“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” – Seneca
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” – Lao Tzu
“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.” – Julia Roberts
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
“We are most alive when we're in love.” – John Updike
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The more one judges, the less one loves.” – Honore de Balzac
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
“This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda
“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” – Lord Byron
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” – Blaise Pascal
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey
.” – Victor Hugo
“All you need is love
.” – Paul McCartney
“True love stories never have endings
.” – Richard Bach
“Love is shown more in deeds than in words
.” – Saint Ignatius
“Love is not a volunteer thing
.” – Samuel Richardson
“Love is friendship on fire
.” – Susan Sontag
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight
.” – Unknown
“Your smile is the sunshine that makes flowers blossom
.” – Unknown
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement
.” – Unknown
“Every moment spent with you is like a beautiful dream come true
.” – Unknown
“I might not be able to express my love in words because you take my breath away
.” – Unknown
“Your beauty, smile, and laugh are what brought us together
.” – Unknown
“Your loving heart is what makes me want to spend my life with you
.” – Unknown
“I loved you yesterday, I love you still, I always have
.” – Unknown
“You are the queen of my heart. Your wish is my command and always will behttp:/
.” – Unknown
“You need not worry about me, I am already in your heart
.” – Unknown
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
.” – Robert Frost
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness
.” – Julia Roberts
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love
.” – Carl Sagan
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another
.” – Jesus Christ
“We accept the love we think we deserve
.” – Stephen Chbosky
“You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life
.” – Bob Marley
“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
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all
.” – St. Augustine
“The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence
.” – Dalai Lama
“Where there is love there is life
.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom
.” – Charles Dickens
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return
.” – Madonna
”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
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other
.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place
.” – Zora Neale Hurston
“The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are
.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I believe there are some things in life you can’t deny or rationalize, and [love] is one of them
.” – Cate Blanchett
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down
.”– Oprah Winfrey
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
.” – Buddha
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams
.” – Dr. Seuss
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit
.” – Khalil Gibran
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within
.” – James Baldwin
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once
.” – John Green
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will
.” – Elaine Davis
“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
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out
.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive
.” – Unknown
“I need you like a heart needs a beat
.” – Unknown
“When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most
.” – Unknown
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long
.” – Pablo Neruda
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen
.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous
.” – Ingrid Bergman
“You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company
.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you
.'” – Erich Fromm
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage
.” – Lao Tzu
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love
.” – Sophocles
“If I know what love is, it is because of you
.” – Hermann Hesse
”I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything
.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow
.” – Leo Christopher
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you
.” – A. A. Milne
“A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him
.” – Brendan Francis
”I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul
.” – Pablo Neruda
”Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood
.” – Oscar Wilde
“You make me want to be a better man
.” – Melvin Udall
“Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive
.” – Unknown
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world
.” – Lucille Ball
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky
.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart
.” – Helen Keller
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead
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– Oscar Wilde
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love
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– Henry Miller
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight
.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself
.” – Andre Breton
“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all
.” – Ernest Hemingway
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you
.” – Elbert Hubbard
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren't more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they'll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be
.” – Kristen Neff
“Love is a better teacher than duty
.” – Albert Einstein
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment
.” – Sarah Dessen
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“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
“He is not a lover who does not love forever
.” – Euripides
“To love is to burn, to be on fire
.” – Jane Austen
“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
“In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.” – Jack Kornfield
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” – Paulo Coelho
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal
“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
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” – Pablo Neruda
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” – Ben Hecht
“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
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo
”My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” – André Breton
”A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut
”Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn
”Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.” – James Thurber
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” – Sophocles
“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
“We must be our own before we can be another’s.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
“Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” – Tom Freston
“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
“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
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.” – Judy Collins
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” – William Shakespeare
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.” – Natalie Cole
“I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings. ” – Open-365
“The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.” – Dalai Lama
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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 art of love is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
“Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one.” – Unknown
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
“Love is what you've been through with somebody.” – James Thurber
“The best proof of love is trust.” – Joyce Brothers
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” – Honore de Balzac
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” – Kim McMillen
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” – Josh Billings
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
“You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas
“We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
“A life lived in love will never be dull.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” – Tom Wolfe
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.” – Houssaye
“Trust your intuition and be guided by love.” – Charles Eisenstein
“That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.” – Joan Baez
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” – Benjamin Franklin
“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” – Harry Palmer
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” – Euripides
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” – Paulo Coelho
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews
“Fortune and love favor the brave.” – Ovid
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” – Carl Sagan
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” – Charles Schulz
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. – Leo Christopher
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.” – Wayne Dyer
“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.” – Anaïs Nin
“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” – William W. Purkey
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” – Jeanne Moreau
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” – Marge Piercy
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.” – William Arthur Ward
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis
“We need not think alike to love alike.” – Francis David
“Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.” – Moliere
“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.” – Felix Adler
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
”I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” – Madame de Stael
“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.” – George Jean Nathan
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
“When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” – Dalai Lama