“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,AND THEREFORE IS WINGED CUPID PAINTED BLIND.”
― William Shakespeare
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse
Thoughts not only about happy, romantic love but also the love between friends and family.
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
— Lord Byron
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
— LAO TZU
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
— Euripides
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We are most alive when we’re in love.”
— John Updike
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
— Pablo Neruda
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
— Sophocles
“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
— Ovid
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
— MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
I know of no greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, without end.
–FRANZ KAFKA
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
–JEANNE MOREAU
We love because it’s the only true adventure.
–NIKKI GIOVANNI
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
I wish I had done everything on Earth with you.
–THE GREAT GATSBY
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
–CHARLES DICKENS
Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
–MARY OLIVER
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.
– E.E. CUMMINGS
Love is the product of how you respond … Love is showing your partner they’re safe, you’ll catch them if they fall, and you’ll drop everything if they need you. Love is unconditional. Love doesn’t keep score.
–SHANE PARRISH
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
–ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
–BARBARA DE ANGELIS
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
–BARBARA DE ANGELIS
Love all, trust a few.
–WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
– ARISTOTLE
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIÈRE
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
–VINCENT VAN GOGH
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO
All you need is love.
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
PABLO PICASSO
If you don’t love yourself who will?
–NAVAL RAVIKANT
A life lived in love will never be dull.
–LEO BUSCAGLIA
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
– ELBERT HUBBARD
Love does not die easily. It is a living thing.
–JAMES D. BRYDEN
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
–W. H. MURRAY
If you can’t stop thinking about it, it’s a good thing. It means you’re alive.
–MAXIME LAGACÉ
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
–KAHLIL GIBRAN
Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
–ROBERT FROST
Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
– DALE EVANS
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
–RUMI
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
– LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
– BARBARA DE ANGELIS
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.
–DALAI LAMA
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
–HELEN KELLER
‘Light! Give me light!’ was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
HELEN KELLER
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
– BARBARA DE ANGELIS
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
– RUMI
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
–BEN HECHT
Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you. My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
–JOHN KEATS
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
-OSCAR WILDE
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.
– ELAINE DAVIS
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
– LEO CHRISTOPHER
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.
–ZELDA FITZGERALD
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
– HAFIZ OF PERSIA
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
–DIANE ARBUS
I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
–UNKNOWN
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
–PEARL BAILEY
Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
–ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
–WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the Exponent of earth.
–EMILY DICKINSON
True friendships ask for nothing in return that’s why I call them the perfect love.
–MAXIME LAGACÉ
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
– ELIE WIESEL
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
– ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
–ROBIN MORGAN
She remembered who she was and the game changed.
– LALAH DELIAH
I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
–PEARL S. BUCK
Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.
–WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN
Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one can not be friends with anyone else in the world.
–ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
–RUMI
Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.
–TOM FRESTON
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the lover of it. I live it.
– MAYA ANGELOU
Work without love is slavery.
– MOTHER TERESA
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
–PELE
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
I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.
-Taylor Swift
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
The giving of love is an education in itself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
-Charles Schulz
I love how she makes me feel like anything is possible, or like life is worth it.
-Tom Hansen
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
-Victor Hugo
You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.
-Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice
Some love stories aren’t epic novels. Some are short stories. But that doesn’t make them any less filled with love.
-Carrie Bradshaw
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldby
Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
-William Goldman
I am who I am because of you.
-Nicholas Sparks
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
–CHARLES DICKENS
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
-Roy Croft
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To Love is nothing to be loved is something..to love and be loved is everything.
-Bill Russell
Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.
I can’t wait… to spend the rest of my life with you.
I love those hugs where you just don’t want to let go
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