Love Quotes
Sumi Verma Presents
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
May no gift be too small to give,
nor too simple to receive,
which is wrapped in thoughtfulness
and tied with love.
~ L.O. Baird
We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch
To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~ Victor Hugo
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
~ Lord Byron
We are all born for love...
it is the principle existence and it's only end.
~ Disraeli
It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
~ William Thackeray
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place
in ourselves for those who love us.
~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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
Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty,
to find the best in others, to give one's self...
this is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:
our love to others, and others' love to us.
~ Thomas Trahern
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
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
~ Steve Winwood
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
~ Cathy Carlyle
turning everything topsy-turvy.
~ Marguerite De Valois
All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time:
effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
~ Germaine De Stael
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
~ Germaine De Stael
The loving are the daring.
~ Bayard Taylor
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
~ Mother Teresa
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
~ William Wordsworth
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
~ Robert Browning
Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
~ UB40
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion
that each include the other,
each is enriched by the other.
~ Felix Adler
Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
In heaven, an angel is nobody in particular. -- George Bernard Shaw contributed by Big Thrill
Please all, and you will please none.
Aesop
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Anonymous
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Anonymous
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that, but the really great make you become great.
Twain, Mark
Aeschylus
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are
Nin, Anais
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Aesop
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Loves possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.--kahlil gibran
contributed by pippa taylor
Hell is the only place outside of heaven where we can be safe from the dangers of love. --C. S. Lewis
Contributed by Chip Lewis
Hate is love looking for itself everyplace but where love is.---Jane Roberts
contributed by Brad Bucklin
Oh, what a recreation it is to be in love! It sets the heart aching so delicately, there's no taking a wink of sleep for the pleasure of the pain. George Coleman the Younger
contributed by Katy
Is not absence death to those who love?--Alexander Pope
Contributed by Carol
"You cannot really love someone who never makes you laugh."----unknown contributed by Erin Scofield
If a thing loves, it is infinite ---William BlakeContributed by Megan Glomb
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.Just walk beside me and be my friend forever--Anonymous
Contributed by Jessie Ryan
When the soul lies down in the grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense. --rumi
Contributed by megan glomb
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
unknown ---Contributed by Trish Markowsky
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---- contributed by Kathleen
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others--unknown ---contributed by Lidia
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. ---Donna Roberts
contributed by Jenifer
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. --- Kahlil Gibran
contributed by J. McMurray, Grace and Peace
The greatest good you can do for another Is not just to share your riches. But to reveal to him/her his/her own.---Benjamin Disraeli
contributed by Dennis Armstrong
"A friendship is one soul living in two bodies." --unknown
contributed by E. Porter
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Lao Tzu
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ROMANTICS:
The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
Juliet to Romeo, Wm. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Take my breath away.
Marc Anthony to Cleopatra, Wm. Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra
Make me immortal with a kiss.
Dr. Faustus to Helen of Troy, Marlowe's Dr.Faustus
She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies
Lord Byron,Hebrew Melodies
Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.
Lord Byron, Stanzas for Music
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning Sonnets from the Portugese
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning Sonnets from the Portugese
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
Robert Burns, A Fond Kiss
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning to Elizabeth BarrettBrowning
I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
The Bible, The Song of Solomon
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabelle Lee
Come lie with me and be my love and we will some new pleasures
John Donne
Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all the other pleasures are.
John Dryden, English poet
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.
F. W. Bourdillon, Light
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
Treasure the love you receive above all.
It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
~ Og Mandino
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word,
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