Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
Gao Xingjian
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Love has more depth as you get older.
Kirk Douglas
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo F. Buscaglia
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois
Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.
Gael Greene
A woman who is loved always has success.
Vicki Baum
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Charles Lindbergh
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
I really would have liked to love, but I didn't trust myself to allow it.
Karl Valentin
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
It's a heartacheNothing but a heartacheHits you when it's too lateHits you when you're down.
Bonnie Tyler
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
Nicholas Chamfort
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
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Thomas Carlyle
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love is blind - but not the neighbors.
Mexican Proverb
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
Philip James Bailey
I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
John Keats
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
Simone Signoret
For to do things with care is the closest thing to love that I know the cape of grace falling softly about the shoulders as we focus on the task at hand whether it be to listen or to leave or to learn.
Jane Siberry
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.
Francoise Sagan
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"I'm weaker than you know."
John Mayer
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
Orlando Bloom
You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than disease / And boldness is the root of beauty- / Which draws us together.
Boris Pasternak
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
Katherine Mansfield
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
John Lennon
Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.
John Piper
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Arthur Wing Pinero
Give me love and work - these two only.
William Morris
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas Père
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.
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman
I love you when I forget about me.
Joni Mitchell
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield
Love that can be explained is not love.
Zhang Yimou
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
E. E. Cummings
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
Emily Bronte
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
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
Eddie Vedder
True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
Edmund Spenser
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
If you find someone that you think is your soul-mate, someone you could potentially spend the rest of your life with, why ruin it by staying together?
Elvira Kurt
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the "mystery" of life.
Emile M. Cioran
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
You know love is everything you say;a whisper, a word, promises you give.You feel it in the heartbeat of the day.You know this is the way love is.
Alex Langwenya
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.
Erich Fromm
Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never find a way / And tell me all my love's in vain.
Eric Clapton
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore
I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.
Evita Perón
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Eustace Budgell
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
Hate the sin and love the sinner.
Mahatma Ghandi
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
Nikki Giovanni
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
M. C. Escher
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.
Oscar Wilde
Amor Fati – 'Love Your Fate', which is in fact your life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde
The way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
Chuck Palahniuk
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
Frank Sinatra
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Robert Frost
We are most alive when we're in love.
John Updike
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
Sri Chinmoy
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
Oprah Winfrey
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin
This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Rita Mae Brown
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Rita Mae Brown
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
George F. Burns
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
Mother Teresa
It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa
It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa
There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
M. C. Escher
It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.
Christian Dior
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare
For aught that I could ever read,Could ever hear by tale or history,The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
William Shakespeare
The course of true love was never easy.
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!
William Shakespeare
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
William Shakespeare
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
William Shakespeare
If rough be love with you, be rough with love.
William Shakespeare
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare
If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with thine eyes, but with thine mind, Therefore is win'd Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Horace Mann
Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
Tommy Lasorda
The only way you really do this is if you love it. It takes dedication.
Andrew Smith
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
Ho Chi Minh
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway
When a king comes on the turn, I love that hand even better.
Aaron Rosenberg
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Charles Dickens
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
Ann Landers
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
Scott Westerfeld
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
English Proverb
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.
English Proverb
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
Charles M. Schulz
Love will find a lay.
Robert Byrne
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
Deepak Chopra
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.
Sri Chinmoy
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer
You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.
Sri Chinmoy
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Walt Disney
Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.
Sri Chinmoy
Girls bored me - they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Walt Disney
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G. K. Chesterton
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault
We only know of one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
Randy K. Milholland
I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need,by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,tears,of all my life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
Fulton J. Sheen
In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.
Randy K. Milholland
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
G. K. Chesterton
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
Albert Camus
Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.
Randy K. Milholland
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Jean Anouilh
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb
Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
Fulton J. Sheen
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward
Hope is only the love of life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.
Arlo Guthrie
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Fulton J. Sheen
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
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