Quotations of love

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

Franklin P. Jones

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it

doesn't matter much what else you have.

Sir James M. Barrie

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love is a friendship set to music.E. Joseph Cossman

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your

ears checked.

Erich Segal

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

Voltaire

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run

smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

William Shakespeare

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Lord Byron

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers'

eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most

discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.Thomas Carlyle


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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Pearl Bailey

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

world.

Wayne Dyer

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

marry me.

Winston Churchill

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and

something to hope for. Allan K. Chalmers

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals

nothing.

~ Mignon McLaughlin

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

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers ifit 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

All love that has not friendship for its base,

is like a mansion built upon the sand.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.

~ Mother Teresa

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

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love.

~ Lao Tzu


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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

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

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

insupportable.

~ Victor Hugo

To fear love is to fear life,

and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

~ Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell

We can only learn to love by loving.

~ Iris Murdoch

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

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

You come to love not by finding the perfect person,

but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

~ Sam Keen

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

"Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John

Tarrant

"We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni

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

and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It

really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk

everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer


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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum

"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker

"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its

nature." - Howard Thurman

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." -

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud

"Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain

"Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action,

a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

"A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg

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

Ustinov

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain

forever." - unknown

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

Erich Fromm

"In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram,

Iowa Quad Cities Times

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." -

Elizabeth Browning

"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 Roumania."

- Dorothy Parker


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