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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Erich Fromm

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

J. Krishnamurti

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Lydia Maria Child

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Og Mandino

Do all things with love.

Og Mandino

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.

Sidney Poitier

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Bertrand Russell

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Kyle Schmidt

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Erich Segal

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...

William Shakespeare

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Stendhal

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

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

Mother Theresa

Nunc scio quit sit amor. (Latin) Now I know what love is.

Virgil

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson

There is only one terminal dignity -- love.

Helen Hayes

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Love builds bridges where there are none.

R. H. Delaney

Love Quotes

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

Unknown Author

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

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All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.

Author Unknown

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.

Javan

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.

Unknown Author
A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

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