LOVE QUOTES

 LOVE QUOTES

 collections of 200 LOVE QUOTES

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 is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer

To err is human, to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope

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

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. Alphonse Karr

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. ‘Deserves’ is not the point. And ‘owes’ is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is – in the right hands, everything that you give, you get. Amy Bloom

I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them. Anais Nin

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

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton

Love is boundary-less. Angel Haze

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I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. Angelita Lim

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough. Ann Landers

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

Him that I love, I wish to be free – even from me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. Anthony Trollope

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

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. Audre Lorde

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Augustine of Hippo

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. Barbara De Angelis

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

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Barbara De Angelis

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

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. Barbara De Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than if hatred had not preceded it. Baruch Spinoza

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Ben Hecht

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. Brené Brown

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Brené Brown

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

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her! Charles Dickens

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There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. Chris Rock

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

A source of trouble is our unruly minds. We can counter that by developing a warm heart. We need to effect an inner transformation, to understand that love and affection are a real source of joy. Dalai Lama

Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas. Dale Evans

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable. David Augsburger

We need not think alike to love alike. David Ferenc

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

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. Diane Arbus

You call it madness, but I call it love. Don Byas

The love we give away is the only love we keep. Elbert Hubbard

Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one can not be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt

You like to respect and admire someone whom you love, but actually, you love even more the people who require understanding and who make mistakes and have to grow with their mistakes. Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel

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Whoso loves, believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves. Elizabeth Gilbert

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. Ellen Goodman

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the Exponent of earth. Emily Dickinson

He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides

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

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form. Franz Kafka

I know of no greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, without end. Franz Kafka

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. Gary Zukav

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. George Santayana

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. Hafiz of Persia

We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones. Hafiz of Persia

When all your desires are distilled, you will cast just two votes: To love more, and be happy. Hafiz of Persia

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? Helen Keller

I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. Helen Keller

Light! Give me light!’ was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. Helen Keller

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. Henry David Thoreau

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau

 LOVE QUOTES

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a 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 else. Hermann Hesse

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each others dreams, we can be together all the time. Hobbes

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Washington Thurman

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. Isha McKenzie-Mavinga

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. Iyanla Vanzant

In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing. Jack Kornfield

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. James Baldwin

Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. James Thurber

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. Jane Austen

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. Jane Austen

To love is to burn, to be on fire. Jane Austen

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Jessamyn West

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From where we are there is always a path toward love. What takes discipline is continually choosing that path. Jesse Pender

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

To be loved for what one is, 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

Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you. My creed is love and you are its only tenet. John Keats

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

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other. Judy Collins

Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Karl Menninger

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn

Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Katherine Anne Porter

She remembered who she was and the game changed. Lalah Deliah

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu

I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. Leo Christopher

There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless. Leo Christopher

Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important. Lisa Hoffman

There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. Lorraine Hansberry

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love.’ It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. Lydia Maria Child

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. Madame de Stael

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious. Marcel Proust

In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. Margaret Guenther

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Marge Piercy

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Marianne Williamson

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am 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

To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains, or agreements. Love exists in the moment-to-moment flux of life. Marion Woodman

And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears. Mark Anthony

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. Martin Luther King Jr

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 yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world. Mary Oliver

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Oliver

 LOVE QUOTES

Close your eyes, take your time and listen. What does your heart says? Maxime Lagace

Create something that only you can do. Maxime Lagace

Have you ever been so focused that you forgot time? That’s what you should do more of. Maxime Lagace

If you can’t stop thinking about it, it’s a good thing. It means you’re alive. Maxime Lagace

If you care enough, you will find a way. Maxime Lagace

If you risk love, you risk sadness and frustration. But who says life was all about having fun all the time? Maxime Lagace

If you truly love your work, you’ll do whatever it takes to master it. If you master it, you’ll change the world. Maxime Lagace

It can take a long time to know yourself, your fears and your desires, but once you’ll do, magic will happen. Maxime Lagace

Knowing, understanding and accepting yourself is your first step to everything you want in life. Maxime Lagace

Learn the lesson and move on. Holding a grudge is like playing with fire: you’ll burn yourself eventually. Maxime Lagace

Perhaps you’ll fail. Perhaps it will hurt. Perhaps you’ll be depressed. But it will be worth it. Maxime Lagace

Saying no to others sometimes means saying yes to yourself. Maxime Lagace

Some call it passion, motivation, madness, foolishness, intuition, inspiration. Others don’t care at all and just do it because of that small voice inside. Maxime Lagace

The more you create, the more you’re alive, the happier you are. Maxime Lagace

Through you, I realised that life gave me everything. Maxime Lagace

To love is risky. Not to love is foolish. Maxime Lagace

True friendships ask for nothing in return that’s why I call them the perfect love. Maxime Lagace

You are the only one in the world with those traits and those experiences. Accept them totally because that weirdness is what the world actually need. Maxime Lagace

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat. Molly Haskell

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa

Work without love is slavery. Mother Teresa

If you don’t love yourself who will? Naval Ravikant

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. Neil Gaiman

Eliminate the need to be liked. Replace it with the intention to be of service, whether to others, something you believe in, or your highest self. Neil Strauss

Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed love was about finding the right person. In reality, love is about becoming the right person. Don’t look for the person you want to spend your life with. Become the person you want to spend your life with. Neil Strauss

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Nelson Mandela

We love because it’s the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever. Noah from The Notebook

Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? Oscar Hammerstein, II

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. Oscar Wilde

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso

Self-care is never a selfish act — it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Parker Palmer

All you need is love. Paul McCartney

The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. Pele

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

Givers need to set limits because takers rarely do. Rachel Wolchin

We must be our own before we can be another’s. Ralph Waldo Emerson

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning. Ray Romano

True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach

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Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in. Richard Jeni

When you’re in love, it’s the most glorious two-and-a-half days of your life. Richard Lewis

Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. Robert Frost

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert Heinlein

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. Robin Morgan

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story – I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere – they’re in each other all along. Rumi

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. Saint Francis de Sales

Love isn’t finding a perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other. Sean (Good Will Hunting)

Love is the product of how you respond … Love is showing your partner they’re safe, you’ll catch them if they fall, and you’ll drop everything if they need you. Love is unconditional. Love doesn’t keep score. Shane Parrish

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn’t sentimental. It doesn’t have to be pretty, yet it doesn’t deny pain. Sharon Salzberg

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Simone Weil

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Sir Arthur Pinero

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. Socrates

The nice thing about self-love is that it’s hardly ever unrequited. Solomon Short

This is my beloved and this is my friend. Song of Solomon

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. Steve Maraboli

We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small. Tara Brach

I wish I had done everything on Earth with you. The Great Gatsby

Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person. Thich Nhat Hanh

To love is, first of all, to accept ourselves as we actually are. Thich Nhat Hanh

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. Thomas Merton

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you. Tom Freston

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. Tom Head

He wants to put his story next to hers. Toni Morrison (Beloved)

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo

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

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent van Gogh

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

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Willa Cather

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 all, trust a few. William Shakespeare

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself. William Sloane Coffin

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. William Wordsworth

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

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