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald -
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Steve Jobs -
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot -
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
Anna Sewell -
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton -
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
Frida Kahlo -
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck -
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 -
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash -
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin -
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
John Lennon -
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley -
It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.
Gerard Way -
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
Oscar Wilde -
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown -
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke -
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington -
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love
John Lennon -
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Eminem -
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
Benjamin Hoff -
I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.
Tupac Shakur -
War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.
Tim O'Brien -
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
Edwin Markham -
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
Woody Allen -
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner -
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain -
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Jean Anouilh -
At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou -
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton -
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker -
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn -
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Mae West -
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West -
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
Robert Frost -
I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace.
Rosa Parks -
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
Criss Jami -
And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
Henry James -
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get â only what you are expecting to give â which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
Katharine Hepburn -
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.
Jennifer Weiner -
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou -
You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.
Fannie Flagg -
We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars grow old...
Bayard Taylor -
They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
Henry Rollins -
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love
William Blake -
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker -
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.
Ani DiFranco -
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Mae West -
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Leigh Hunt -
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
Martin Buber -
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa -
I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.
John Donne -
I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.
Andy Warhol -
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle -
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein -
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake -
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Marguerite Duras -
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot -
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc -
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman -
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Oscar Wilde -
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo F. Buscaglia -
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie -
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 -
I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.
Annie Oakley -
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott -
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy Parker -
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne -
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes -
What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?
Jodi Picoult -
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Johnny Depp -
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
Julia Roberts -
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Sophia Loren -
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin -
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali -
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
Adrienne Rich -
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Peter Tosh -
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm -
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Eduardo Galeano -
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare -
True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach -
There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.
Dan Millman -
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine -
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost -
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar -
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza -
The score never interested me, only the game.
Mae West -
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough -
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
James Allen -
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
Maya Angelou -
The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.
Dorothy Day -
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich -
As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.
Jodi Picoult -
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving -
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.
Evelyn Waugh -
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
Marilyn Manson -
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana -
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust -
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Humphrey Bogart -
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar -
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni -
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
Dorothy Parker -
Think for yourself and question authority.
Timothy Leary -
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood -
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Matthew Henry -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
Pam Brown -
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov -
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love
Erich Fromm -
The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
Bell hooks -
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Erica Jong -
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
Madonna -
If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?
Saadat Hasan Manto -
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
Drew Barrymore -
Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
Maya Angelou -
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo -
A kiss may ruin a human life
Oscar Wilde -
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also " if you love them enough.
George Washington Carver -
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
Gary Snyder -
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton -
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo -
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil Gibran -
I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee
Ian Mcewan -
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou -
It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
Eartha Kitt -
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho -
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.
Jeremy Clarkson -
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden -
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Woody Allen -
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz -
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis -
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
John Gray -
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
William S. Burroughs -
The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.
Richard Rohr -
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee -
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
James A. Michener -
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov -
I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
Sylvester Stallone -
Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
Gary Zukav -
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger -
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
Constantin Stanislavski -
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen -
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
Guy Debord -
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby -
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich -
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde -
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
Erich Segal -
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn -
It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato -
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm -
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Marlene Dietrich -
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde -
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
Boris Vian -
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Rosa Parks -
The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot -
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 von Goethe -
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West -
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
Deepak Chopra -
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Lao Tzu -
People who love to eat are always the best people.
Julia Child -
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates -
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
William Allen White -
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
Ho Chi Minh -
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne -
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot -
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley -
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese -
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
Nora Ephron -
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir -
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday -
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck -
And the tree was happy
Shel Silverstein -
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal -
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin -
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard -
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey -
We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes, it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it.
Neil Strauss -
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
Chuck Palahniuk -
The best things in life aren't things.
Art Buchwald -
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein -
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts -
A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow -
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West -
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
Linda Hogan -
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
Leo Buscaglia -
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
Benjamin Franklin -
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time
Hannah Arendt -
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.
Ben Okri -
Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan -
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
Marcel Proust -
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.
Marlon Brando -
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber -
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran -
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
Lawrence Clark Powell -
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke -
There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
William Wordsworth -
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm -
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll -
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
Aberjhani -
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara de Angelis -
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer -
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson -
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France -
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
Albert Camus -
The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.
Charlie Sheen -
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Benjamin Franklin -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore -
Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.
Anne Michaels -
love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
William Shakespeare -
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch -
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
James Thurber -
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Nora Ephron -
As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard -
Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein -
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
Johnny Cash -
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Thomas Mann -
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates -
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise â it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise
Katherine Mansfield -
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates -
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
Chief Joseph -
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker -
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson -
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
Philip Yancey -
Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.
Erich Fromm -
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak -
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.
Alistair Cooke -
Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.
Matthew Kelly -
Love is energy of life.
Robert Browning -
That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act
Jim Morrison -
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
Jon Katz -
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
Ho Chi Minh -
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland -
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Oscar Wilde -
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve -
Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul
George Harrison -
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.
Ezra Taft Benson -
With our love, we could save the world.
George Harrison -
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Thomas Wolfe -
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle -
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley -
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
Jim Morrison -
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Lee Iacocca -
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne -
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
Gilda Radner -
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton -
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus -
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin -
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
Leo Buscaglia -
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant -
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt -
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich -
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
Sinclair B. Ferguson -
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson -
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning -
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.
David Deida -
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing el
Hermann Hesse -
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Christopher Morley -
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.
Barbara Kingsolver -
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen -
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin -
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis -
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
Chuck Palahniuk -
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Sydney J. Harris -
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
Edward Thomas -
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine -
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Sir Walter Scott -
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
Rollo May -
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne -
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
Guy de Maupassant -
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Kahlil Gibran -
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield -
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin -
And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.
Edmond Rostand -
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch -
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.
Melanie Griffith -
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
William Shakespeare -
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett -
He who love touches walks not in darkness.
Plato -
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.
Thomas Mann -
Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.
Marlene Dietrich -
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning -
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara de Angelis -
Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!
Al-Ghazali -
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker -
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz -
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
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 -
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
Garrison Keillor -
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle -
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey -
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott -
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
George MacDonald -
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Willie Nelson -
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle -
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel -
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder -
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Barbara Johnson -
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert -
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France -
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
Mary Baker Eddy -
Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.
John Denver -
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe -
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson -
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon -
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Kristin Chenoweth -
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
Cornel West -
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar -
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore -
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Rita Rudner -
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey -
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin Franklin -
Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu, Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do, Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way, So I'm all of the love that could make it today.
Shel Silverstein -
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Gwendolyn Brooks -
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
Oscar Wilde -
Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.
Kurt Tucholsky -
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz -
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller -
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young -
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson -
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck -
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne -
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Ella Fitzgerald -
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot -
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy -
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald -
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato -
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill -
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton -
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine -
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas -
When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.
Sappho -
i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
Eddie Vedder -
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
John Rawls -
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell -
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen -
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome -
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.
Louis Armstrong -
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.
Swami Vivekananda -
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
Natalie Goldberg -
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich -
All you need is love.
John Lennon -
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
Swedish Proverb -
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber -
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert -
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare -
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
Thomas Merton -
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie -
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Leigh Hunt -
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare -
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
E. e. cummings -
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand -
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
Robert Burns -
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Helen Rowland -
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie -
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter -
Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from me.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius -
The best way to behave is to misbehave.
Mae West -
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
Katharine Hepburn -
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Billy Graham -
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong -
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
Josephine Baker -
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne -
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mahatma Gandhi -
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton -
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop -
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 -
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward -
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud -
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals -
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch -
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond -
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Duke Ellington -
If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, youâre going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesnât exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems.
Linda Howard -
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford -
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
Evelyn Waugh -
I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
John Keats -
Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.
Chris Crutcher -
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Giuseppe Garibaldi -
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo -
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being
Joanna Macy -
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Marc Chagall -
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.
Kevin Smith -
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
Aberjhani -
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Fulton J. Sheen -
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Lord Byron -
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx -
Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
Gabriela Mistral -
It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
Jason Mraz -
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken -
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya -
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen -
One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn't, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.
Nicole Krauss -
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein II -
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Eric Hoffer -
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall -
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
Robert Frost -
I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.
Jacques Mayol -
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland -
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
Sappho -
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 -
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
John Berger -
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard -
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.
David Steindl-Rast -
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman -
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust -
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud -
Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.
Angelina Jolie -
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
Billie Holiday -
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs -
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Anthony Trollope -
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall -
Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe
Gabriela Mistral -
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
Sydney J. Harris -
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Jean Kerr -
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw -
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Stendhal -
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran -
My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.
Kurt Cobain -
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
John Scott -
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.
Dan Barker -
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin -
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx -
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten -
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Maxim Gorky -
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan -
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.
Roland Allen -
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill -
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Rollo May -
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Mike Schmidt -
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.
Jeanette Winterson -
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo -
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay -
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche