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These love quotes are words from Famous people like Mother Teresa, William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, Leo Buscaglia, Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Kahlil Gibran and many more. I will continue to add love quotes to this list of collection, so do come back and check out this site regularly. If you have any love quotes which you would like to add on to this site to share with people, do feel free to drop me an email. I will go through the love quote and add it in accordingly. All these love quotes are available to you for use or feel free to share with your friends this site.

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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

-- Mother Teresa

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

-- Mother Teresa

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

-- Mother Teresa

It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.

-- Mother Teresa

Love is repaid by love alone!

-- 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

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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

-- Mother Teresa

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

-- Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

-- Mother Teresa

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other--it doesn’t matter who it is-- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

-- Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

-- Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

-- Mother Teresa

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

-- Mother Teresa

If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.

-- Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

-- Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

-- Mother Teresa

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

-- Abraham Lincoln

The laws of gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

-- Albert Einstein

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

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.

-- Albert Einstein

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

-- American President George W. Bush

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

-- William Shakespeare

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

-- William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

-- William Shakespeare

If thou remember not the slightest folly into which loves hast made thee run, though hast not loved.

-- William Shakespeare

But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit; for if they could, Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformed to a boy.

-- William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.

-- William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

-- William Shakespeare

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support...

-- William Shakespeare

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

-- William Shakespeare

 

The courses of true love never did run smooth.

-- William Shakespeare

So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, lives no life.

-- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eyes I eyed, such seems your beauty still.

-- William Shakespeare

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

-- -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

-- Oscar Wilde

Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

-- Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

-- Oscar Wilde

Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.

-- Oscar Wilde

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

-- Oscar Wilde

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

-- Elbert Hubbard


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Life in abundance comes only through great love.

-- Elbert Hubbard

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

-- Marianne Williamson

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

-- Norman Maclean

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.

-- Winnie the Pooh

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

-- Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

-- Helen Keller

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

-- Helen Keller

Sweet are the words of Love, sweeter his thoughts: Sweetest of all what Love nor says nor thinks.

-- Richard Garnett

My love, you know you are my best friend. You know that I’d do anything for you And my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true.

-- Sarah McLachlan

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

-- Lao Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

-- Lao Tzu

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life, that word is Love.

-- Socrates

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

-- Aristotle

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

-- Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love.

-- Charlie Brown

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

-- Buddha

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

-- Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

-- Buddha

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

-- Saint Augustine

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

-- Saint Augustine

Love is not just looking at each other; it's looking in the same direction.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


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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 withering, of tarnishing.

-- Anais Nin

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

-- Francois Mauriac

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

-- Alexandre Dumas

Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.

-- Julie Marie

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

-- Vipin Sharma

True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

- Jason Jordan

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

-- Confucius

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

-- W. H. Auden

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

-- Henry Van Dyke

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

-- Leo Buscaglia

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

-- Leo Buscaglia

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

-- Leo Buscaglia

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.

-- Leo Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

-- Leo Buscaglia

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

-- Leo Buscaglia

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

-- Leo Buscaglia

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

-- Leo Buscaglia

True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending.

-- K Knight

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking for each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

-- Amy Bloom

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

-- Amy Bloom

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

-- Franklin P. Jones

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

-- Alexander Smith

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

-- Marcel Proust

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

-- Marcel Proust

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

-- Marcel Proust

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 as insignificant as the comma bacillus.

-- Marcel Prous

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

-- Victor Hugo

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

-- Victor Hugo


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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

-- Victor Hugo

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

-- Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

-- Victor Hugo

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

-- Jeanne Moreau

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

-- Brandan Behan

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

-- Janos Arnay

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

-- Nora Roberts

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

-- Benjamin Franklin

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

-- Benjamin Franklin

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.

-- Benjamin Franklin

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

-- Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

-- Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

-- Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

-- Charles Dickens

It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.

-- Andre Gide

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.

-- Andre Gide

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

-- Sir Hugh Walpoe

Never let a problem to be solved becomes more important than a person to be loved.

-- Barbara Johnson

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

-- Mae West

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

-- Mae West

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

-- G.W. Von Leibnitz

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

-- Robert Burton

Love isn't just for the smart of talented, but for all the animals God created.

-- Sarah Wonders

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

-- Albert Camus

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

-- Carl Jung

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

-- Lucille Ball

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

-- Andre Maurois

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

-- Mark Twain

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

-- Mark Twain

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

-- Mark Twain

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

-- Mark Twain

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

-- Andrew Sullivan

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

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.

-- D.H. Lawrence

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

-- C.S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

-- C.S. Lewis

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

-- George Bernard Shaw

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

-- George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

-- George Bernard Shaw

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

-- 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 so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

-- George Washington

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

-- Theodore M Hesburgh

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The sound of a kiss is not as loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Love is needing to be loved.

-- John Lennon

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

-- John Lennon

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

-- David Grayson

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

-- James Baldwin

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

-- James Baldwin

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

-- James Baldwin

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

-- Kahlil Gibran

And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.

-- Kahlil Gibran

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

-- Kahlil Gibran

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

-- Anthony Robbins

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

-- Donald Laird

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

-- Hans Nouwens

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

-- Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

-- Bertrand Russell

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

-- Joseph Conrad

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.’

-- Erich Fromm

To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.

-- Erich Fromm

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

-- Erich Fromm

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

-- Blaise Pascal

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

-- J. Escriva

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

-- Josh Billings

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

-- G. K. Chesterton

Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.

-- G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

-- G. K. Chesterton

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

-- H L Mencken

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

-- Robert Lee Frost

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

-- Sophocles

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

-- Lily Tomlin

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 Aelius Aurelius

We need not think alike to love alike.

-- Francis David

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

-- Alicia Barnhart

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; yet the life of a whole life die when love is done.

-- Francis William Bourdillon

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

-- Christopher Marlowe

Make me immortal with a kiss.

-- Christopher Marlowe

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

-- Christopher Marlowe

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

-- William Temple

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

-- George Burns

All's fair in love and war.

-- Francis Edwards

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

-- Judy Garland

Who so loves believes the impossible.

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The giving of love is an education in itself.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.

-- Crystal Middlemas

Love is like a mustard seed; planted by God and watered by men.

-- Muda Saint Michael

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

-- George Sand

Love's always a little lonely in the beginning.

-- Sir Douglas

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

-- Dr. John Gray

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

-- David Levesque

Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.

-- Stephen Packer

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

-- Jules Renard

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

-- Elizabeth Bowen

Love is energy of life.

-- Robert Browning

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

-- Robert Browning

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.

-- Robert Browning

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

-- Brian Andres

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

-- Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.

-- Daniel Monroe Tuttle

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign’s ruination.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

-- Will Moss

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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Where there is love there is life.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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

-- Peter Ustinov

The first duty of love -- is to listen.

-- Paul Tillich

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

-- Paul Tillich

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

-- O. A. Battista

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

-- Woody Allen

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 existence and it's only end.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

-- Bill Cosby

I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place … and can return no more.

-- John Clare

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.

-- Britney Spears

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

-- Elizabeth Cameron

Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.

-- Wilhelm Stekel

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

-- Bill Wilson

Love isn’t blind; it just only sees what matters.

-- William Curry

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

-- Dorothy Parker

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

-- Christopher Morley

Love is something you can’t describe like the look of a rose, the smell of the rain, or the feeling of forever.

-- Kristen Kappel

Love is when you look into someone’s eyes, and see everything you need.

-- Kristen Kappel

Love is not needing a snooze button on your alarm clock because when it goes off the first time in the morning the thoughts of your loved one make it impossible to fall back asleep.

-- Natasha Harris

The best things in life can never be kept; they must be given away. A Smile, a Kiss, and Love.

-- Tony Farrar

Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.

-- Doc Childre

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

-- T.S. Eliot

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

-- Igor Stravinsky

Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.

-- J. Ghetto

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.

-- Unforgettable with Love by Natalie Cole

Love never claims it ever gives.

-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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...A simple I love you means more than money...

-- Frank Sinatra

Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love become as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

-- Bruce Lee

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

-- Herman Hesse

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

-- Honore de Balzac

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

-- Thomas Fuller

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

-- Ivan Panin

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

-- Josiah G. Holland

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

-- Lope de Vega

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

-- Robert Sexton

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it...you and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

-- George Moore

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

-- Mignon McLaughlin

... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

-- Gretchen Kemp

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

-- John Keats

I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.

-- Roy Croft

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes...

-- Elizabeth Barret Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach...

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

-- David Viscott

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

-- William M. Thackeray

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

-- Thomas Merton

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

-- Gerald Jampolsky

I only want to love once, but I want to love everybody for the rest of my life.

-- Lauren Ford