Selected love quotes

1. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

2. Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

3. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

4. Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love's sake - as mine to thee. Duty's a slave that keeps the keys, But Love, the master, goes in and out Of his goodly chambers with song and shout, Just as he please - just as he please.

5. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

6. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

7. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

8. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

9. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

10. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

11. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?,' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

12. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

13. Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

14. The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

15. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

16. Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

17. I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

18. I wish they would only take me as I am.

19. Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

20. Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

21. Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

22. The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

23. I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

24. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

25. Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

26. As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

27. You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

28. There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

29. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

30. No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

31. There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

32. No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

33. Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

34. This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as an actual putting it into practice.

35. Love is the law, love under will.

36. Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

37. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

38. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

39. The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach.

40. Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

41. Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

42. At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

43. Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

44. I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.

45. I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

46. Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

47. If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.

48. Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

49. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

50. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

51. Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

52. An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

53. Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

54. I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

55. Strong women only marry weak men.

56. Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

57. It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.

58. I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.

59. Overcome the devils with a thing named love.

60. We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.

61. Britney: My love doesn't scare me. Other people's love scares me.

62. Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

63. Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

64. If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver.

65. In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

66. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

67. Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.

68. To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

69. If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

70. There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

71. I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

72. What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

73. They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

74. I love you, what star do you live on?

75. My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

76. Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

77. It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

78. The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

79. The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

80. The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

81. But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

82. What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

83. Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

84. Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love - a simple duty.

85. The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

86. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

87. I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come.

88. Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

89. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

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

91. Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

92. Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

93. The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

94. Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.

95. Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

96. Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

97. 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.

98. What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

99. In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

100. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.