love Quotes

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Love is a better teacher than duty.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. ‘Deserves’ is not the point. And ‘owes’ is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is – in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.

I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Love is boundary-less.

I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Him that I love, I wish to be free – even from me.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

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.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than if hatred had not preceded it.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

A source of trouble is our unruly minds. We can counter that by developing a warm heart. We need to effect an inner transformation, to understand that love and affection are a real source of joy.

Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

We need not think alike to love alike.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one can not be friends with anyone else in the world.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

You like to respect and admire someone whom you love, but actually, you love even more the people who require understanding and who make mistakes and have to grow with their mistakes.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.