Love

"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear." ~ Oprah Winfrey

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. ~Mother Teresa

I will show you a love potion without drug or any witchís spell: If you wish to be loved, love. ~ Hecato

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. ~ Karen Sunde

For an instant out lives met, our souls flowered. ~ Oscar Wilde

Loved people are loving people. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. ~ Kahlil Gibran

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. ~ Alfred Nobel

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ~ Victor Hugo, Les MisÈrables

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love. ~ Jack Nicholson

"Wherever you are, I am there also." ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven


The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. ~ Blaise Pascal

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away. ~ Dorothy Parker

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~ J. M. Barrie

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~ FranÁois Voltaire

Love in its essence is spiritual fire. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

As long as one can admire and love, then one is forever young. ~ Pablo Casals

Love is shown best in little ways. ~ Linda Thomson

Love must be as much a light as a flame. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is the beginning? Love./What is the course. Love still./What the goal. The goal is love. ~ Christina Rossetti, Love

Love one another--I mean really love. If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. ~ Frank Sinatra, Playboy

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved, 1999

The giving of love is an education in itself. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." ~ Samuel Johnson

Love is so short and forgetting is so long. ~ Pablo Neruda

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ~ Lord Tennyson

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable. ~ L. Frank Baum

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

The heart is half a prophet. ~ Yiddish Proverb

All mankind love a lover. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a fruit in season at all times. ~ Mother Teresa

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. ~ Mae West

For one human being to love another...the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love. ~ St. Teresa of Jesus

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

"You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you." ~ Brad Pitt

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. ~ Sophocles

Love is a dangerous angel. ~ Francesca Lia Block

But Iím lost when it comes to you. ~Carly Simon

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein

Who so loves/Believes the impossible. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is life. All, everything that I understand I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~ Charles Schulz (Charlie Brown)

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important. ~ Lisa Hoffman

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. ~ FranÁois Mauriac

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. ~ Marc Chagall

Your embraces alone give life to my heart. ~ Ancient Egyptian Saying

"Great loves, too, must be endured." ~ Coco Chanel

O, my luve is like a red, red rose. ~ Robert Burns

Where there is love there is life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff. ~ Tom Petty

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendor. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain. ~ Angela Thirkell

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. ~ Amy Tan

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you. ~ Erich Fromm

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart. ~ Alice Walker

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent. ~ D. H. Lawrence

Love is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles. ~ Lydia M. Child

"If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another." ~ Michelangelo

Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart. ~ Marlene Dietrich

Distance is ignored by love. (A`ohe loa`a i ka hana a ke aloha.) ~ Hawaiian Proverb

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses. ~ Voltaire

One is very crazy when in love. ~ Sigmund Freud

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

Donít you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered -- and I was delivered to you -- to be worn -- I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a button hole bouquet -- to the world. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

Where there is no love, put love and you will find love. ~ St. John of the Cross

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work, for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved. ~ Emma Goldman

When you love someone and the light of your love shines upon them, they bloom. ~ Auntie Ma'iki Aiu Lake