Thoughts of Love Quotes Or I Love You Quotes in English

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

Love is something eternal, the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it is a good lamp, but now it is shedding light, too, and that is its real function.

- Vincent van Gogh

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.

- Cynthia Heimel

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 Quotation

"Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

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

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Robert Browning Download or Share

Love is so much better when you are not married.

- A Quotation From Maria Callas Download or Share

Pains of love be sweeter far, than all other pleasures are.

- John Dryden Download or Share

Love still needs expression between those who share it.

- Leo Buscaglia Download or Share

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.

- Andrew the Apostle Download or Share

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons.

Kahlil Gibran Download or Share

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

- Eva Gabor Download or Share

Love all, trust a few.  Do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare Download or Share

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

- Benjamin Franklin Download or Share

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

- Kahlil Gibran Download or Share

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download or Share

The best proof of love is trust.

- Joyce Brothers Download or Share

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry Download or Share

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

- M. Scott Peck Download or Share

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

- Norman O. Brown Download or Share

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

- National Lampoon Download or Share

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost Download or Share

A man is already halfway in love with a woman who listens to him.

- Brendan Francis Download or Share

We love the things we love for what they are.

- Robert Lee Frost Download or Share

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

- John Dryden Download or Share

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison Download or Share

But love’s a malady without a cure.

- John Dryden Download or Share

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."

- Erich Fromm

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

- Victor Hugo

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Him by W. Somerset Maugham

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Love is a friendship set to music.

-  Joseph Campbell

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Seneca

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

- Albert Ellis

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

We are most alive when we're in love.

- John Updike

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

- Libbie Fudim

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

- Euripides

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

- George Crabbe

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

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

- Khalil Gibran

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

- Pablo Neruda

Love is a better teacher than duty.

- Albert Einstein

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

- James Thurber

I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.

- Robert Herrick

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

- George Gordon, Lord Byron

Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.

- Richard Garnett

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

- Erich Fromm

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

- Charles William Gordon

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

- Houssaye

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.

- Jim Cole

There is not greater happiness in life today than to love and be loved.

- George Sand

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

- Joseph Addison

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

- H.L. Mencken

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults.

- Benjamin Franklin

But love is many things, none of them logical.

- William Goldman

There is always some madness in love.  But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

-William Shakespeare

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

- Leo Christopher

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

- Iris Murdoch

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

- Eduardo Galeano

If people are allowed to love life, then they should also be allowed to hate it.

- Brian Fox

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Confucius

Respect is love in plain clothes.

- Frankie Byrne

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule.

- Siddhartha Guatama Buddh

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Lee Frost

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

After observing the loved and the unloved, we found the loved ones rarely tried to manipulate others.

- W. W. Broadbent

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

- Michael Masser and Linda Creed

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

- Samuel Butler

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

- Christian Nestell Bove

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Henry Fielding

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

- John Sheffield

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity.  You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around.  Is that what being in love is like?

- Josh Brand and John Falsey

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

- Jane Austen

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade.  Each wins all.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.  To just give.  That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Love is not enough.  It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure.  It is much too pliable, too yielding.

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- by Blaise Pascal

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

- Marsilio Ficino

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

- Wayne Dyer

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

- Real Live Preacher

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

- Rita Rudner

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

- Sophocles

If you have respect and consideration for one another, you’ll make it.

- Mary Durso

Some relationships start with fights… But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

-  Oscar Wilde

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

- Blaise Pascal

It's an extra dividend when you like the girl you’re in love with.

- Clark Gable

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

- Leo Buscaglia

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

- William Penn

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

- Maya Angelou

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

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Helen Keller

Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

- Richard Friedman

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

- Willa Sibert Cather

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

- Henry Miller

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

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner Download or Share

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne Download or Share

Where there is love there is life.

-  Mahatma Gandhi Download or Share

Only love is stronger than gravity.

- John Gregory

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Maya Angelou Download or Share

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch Download or Share

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

- by Karen Sunde Download or Share

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh Download or Share

The first duty of love is to listen.

- by Paul Tillich Download or Share

The person who has earned love the least needs it the most.

F. Enzio Busche Download or Share

Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.

Marvin J. Ashton

Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.

Louise Beal Download or Share

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence.

Lord Byron Download or Share

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

Sean Connery Download or Share

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

- Miguel de Cervantes Download or Share

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman Download or Share

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

- William Blake Download or Share

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon Download or Share

The best proof of love is trust.

- Dr. Joyce Brothers Download or Share

Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bove Download or Share

Love, such as in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies.

- Sabastien Chamfort Download or Share

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

William Blake Download or Share

The secret of art is love.

- Antoine Bourdelle Download or Share

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton Download or Share

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh Download or Share

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

- Elizabeth Ashley Download or Share

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Aphra Behn Download or Share

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

- Josh Billings Download or Share

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Jnos Arany Download or Share

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

Robert Burns Download or Share *

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Henry Ward Beecher Download or Share

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings Download or Share

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Francis Bacon Download or Share

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

Brendan Behan Download or Share

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry Download or Share

True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.

Leanna L. Bartram Download or Share

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made anither!

Robert Burns Download or Share

I used to think that being nice to people and feeling nice was loving people. Now I know it isn't. Love is the most immense unselfishness and it is so big I've never touched it.

Florence Allshom Download or Share

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Philip James Bailey Download or Share

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Elizabeth Ashley Download or Share

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Jean Anouilh Download or Share

To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose is the next best thing.

Maximillian Arturo Download or Share

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

French Proverb Download or Share

What force is more potent than love.

Igor Stravinsky Download or Share

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

Russian Proverb Download or Share

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson Download or Share

To understand your parents, love you must raise children yourself.

- Chinese Proverb Download or Share

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

Kahlil Gibran Download or Share

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

Margaret C. Anderson Download or Share

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton Download or Share

Love of country is like love of woman, he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler Download or Share

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Download or Share

Love is a great beautifier.

- Louisa May Alcott Download or Share

I could never love where I could not respect.

Charlotte Elizabeth Aiss Download or Share

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

- David Viscott

I love you” begins by I, but it ends up by you.

- Charles de Leusse

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

- John Greenleaf Whittier Download or Share

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

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

- James Baldwin Download or Share

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts Download or Share

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

- Anne-Sophie Swetchine Download or Share

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.

T. Tolis

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state.  Being in love shows a person who he should be.

- Anton Chekhov

And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

- Joseph Addison Download or Share

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

- Heart Touching Love Quotes by Bertrand Russell

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

- Charles Schulz

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Download or Share

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

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

Carl Jung

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides Download or Share

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there’s really nothing to lose.

- Jewel Download or Share

Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

- Nicholas Sparks Download or Share

No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife.

Robert Burton

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

- Ed Howe

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Joan Crawford

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

- Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

- Jim Fox *

Love at the lips was touch, As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

- Robert Lee Frost

For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

- Rosemonde Gerard

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

- Gene Hill

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

- Kahlil Gibran

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.

- Wysten Hugh Auden

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Andrew Schneider

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.

- Dorothy Parker

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

- Ice T

Love is everything it's cracked up to be …. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, being brave for, risking everything for.

- by Erica Jong *

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them.  Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

- Hugh Elliott

The ability to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

Heywood Campbell Broun

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

- Viktor Frankl

Respect for sovereignty, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Love Thought in English by Richard David Bach

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

- Barbara Cartland

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

- Confucius

There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die.

- Thomas Ford

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all.

- Samuel Butler

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish.

- Irish Blessing

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

- Vincent van Gogh

The story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

- Helen Hayes

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

- Zora Neale Hurston

'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

- J. Jacques

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J.K. Rowling

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

- Richard L. Evans

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love.

- Helen Hayes

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

- Kahlil Gibran

For two people to please one another they must be very nearly alike, so that they may understand each other, and slightly different, so that they may have something to understand in each other.

- Diane

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

- Henry Bromell

It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

- Bertrand Russell

But when a young lady is to be heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

- Jane Austen

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

- Julie Morgenstern

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

- Jane Austen

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

- Dr. George Washington Carver

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

- Jane Austen

I pay very little regard… to what any young person says on the subject of marriage.  If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

- Jane Austen

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

 Robert A. Heinlein

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

- Jeanne Moreau

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops.  If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

- Jeff Melvoin

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

- Jennifer Aniston

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

- John Barrymore

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.

- Jonathan Carroll

Think about a woman.  Doesn't know you're thinking about her.  Doesn't care you're thinking about her.  Makes you think about her even more.

- Margin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.  At night, the ice weasels come.

- Matt Groening

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

- Peter Ustinov

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

Love Thought by Rabbi Julius Gordon

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

- Randy K. Milholland

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling.  If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

- Real Live Preacher

I don't think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love.  Love is a gift and cannot be earned.  It can only be given.

- Real Live Preacher

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

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

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling.  If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

- Heart touching quotes by Trey Parker and Matt Stone

A woman can forgive a man for the harm her… but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.

- Brahman

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

- Henri Fredric Amiel

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

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

-    Erich Fromm

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

-  Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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 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

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

- Lao Tzu

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

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

- David Wilkerson

Fortune and love favor the brave.

- Ovid

Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one.

- Unknown

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

- Honore de Balzac

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

- Josh Billings

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

-  Sophocles

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

- Carl Sagan