I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Love is a friendship set to music.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
When we are in love, we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
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.
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
We are most alive when we’re in love.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”– Lao Tzu
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”– Lucille Ball
“The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention.”– Richard Warren
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”– Victor Hugo
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.”– Helen Keller
“Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.”– Thomas Merton
“Love is a friendship set to music.”– Joseph Campbell
“In order to be happy oneself, it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”– Theodor Reik
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.”– George W. Melville
“Everyone in life is gonna hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.” – Erica Baican
“Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, love protects you from age.”– Jeanne Moreau
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”– Sam Keen
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”– Albert Ellis
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.” – Neil Gaiman
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”– William Shakespeare
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum
“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
“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.” – James M. Barrie
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” – Thomas Carlyle
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Menken
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.” – Thomas Mann
“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
“Whoso loves believes the impossible.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“What will survive of us is love.” – Philip Larkin
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” – Maya Angelou
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” – Lord Byron
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” – Dorothy Parker
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” – Seneca
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” – Lao Tzu
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” – Henry Miller
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike
“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
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” – Carl Sagan
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
“Love alone can rekindle life.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” – Madame de Stael
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“Nobody has ever measured — not even poets — how much love the human heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
“Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran
“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
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” – Dodie Smith
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.” – Sophocles
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” – E. M. Forster
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“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
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.” – Mitch Albom
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” – e. e. cummings
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”– Voltaire
“There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice.” – Shad Helmstetter
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”– George Bernard Shaw
“No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.” – Winston Churchill
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”– Abraham Lincoln
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”– Les Brown
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”– Dale Carnegie
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”– Alexander Graham Bell
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”– Socrates
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
“You can never plan the future by the past.”– Edmund Burke
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”– Dennis P. Kimbro
“At the end of their lives, people assess how they’ve done not in terms of their income but in terms of their spirit, and I beg you to do the same, even if those who came before sometimes failed to do so.”– Anna Quindlen
“Life is much more fun if you live it in the spirit of play and collaboration, working with instead of against others.” – Wally Amos
“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”– Vivian Komori
“In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”– Robert Frost
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”– W. M. Lewis
“Almost all of the research strongly supports the benefits of using humor to maximize living.” – Mary Kay Morrison
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”– Denis Waitley
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”– Vince Lombardi
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?” – Robert Frost