Quotations and Poems

» “Teach only love for that is what you are.”
– A Course In Miracles

» “Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.”
– Diane Ackerman

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

» “Love is a great beautifier.”
– Louisa May Alcott

» “The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy –yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.”
– Nelson Algren

» “I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.”
– Woody Allen

» “In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
– Margaret Anderson

» “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

» “Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.”
– Barbara De Angelis

» “There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.”
– Jean Anouilh

» “Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas

» “Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
– Jean Anouilh

» “Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy — and that is life.”
– Jean Anouilh

» “Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.”
– Hannah Arendt

» “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle

» “Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.”
– Aristotle

» “In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.”
– Elizabeth Ashley

» “Love is the victim’s response to the rapist.”
– Ti-Grace Atkinson

» “We must love one another or die.”
– W. H. Auden

» “We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ”natural” attitude toward the ”other” is one of either indifference or hostility.”
– W. H. Auden

» “A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.”
– W. H. Auden

» “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.”
– St. Augustine

» “Love, and do what you like.”
– St. Augustine

» “Love is the beauty of the soul.”
– St. Augustine

» “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.”
– St. Augustine

» “What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”
– St. Augustine

» “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

» “Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.”
– Myrtle Auvil

» “Real love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach

» “Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.”
– Francis Bacon

» “For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
– Francis Bacon

» “The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”
– Pearl Bailey

» “What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”
– Pearl Bailey

» “The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”
– Honore De Balzac

» “Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.”
– Richard Bandler

» “The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”
– Amelia E. Barr

» “If you have it [Love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.”
– Sir James M. Barrie

» “If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.”
– Lynda Barry

» “To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.”
– Roland Barthes

» “Naturally, love’s the most distant possibility.”
– Georges Bataille

» “The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive.”
– Orlando A. Battista

» “It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.”
– Charles Baudelaire

» “To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.”
– Jean Baudrillard

» “If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.”
– Jean Baudrillard

» “Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.”
– Pierre De Beaumarchais

» “When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.”
– Ernest Becker

» “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “Love is the river of life in the world.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.”
– Aphra Behn

» “Honor the ocean of love.”
– George De Benneville

» “Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.”
– St. Bernard

» “Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.”
– St. Bernard

» “Love is the fulfilling of the Law.”
– Bible

» “Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]“
– Bible

» “This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]“
– Bible

» “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]“
– Bible

» “Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]“
– Bible

» “We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love… [1 John 3:14]“
– Bible

» “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]“
– Bible

» “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
– Bible

» “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]“
– Bible

» “And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]“
– Bible

» “And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]“
– Bible

» “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.”
– Bible

» “Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.”
– Bible

» “A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.”
– Josh Billings

» “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

» “Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.”
– Smiley Blanton

» “Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.”
– Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

» “The only victory over love is flight.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

» “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
– Jorge Luis Borges

» “A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.”
– Paul Bourget

» “When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”
– Elizabeth Bowen

» “If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.”
– Andre Breton

» “When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.”
– Robert Bridges

» “All the little emptiness of love!”
– Rupert Brooke

» “Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.”
– Rupert Brooke

» “Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.”
– Anita Brookner

» “Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”
– Dr. Joyce Brothers

» “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
– Charlie Brown

» “Love without attachment is light.”
– Norman O. Brown

» “To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.”
– Rita Mae Brown

» “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

» “Who so loves believes the impossible.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

» “Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
– Robert Browning

» “To be among people one loves, that’s sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.”
РJean De La Bruy̬re

» “We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
РJean De La Bruy̬re

» “When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”
– Martin Buber

» “We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.”
– Martin Buber

» “Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.”
– Buddha

» “The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
– Buddha

» “Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

» “No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.”
– Robert Burton

» “Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
– Leo Buscaglia

» “Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.”
– Leo Buscaglia

» “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
– Leo Buscaglia

» “Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
– Leo Buscaglia

» “Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.”
– Comte De Bussy-Rabutin

» “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”
– Samuel Butler

» “Who loves, raves.”
– Lord Byron

» “Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
– Lord Byron

» “Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
– Lord Byron

» “In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.”
– Italo Calvino

» “The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
– Albert Camus

» “Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.”
– Truman Capote

» “Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
– Amy Carmichael

» “Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.”
– Pat Carroll

» “It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.”
– Catullus

» “Love, Arthur, is a poodle’s chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.”
– Louis-Ferdinand Celine

» “Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

» “‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

» “Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.”
– David Chambless

» “True love is the parent of humility.”
– William Ellery Channing

» “Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
– Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

» “Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them… for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.”
– Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

» “Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.”
– Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

» “Love is blind.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer

» “Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.”
– Maurice Chevalier

» “The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word ”Love.” It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.”
– Lydia M. Child

» “Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George”
– Williams Childs

» “Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.”
– Mary Cholmondeley

» “You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.”
– Melanie Clark

» “Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “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

» “Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?”
– Confucius

» “To love a thing means wanting it to live.”
– Confucius

» “If there’s delight in love, ‘Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
– William Congreve

» “We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.”
– Cyril Connolly

» “Love is a tyrant sparing none.”
– Pierre Corneille

» “Love is a friendship set to music.”
– E. Joseph Cossman

» “Love – THE FEELING – is a fruit of love, the verb.”
– Stephen R. Covey

» “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
– Joan Crawford

» “Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.”
– Richard Crawshaw

» “I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
– Roy Croft

» “Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”
– Fr. Jerome Cummings

» “The way to a woman’s heart is through your wallet.”
– Frank Dane

» “If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.”
– Robertson Davies

» “Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone — but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.”
– Bette Davis

» “Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.”
– Alexis Delp

» “Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.”
– Yogi Desai

» “Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.”
– Thomas Robert Dewar

» “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
– Princess of Wales Diana

» “Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”
– Princess of Wales Diana

» “I adore him… I have never been so happy. I have real love.”
– Princess of Wales Diana

» “I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.”
– Princess of Wales Diana

» “My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.”
– Princess of Wales Diana

» “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
– Charles Dickens

» “I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.”
– Emily Dickinson

» “For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.”
– Baba Dioum

» “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.”
– Walt Disney

» “The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.”
– John Donne

» “Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
– John Donne

» “Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”
– John Donne

» “To fail to love is not to exist at all.”
– Mark Van Doren

» “Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.”
– Fyodor Dostoevski

» “Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.”
– Lord Drewar

» “You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
– Henry Drummond

» “To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”
– Henry Drummond

» “On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.”
– Henry Drummond

» “Love is love’s reward.”
– John Dryden

» “Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”
– John Dryden

» “Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
– John Dryden

» “We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.”
– Du Coeur

» “The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.”
– Maureen Duffy

» “Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love –to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.”
– Isadora Duncan

» “It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”
– Marguerite Duras

» “To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead –somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man –somewhere these, too, come together.”
– Marguerite Duras

» “It’s unthinkable not to love –you’d have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you’d have to be Philip Larkin.”
– Lawrence Durrell

» “The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”
– Lawrence Durrell

» “Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.”
– Andrea Dworkin

» “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
– Wayne Dyer

» “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
– Wayne Dyer

» “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Love is a better teacher than duty.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love”
– Albert Einstein

» “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
– George Eliot

» “For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
– George Eliot

» “A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.”
– George Eliot

» “Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.”
– T. S. Eliot

» “If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.”
– Ben Elton

» “He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “All mankind loves a lover.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”
– Marie E. Eschenbach

» “We always come back to our first love.”
– Etienne

» “He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
– Euripides

» “Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”
– Euripides

» “People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.”
– Irwin Federman

» “You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that’s the price of love.”
– Brian Ferry

» “I don’t want to live — I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald

» “The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard –it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.”
– Edward M. Forster

» “It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.”
– Emmet Fox

» “If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
– Emmet Fox

» “Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.”
– St. Francis of Assisi

» “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “One is very crazy when in love.”
– Sigmund Freud

» “We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.”
– Sigmund Freud

» “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
– Sigmund Freud

» “Love, while you are able to love.”
– A. Frieligrath

» “Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.”
– Erich Fromm

» “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
– Erich Fromm

» “Immature love says: ”I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: ”I need you because I love you.””
– Erich Fromm

» “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
– Robert Frost

» “Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.”
– Margaret Fuller

» “Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they’ve won us.”
– John Gay

» “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
– 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.”
– Kahlil Gibran

» “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

» “The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.”
– Kahlil Gibran

» “Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.”
– Louis Ginsberg

» “We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
– Nikki Giovanni

» “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

» “Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

» “The best way to know God is to love many things.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

» “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 and Jules De Goncourt

» “Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.”
– Rabbi J. Gordon

» “Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.”
– Baltasar Gracian

» “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

» “Love, love, love — all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
– Germaine Greer

» “Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.”
– Matt Groening

» “Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

» “Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted”
– Arlo Guthrie

» “Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God’s love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.”
– David B. Haight

» “Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.”
– Novalis Hardenberg

» “People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.”
– John Harrigan

» “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
– Louise L. Hay

» “The story of a love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
– Helen Hayes

» “The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of a love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
– Helen Hayes

» “The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.”
– William Hazlitt

» “One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well –but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?”
– Shirley Hazzard

» “Love and a cough cannot be hid.”
– George Hebert

» “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
– Robert Heinlein

» “Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “Only the really plain people know about love –the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.”
– Katharine Hepburn

» “Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.”
– Johann Gottfried Von Herder

» “Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn’t bite in it until it’s ripe.”
– Nick Hertl

» “Love is stronger than violence.”
– Hermann Hesse

» “Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.”
– Mangnu Hirschfield

» “Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.”
– Mangnu Hirschfield

» “Love is like pi — natural, irrational, and very important.”
– Lisa Hoffman

» “Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”
– Horace

» “If you love something let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.”
– Doug Horton

» “Love is a given, hatred is acquired.”
– Doug Horton

» “Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.”
– Doug Horton

» “Life in abundance comes only through great love.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]“
– Victor Hugo

» “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
– Victor Hugo

» “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, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”
– Zora Neale Hurston

» “Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God’s beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.”
– Bengali Hymn

» “Love is the only bow of life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll

» “I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll

» “Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
– Washington Irving

» “Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.”
– Gerald G. Jampolsky

» “Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

» “Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
– St. Jerome

» “Love’s like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.”
– Douglas William Jerrold

» “Love, you are eternal like springtime.”
– Juan Ramon Jiminez

» “In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.”
– St. John of the Cross

» “Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.”
– St. John of the Cross

» “Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
– Franklin P. Jones

» “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

» “Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.”
– James Joyce

» “Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never… never forget it.”
– Curtis Judalet

» “Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
– Carl Jung

» “Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”
– Alphonse Karr

» “Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength…. It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.”
РThomas ̣ Kempis

» “How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.”
РThomas ̣ Kempis

» “Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.”
РThomas ̣ Kempis

» “Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”
– Kahlil Kibran

» “At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

» “Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

» “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

» “The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

» “At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”
– Jean De La Bruyere

» “There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

» “We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

» “We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

» “What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

» “True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

» “If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

» “It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

» “Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”
– R. D. Laing

» “Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.”
– William Law

» “Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.”
– William Law

» “Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.”
– D. H. Lawrence

» “I shall always be a priest of love.”
– D. H. Lawrence

» “The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one’s wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great –quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.”
– D. H. Lawrence

» “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
– D. H. Lawrence

» “We love in another’s soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.”
– Irving Layton

» “Human Love… It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.”
– Christopher Leach

» “To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.”
– Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz

» “We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”
– John Lennon

» “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
– John Lennon

» “What’s terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don’t need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.”
– Doris Lessing

» “Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
– Michael Leunig

» “If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
– Stephen Levine

» “Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.”
– Stephen Levine

» “What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
– Sinclair Lewis

» “An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.”
– Harold Lokes

» “It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

» “It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

» “Love gives itself; it is not bought.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

» “A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.”
– Clare Boothe Luce

» “Love is inseparable from knowledge.”
– St. Macarius of Egypt

» “Great passions, my dear, don’t exist: they’re liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.”
– Anna Magnani

» “There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.”
– Francoise D’Aubegne Maintenon

» “Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.”
– Sir Thomas Malory

» “Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.”
– Og Mandino

» “Do all things with love.”
– Og Mandino

» “Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.”
– Og Mandino

» “If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.”
– Katherine Mansfield

» “A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”
– Michael Garrett Marino

» “Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
– Christopher Marlowe

» “There is no living with thee, nor without thee.”
– Marcus Valerius Martial

» “If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.”
– Harriet Martineau

» “Love is what happens to a man and woman who don’t know each other.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.”
– Guy De Maupassant

» “The love boat has crashed against the everyday.”
– Vladimir Mayakovsky

» “Love is all you need.”
– Paul Mccartney

» “It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.”
– George Mcdonald

» “Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
– Karl A. Menninger

» “One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.”
– Karl A. Menninger

» “The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.”
– George Meredith

» “Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay

» “If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday — so much is true.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay

» “Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.”
– John N. Mitchell

» “To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.”
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

» “Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.”
– Stan Mooneyham

» “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
– George Moore

» “Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.”
– Hannah More

» “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love”
– Mother Teresa

» “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.”
– Mother Teresa

» “I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”
– Mother Teresa

» “I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
– Mother Teresa

» “Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
– Mother Teresa

» “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

» “No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.”
– Iris Murdoch

» “Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”
– George Jean Nathan

» “Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.”
– Madame Neckar

» “I love those who do not know how to live for today.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.”
– Anais Nin

» “Love is a friendship caught on fire.”
– Northern Exposure

» “If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.”
– Ann Oakley

» “In love there are two things — bodies and words.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

» “To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.”
– Baroness Orczy

» “To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”
– George Orwell

» “I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.”
– Samuel Osgood

» “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”
– Mark Overby

» “Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love’s prerogatives — to give, and give, and give.”
– John Oxenham

» “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.”
– Dorothy Parker

» “When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “Love is the cheapest of religions.”
– Cesare Pavese

» “No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”
– Cesare Pavese

» “Speak low if you speak love.”
– Don Pedro

» “Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”
– Charles Peguy

» “Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it’s the triumphant twang of a bedspring.”
– Sydney Joseph Perelman

» “To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
– Francesco Petrarch

» “The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.”
– Peace Pilgrim

» “Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.”
– Peace Pilgrim

» “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato

» “Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
– Plato

» “Love is a serious mental disease.”
– Plato

» “Love expands.”
– Hugh Prather

» “Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.”
– Matthew Prior

» “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 comma bacillus.”
– Marcel Proust

» “Love laughs at locksmiths.”
– Proverb

» “Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.”
– Proverb

» “Love rules his kingdom without a sword.”
– Proverb

» “Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.”
– Proverb

» “He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”
– English Proverb

» “In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.”
– French Proverb

» “A heart that loves is always young.”
– Greek Proverb

» “It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.”
– Irish Proverb

» “He who is not impatient is not in love.”
– Italian Proverb

» “A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.”
– Japanese Proverb

» “Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.”
– Japanese Proverb

» “It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.”
– Jewish Proverb

» “Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.”
– Spanish Proverb

» “Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.”
– Ayn Rand

» “If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”
– Ronald Reagan

» “The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.”
– Theodor Reik

» “He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.”
– Theodor Reik

» “Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
– Jules Renard

» “Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.”
– Mary Roberts Rinehart

» “We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.”
– Adrienne Rich

» “Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.”
– Nick Richardson

» “A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.”
– Jean Paul Richter

» “This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

» “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

» “The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
– Tom Robbins

» “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”
– Theodore Roethke

» “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

» “Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.”
– Christina Rossetti

» “Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.”
– Dante Gabriel Rossetti

» “Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it’s something you can’t feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what’s all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?”
– Judith Rossner

» “Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

» “Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”
– Helen Rowland

» “Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.”
– Arthur Rubenstein

» “Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.”
– Jalal-Uddin Rumi

» “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”
– Jalal-Uddin Rumi

» “Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.”
– Francoise Sagan

» “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

» “Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

» “It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.”
– Edgar Saltus

» “There is only one happiness in life — to love and to be loved.”
– George Sand

» “I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one’s being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.”
– George Sand

» “The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”
– George Santayana

» “It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!”
– May Sarton

» “I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.”
– Virginia Satir

» “Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.”
– Jean Paul Satre

» “Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.”
– Paul Scherer

» “Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.”
– Olive Schreiner

» “Love… Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.”
– David Seabury

» “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
– Erich Segal

» “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
– Erich Segal

» “If you wish to be loved; Love!”
– Seneca

» “Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.”
– Seneca

» “I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.”
– Ivan Sergeevich

» “Love and stoplights can be cruel.”
– Sesame Street

» “Every man loves what he is good at.”
– Thomas Shadwell

» “Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
– William Shakespeare

» “But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit”
– William Shakespeare

» “Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
– William Shakespeare

» “They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.”
– William Shakespeare

» “To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.”
– William Shakespeare

» “When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]“
– William Shakespeare

» “Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.”
– Merle Shan

» “First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

» “Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

» “All fair in love and war.”
– Francis Edward Smedley

» “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
– Alexander Smith

» “To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.”
– Sydney Smith

» “Love is not a matter of counting the years — it’s making the years count.”
– Wolfman Jack Smith

» “I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.”
– Socrates

» “The hottest love has the coldest end.”
– Socrates

» “When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.”
– Socrates

» “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.”
– Sophocles

» “What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?”
– Robert Southey

» “Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.”
– Herbert Spencer

» “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
– Germaine De Stael

» “We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
– Germaine De Stael

» “Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”
– Konstantin Stanislavisky

» “Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.”
– David Steindl-Rast

» “True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.”
– Henri B. Stendhal

» “Love is stronger than justice.”
– Sting

» “What force is more potent than love?”
– Igor Stravinsky

» “Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?”
– Igor Stravinsky

» “To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.”
– Anna Strong

» “To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.”
– Karen Sunde

» “After the verb ”To Love”…”To Help” is the most beautiful verb in the world.”
– Bertha Von Suttner

» “As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
– Jonathan Swift

» “We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.”
– Thomas Szasz

» “We live in the world when we love it.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

» “For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.”
– Johannes Tauler

» “A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.”
– Frank Tebbets

» “I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

» “Love is the only gold.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

» “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

» “Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

» “It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found — not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.”
– St. Teresa of Avila

» “True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.”
– St. Theresa of Lisieux

» “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “There is no remedy for love than to love more.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.”
– James Thurber

» “Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
– James Thurber

» “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.”
– Count Leo Tolstoy

» “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
– Count Leo Tolstoy

» “If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”
– Lily Tomlin

» “The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.”
– Brian Tracy

» “To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.”
– Thomas Traherne

» “Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.”
– Ralph Waldo Trine

» “What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden — the passion for the revealed.”
– Marina Tsvetaeva

» “Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. “
– Rev. Dale Turner

» “For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth”
– Miguel De Unamuno

» “We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.”
– Source Unknown

» “True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.”
– Source Unknown

» “A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.”
– Source Unknown

» “As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.”
– Source Unknown

» “Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.”
– Source Unknown

» “What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.”
– Source Unknown

» “LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.”
– Source Unknown

» “Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.”
– Source Unknown

» “Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.”
– Source Unknown

» “No three words have greater power than I Love You.”
– Source Unknown

» “Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.”
– Source Unknown

» “The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.”
– Source Unknown

» “… a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others.”
– Source Unknown

» “Those who haven’t loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven’t even begun to live”
– Source Unknown

» “At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.”
– Source Unknown

» “It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.”
– Source Unknown

» “Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!”
– Source Unknown

» “Love is the poetry of the senses.”
– Source Unknown

» “Love is the bridge between two hearts.”
– Source Unknown

» “Love is like a poisonous mushroom — you don’t know if it is the real thing until it is too late”
– Source Unknown

» “There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.”
– Source Unknown

» “Live for love. Without love, you don’t live.”
– Source Unknown

» “What’s so remarkable about Love at first sight? It’s when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.”
– Source Unknown

» “Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?”
– Source Unknown

» “If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”
– Source Unknown

» “If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.”
– Source Unknown

» “If marriage is your object, you’d better start loving your subject.”
– Source Unknown

» “If love is shelter, I’m going to walk in the rain.”
– Source Unknown

» “I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.”
– Source Unknown

» “But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.”
– Source Unknown

» “An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.”
– John Updike

» “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
– Peter Ustinov

» “But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

» “Love’s pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.”
– A Haiku Verse

» “I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.”
– Sid Vicious

» “We were two and had but one heart between us.”
РFran̤ois de Montcorbier Villon

» “Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.”
– Judith Viorst

» “Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.”
– Virgil

» “Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
– Voltaire

» “If somebody says, ”I love you,” to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ”I love you, too. ””
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

» “I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
– Alice Walker

» “Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”
– Andy Warhol

» “A man in love is like a clipped coupon — it’s time to cash in.”
– Mae West

» “I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”
– Mae West

» “It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood –no more –to man, and love to a woman is life or death.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

» “My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away”
– Kim Wilde

» “Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “Love is not only something you feel. It’s something you do.”
– David Wilkerson

» “Oh, Jacques, we’re used to each other, we’re a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we’ve grown used to each other. That’s what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.”
– Tennessee Williams

» “It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.”
– William Carlos Williams

» “I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us”
– Marianne Williamson

» “Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”
– Marianne Williamson

» “My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry”
– Bruce Willis

» “Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”
– Sandy Wilson

» “The object of love is to serve, not to win.”
– Woodrow Wilson

» “No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson

» “However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.”
– Jeanette Winterson

» “For love… has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together”
– Virginia Woolf

» “A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”
– Woodrow Wyatt

» “People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.”
– Douglas Yates

» “A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.”
– William Butler Yeats

» “Love the giver more than the gift.”
– Brigham Young

» “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.”
– Henny Youngman

» “When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.”
– Gary Zukav