Love Quotes

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Han Suyin

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is a kind of warfare.

Ovid

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn.

Alanis Morissette

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

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

William Penn

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Amy Vanderbilt

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

Voltaire

lovers alone wear sunlight.

E. e. cummings

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

John Ray

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Buddha

Where you find true friendship, You find true love.

Unknown

Love truth, but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

Joan Borysenko

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.

Jonathan Swift

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

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.

Erich Fromm

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Robert Herrick

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham