Quotes about: love

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
– William Shakespeare
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
– Constantin Stanislavski
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
– Mae West
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
– William Shakespeare
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
– Aaron Carter
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
– Khalil Gibran
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
– Maya Angelou
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
– Thomas Merton
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
– Zane Grey
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
– Joseph Butler
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
– Ninon de L'Enclos
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
– Honore de Balzac
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
– Anais Nin
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
– Mae West
Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
– Marianne Williamson
Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.
– Gilbert Parker
Love is trembling happiness.
– Khalil Gibran
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
– Torquato Tasso
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
– Andre Breton
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
– Samuel Johnson
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
– William Shakespeare
Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.
– Will Smith
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
– Madame de Stael
Love is the river of life in the world.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
– H. L. Mencken
Love is the poetry of the senses.
– Honore de Balzac
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
– Theodor Adorno
Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
– John Wooden
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
– Henry Van Dyke
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
– Pablo Picasso
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
– Delmore Schwartz
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
– John Lennon
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
Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
– Ray Bradbury
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
– Thomas Merton
Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
– David Frost
Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.
– Emilie de Ravin
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
– Moliere
Love is not consolation. It is light.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
– Erich Fromm
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
– Maya Angelou
Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
– Brittany Snow
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
– Bryan Cranston
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
– Michael Novak
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
– Ray Bradbury
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
– Alexander Smith
Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
– Jesse Ventura
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
– Robert Wyatt
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
– Emily Dickinson
Love is based on imagination.
– Olivier Martinez
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
– Octavio Paz
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
– George Best
Love is always being given where it is not required.
– E. M. Forster
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
– Peter Ustinov
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
– Madame de Stael
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
– Paulo Coelho
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
– William Shakespeare
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
– Gustave Flaubert
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
– Victor Hugo
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love is a friendship set to music.
– Joseph Campbell
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
– George Bernard Shaw
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
– Fulton J. Sheen
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
– Ani Difranco
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
– Edward Abbey
Love has no age, no limit and no death.
– John Galsworthy
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
– Donald Trump
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
– Zane Grey
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
– Stendhal
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
– Meir Kahane
Love food and I love to eat.
– Salma Hayek
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
– Elbert Hubbard
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
– Joyce Cary
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
– Dorothy Day
Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
– Mortimer Adler
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
– Hector Berlioz
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
– Paulo Coelho
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
– Sigmund Freud
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
– Samuel Richardson
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
– James Joyce
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
– Joseph Joubert
Love and friendship exclude each other.
– Jean de la Bruyere
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
– Cornel West
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
– Khalil Gibran
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
– Eustace Budgell
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
– Julie Burchill
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
– St. Francis of Assisi
Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
– Imelda Staunton
Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
– Eric Cantor
Look your best - who said love is blind?
– Mae West