Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
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
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
- Loretta Young
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Dalai Lama
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
- Barbara De Angelis
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
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
- Buddha
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
- Carl Sagan
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Stendhal
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
- Lucille Ball
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
- Torquato Tasso
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
- David Wilkerson
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
- Ferdinand Foch
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
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
- Cyril Connolly
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
- Bryan Procter
Love is blind.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
- Max Muller
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
- Karl A. Menninger
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
- Virginia Satir
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
- Bernard Meltzer
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
- Erich Fromm
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
- Thomas a Kempis
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
- Dwight L. Moody
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
- John Galsworthy
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
- Samuel Beckett
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 transformed.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
- e. e. cummings
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
- Gilbert Parker
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
- Marcel Proust
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
- Thomas Shadwell
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Thomas Fuller
Fortune and love favor the brave.
- Ovid
Don't forget to love yourself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
- Jim Morrison
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
- Princess Diana
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 means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Theodor W. Adorno
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- George Eliot
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
- Charles Morgan
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
- Eric Hoffer
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Charles Dickens
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
- Francois Rabelais
People protect what they love.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
- Blaise Pascal
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
- Robert Fulghum
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
- Elbert Hubbard
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
- Albert Ellis
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
- Paulo Coelho
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
- Javan
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- Pablo Picasso
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
- Carlos Santana
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
- Petrarch
We loved with a love that was more than love.
- Edgar Allan Poe
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
- Brendan Behan
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
- Arthur Rimbaud
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
- Alexander Smith
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
- Emily Bronte