Love Quotes

”Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.’ – Lao Tzu

‘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

‘Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.’ – Aristotle

‘We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.’ – Orson Welles

‘Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.’ – Ann Landers

‘I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.’ – David Viscott

‘There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.’ – Alphonse de Lamartine

‘True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.’ – Carl Sagan

‘Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.’ – Buddha

‘When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.’ – Albert Einstein

‘What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.’ – Helen Keller

‘We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.’ – Virginia Satir

‘It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.’ – Muriel Spark

‘Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.’ – Sarah Bernhardt

‘Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.’ – John Lennon

‘True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.’ – Torquato Tasso

‘Love has no age, no limit; and no death.’ – John Galsworthy

‘Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.’ – Loretta Young

‘Where there is love there is life.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.’ – Lucille Ball

‘There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.’ – May Sarton

‘Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.’ – John Gay

‘The best proof of love is trust.’ – Joyce Brothers

‘Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.’ – Franklin P. Jones

‘Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.’ – Ferdinand Foch

‘Love is a friendship set to music.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.’ – Max Muller

‘Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.’ – Samuel Lover

‘What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.’ – Pearl Bailey

‘Life is the flower for which love is the honey.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.’ – Zelda Fitzgerald

‘Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.’ – Voltaire

‘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

‘If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.’ – Samuel Beckett

‘A loving heart is the truest wisdom.’ – Charles Dickens

‘Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.’ – Duke Ellington

‘Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.’ – Billie Holiday

‘Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.’ – Robert A. Heinlein

‘Only do what your heart tells you.’ – Princess Diana

‘All mankind love a lover.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.’ – Gilbert Parker

‘Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.’ – Karl A. Menninger

‘Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.’ – Dwight L. Moody

‘A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.’ – Brendan Behan

‘The giving of love is an education in itself.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.’ – Ingrid Bergman

‘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.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘When love is not madness, it is not love.’ – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

‘One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘We can only learn to love by loving.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.’ – Javan

‘If you wished to be loved, love.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.’ – Robert Frost

‘Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.’ – Jim Morrison

‘People protect what they love.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau

‘Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.’ – Thomas a Kempis

‘The love we give away is the only love we keep.’ – Elbert Hubbard

‘Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘Be of love a little more careful than of anything.’ – e. e. cummings

‘Don’t forget to love yourself.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.’ – Joseph Joubert

‘Love does not dominate; it cultivates.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.’ – Jules Renard

‘Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.’ – Arthur Rimbaud

‘Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.’ – Peter Ustinov

‘Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘We loved with a love that was more than love.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’ – Emily Bronte

‘Love is the greatest refreshment in life.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.’ – Nicholas Sparks

‘Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.’ – James M. Barrie

‘Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.’ – David Wilkerson

‘The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.’ – Jeanette Winterson

‘You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.’ – Werner Erhard

‘Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘This love is silent.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.’ – Petrarch

‘Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Passion is momentary; love is enduring.’ – John Wooden

‘Love is being stupid together.’ – Paul Valery

‘You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.’ – Shirley MacLaine

‘The first duty of love is to listen.’ – Paul Tillich

‘The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘Love is metaphysical gravity.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘Choose your love, Love your choice.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘Our first and last love is self-love.’ – Christian Nestell Bovee

‘Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.’ – Laura Ingalls Wilder

‘If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.’ – Kristin Chenoweth

‘There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.’ – Charles Morgan

‘Though lovers be lost, love shall not.’ – Dylan Thomas

‘A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.’ – George Herbert

‘True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.’ – Erich Segal

‘Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.’ – Ben Hecht

‘We are born of love; Love is our mother.’ – Rumi

‘The cure for all the 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 M. Child

‘To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.’ – Theophile Gautier

‘Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.’ – Alexander Smith

‘Love is a game that two can play and both win.’ – Eva Gabor

‘There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.’ – Lorraine Hansberry

‘The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.’ – Jean de la Bruyere

‘The art of love is largely the art of persistence.’ – Albert Ellis

‘To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.’ – Henry Drummond

‘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

‘I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.’ – Vladimir Nabokov

‘Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.’ – Harry Emerson Fosdick

‘Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.’ – Truman Capote

‘The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.’ – Andre Breton

‘There are never enough I Love You’s.’ – Lenny Bruce

‘We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.’ – Tom Robbins

‘The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.’ – Helen Hayes

‘To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.’ – Will Durant

‘It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.’ – James Thurber

‘Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It’s free.’ – Taraji P. Henson

‘Ultimately love is everything.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘Love conquers all.’ – Virgil

‘I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.’ – Judy Garland

‘Who so loves believes the impossible.’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Stolen kisses are always sweetest.’ – Leigh Hunt

‘There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.’ – Carlos Santana

‘Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.’ – David Byrne

‘Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.’ – Boethius

‘Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.’ – Ray Stannard Baker

‘Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.’ – Thomas Moore

‘We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.’ – Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘The way to know life is to love many things.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘There is no limit to the power of loving.’ – John Morton

‘It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.’ – Thomas Mann

‘Love is blind.’ – Geoffrey Chaucer

‘Self-love is the source of all our other loves.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.’ – Anatole France

‘Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.’ – Aphra Behn

‘I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.’ – J. D. Salinger

‘The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.’ – William Hazlitt

‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Love is the beauty of the soul.’ – Saint Augustine

‘A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.’ – Jesus Christ

‘We love because it’s the only true adventure.’ – Nikki Giovanni

‘At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.’ – Plato

‘I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don’t know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.’ – Isabel Allende

‘In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.’ – Antonio Porchia

‘Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.’ – Jose Ortega y Gasset

‘The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.’ – Victor Hugo

‘A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving.’ – Cyrano de Bergerac

‘I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.’ – Leslie Fiedler

‘If you want to be loved, be lovable.’ – Ovid

‘The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.’ – Henry Miller

‘To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.’ – Robert Burton

‘With our love, we could save the world.’ – George Harrison

‘The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.’ – Martin Buber

‘The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.’ – John Cheever

‘Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.” – Erich Fromm

‘Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.’ – James Baldwin

‘There is no remedy for love but to love more.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘Love comes unseen; we only see it go.’ – Henry Austin Dobson

‘Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Love is a great beautifier.’ – Louisa May Alcott

‘To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.” – Ayn Rand

‘For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.’ – Marie de France

‘There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.’ – Reese Witherspoon

‘I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Take away love and our earth is a tomb.’ – Robert Browning

‘Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.’ – Fulton J. Sheen

‘I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.’ – Theodore Dreiser

‘Being in love is the only transcendent experience.’ – Armistead Maupin

‘What force is more potent than love?’ – Igor Stravinsky

‘Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.’ – John Ciardi

‘Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.’ – Tammy Wynette

‘Loved. You can’t use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.’ – Ken Kesey

‘Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.’ – Thomas Shadwell

‘Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.’ – Lao Tzu

‘All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.’ – Julie Andrews

‘Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.’ – Bob Hope

‘Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.’ – Helen Keller

‘There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.’ – George Eliot

‘Love is love’s reward.’ – John Dryden

‘Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.’ – William Law

‘The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.’ – John Henry Newman

‘When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.’ – Maurice Maeterlinck

‘Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.’ – Mother Teresa

‘In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.’ – Madame de Stael

‘He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.’ – Henri Matisse

‘Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.’ – Torquato Tasso

‘We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.’ – Helen Rowland

‘We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.’ – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

‘When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.’ – Natalie Clifford Barney

‘Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.’ – George Jean Nathan

‘Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.’ – Jesus Christ

‘When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘Love is suffering. One side always loves more.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘Fortune and love favor the brave.’ – Ovid

‘The more one judges, the less one loves.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.’ – Plato

‘Love is always being given where it is not required.’ – E. M. Forster

‘A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.’ – Stendhal

‘I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Love is never wrong.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.’ – Buddha

‘Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.’ – Bruce Lee

‘I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘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.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Love is the only gold.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.’ – Erich Fromm

‘If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.’ – Gwendolyn Brooks

‘Love is space and time measured by the heart.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Love in its essence is spiritual fire.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Friendship is Love without his wings!’ – Lord Byron

‘Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.’ – Josh Billings

‘Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.’ – Jean Anouilh

‘To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.’ – Alphonse de Lamartine

‘Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘Do all things with love.’ – Og Mandino

‘He is not a lover who does not love forever.’ – Euripides

‘The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.’ – Hans Urs von Balthasar

‘There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.’ – Billie Holiday

‘The ear is the avenue to the heart.’ – Voltaire

‘We all need each other.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘Love is a hole in the heart.’ – Ben Hecht

‘Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.’ – Thomas a Kempis

‘In every living thing there is the desire for love.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.’ – Tom Robbins

‘No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.’ – James M. Barrie

‘But love’s a malady without a cure.’ – John Dryden

‘To be able to say how much love, is love but little.’ – Petrarch

‘It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Love is my religion – I could die for it.’ – John Keats

‘The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.’ – Lawrence Durrell

‘Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give.’ – Kim Casali

‘Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.’ – Anais Nin

‘Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.’ – William Congreve

‘True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.’ – Anne Campbell

‘Who, being loved, is poor?’ – Oscar Wilde

‘To love another person is to see the face of God.’ – Victor Hugo

‘No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.’ – Thomas Moore

‘Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.’ – Marc Chagall

‘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

‘We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.’ – Bernard Meltzer

‘The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.’ – Mother Teresa

‘We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Love without conversation is impossible.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘I was adored once too.’ – William Shakespeare

‘There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.’ – Karl A. Menninger

‘To good and true love fear is forever affixed.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?’ – Christopher Marlowe

‘There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.’ – Princess Diana

‘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

‘Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.’ – Tammy Wynette

‘Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.’ – Euripides

‘Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.’ – Andre Breton

‘If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.’ – W. H. Auden

‘Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.’ – William Blake

‘Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?’ – Richard Bach

‘The eyes those silent tongues of love.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.’ – George Jean Nathan

‘Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.’ – George Eliot

‘Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.’ – Diane Ackerman

‘People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.’ – Ken Kesey

‘Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.’ – Francis Beaumont

‘Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.’ – Rita Rudner

‘We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.’ – Madame de Stael

‘Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?’ – James Baldwin

‘Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Love is a better teacher than duty.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Love has a tide!’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘Love is the poetry of the senses.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Any time not spent on love is wasted.’ – Torquato Tasso

‘Love dies only when growth stops.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘Love is energy of life.’ – Robert Browning

‘There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘All love is lost but upon God alone.’ – William Dunbar

‘Absence – that common cure of love.’ – Lord Byron

‘Great thoughts come from the heart.’ – Luc de Clapiers

‘The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.’ – Anais Nin

‘The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.’ – Plato

‘To love is to act.’ – Victor Hugo

‘More than kisses, letters mingle souls.’ – John Donne

‘The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.’ – Edwin Louis Cole

‘Love prefers twilight to daylight.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘Everything is clearer when you’re in love.’ – John Lennon

‘You don’t want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘It’s important for us to latch onto the people that we love.’ – Connie Stevens

‘The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.’ – Amelia Barr

‘All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.’ – Ovid

‘A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?’ – Igor Stravinsky

‘One must not trifle with love.’ – Alfred de Musset

‘Who loves, raves.’ – Lord Byron

‘As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.’ – William Shakespeare

‘At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord.’ – Bryan Procter

‘Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.’ – Euripides

‘If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only.’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Familiar acts are beautiful through love.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘People happy in love have an air of intensity.’ – Stendhal

‘If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.’ – Lynda Barry

‘My wife, my family, my friends – they’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.’ – Nicholas Sparks

‘Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.’ – Erich Segal

‘The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.’ – Max Muller

‘The crime of loving is forgetting.’ – Maurice Chevalier

‘Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.’ – John Dryden

‘Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.’ – Aphra Behn

‘If you’ve got love you’ve got life, if you can love you can live.’ – Kim Casali

‘How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.’ – Barbara Pym

‘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.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.’ – Jean de la Bruyere

‘Love is stronger than justice.’ – Sting

‘Do you have to have a reason for loving?’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.’ – Judith Viorst

‘The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.’ – Rebecca Harding Davis

‘Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.’ – Rumi

‘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

‘Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.’ – Sai Baba

‘Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.’ – Steve Jobs

‘Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.’ – Robert Browning

‘I’m just so happy, and I’m grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.’ – Marc Anthony

‘There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.’ – Washington Irving

‘Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.’ – William Shakespeare

‘The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘I’m having fun. I’m being myself. I’m doing what I love. That’s all that matters.’ – James Charles

‘Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.’ – Maya Angelou

‘I’m very thankful to all my fans for their constant love and support. I am what I am because of their unconditional love.’ – Mahesh Babu

‘The greatest pleasure of life is love.’ – Euripides

‘I think the confidence that I have right now is something that was created by the fans who love me.’ – G-Dragon

‘The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.’ – Theodore Hesburgh

‘I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.’ – Taylor Swift

‘There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.’ – George Sand

‘Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.’ – Stevie Wonder

‘Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.’ – Erich Fromm

‘I want to thank all our fans all around the world for their unconditional love and support. It really means a lot to me.’ – Jennie

‘I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.’ – John Keats

‘Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.’ – William Ellery Channing

‘Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Grief is the price we pay for love.’ – Queen Elizabeth II

‘Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.’ – Ben Okri

‘But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.’ – Jesus Christ

‘I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.’ – Douglas Adams

‘A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.’ – Brad Henry

‘Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.’ – Mao Zedong

‘If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.’ – Richard Bach

‘Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.’ – Nadia Comaneci

‘Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.’ – Lawrence Welk

‘Love is a serious mental disease.’ – Plato

‘Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.’ – Audre Lorde

‘Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Love is friendship set on fire.’ – Jeremy Taylor

‘My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was ‘Caroselli’ and it was changed in the mid ’50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name ‘Caroselli.” – Steve Carell

‘It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.’ – Confucius

‘There is no sincerer love than the love of food.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.’ – W. H. Auden

‘True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.’ – Ricardo Montalban

‘The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.’ – Arthur Rubinstein

‘I am overwhelmed by the love showered on me by my fans.’ – The Great Khali

‘Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.’ – Ella Fitzgerald

‘Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘I love my fans, so when I get the chance to interact with them, it’s beautiful.’ – Flo Rida

‘To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.’ – Mary Oliver

‘I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.’ – Satchel Paige

‘When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.’ – Lord Byron

‘The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.’ – Drake

‘To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.’ – Ogden Nash

‘Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I’m tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.’ – Johnny Weir

‘There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.’ – William Wordsworth

‘I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That’s my motto.’ – Melanie Martinez

‘Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.’ – Michael Jackson

‘Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.’ – Brene Brown

‘Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘Things are beautiful if you love them.’ – Jean Anouilh

‘One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.’ – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

‘When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.’ – Mark Twain

‘Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.’ – Yogi Berra

‘I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.’ – Eminem

‘I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.’ – Og Mandino

‘Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.’ – Bradley Whitford

‘A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it, A song’s not a song ’til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!’ – Oscar Hammerstein II

‘Let’s practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.’ – Zendaya

‘Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.’ – Barack Obama

‘Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.’ – Christopher Marlowe

‘Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.’ – Ovid

‘The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.’ – Brian Tracy

‘Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.’ – Alexander the Great

‘I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.’ – Julius Caesar

‘You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.’ – Ram Dass

‘Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.’ – Bruce Lee

‘It is impossible to love and to be wise.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!’ – David O. McKay

‘It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent – a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident – that is very sexy – but at the same time, he’s very kind to people.’ – Nicole Scherzinger

‘The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘With love and patience, nothing is impossible.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.’ – Albert Camus

‘The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I’ve forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I’m ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it’s never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.’ – Jon Jones

‘There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.’ – Andy Serkis

‘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

‘A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.’ – Saint Basil

‘There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.’ – Lope de Vega

‘He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.’ – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

‘True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.’ – Sadhu Vaswani

‘True love – that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy – is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.’ – Mark Manson

‘Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.’ – Ariana Grande

‘Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.’ – Jose Rizal

‘When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.’ – John Ruskin

‘The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.’ – Jackie Kennedy

‘I don’t have to do things just to please people. It’s okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they’re really the only ones that should matter.’ – Nicki Minaj

‘I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.’ – Matt Lauer

‘Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.’ – Deirdre O’Kane

‘Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.’ – Alan Watts

‘Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.’ – Adam Sandler

‘The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.’ – Stacy London

‘To all the other dreamers out there, don’t ever stop or let the world’s negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.’ – Adam Green

‘A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.’ – James E. Faust

‘The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.’ – Jimi Hendrix

‘I love sleep; it’s my favorite.’ – Kanye West

‘I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo

‘I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I’m most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherited wealth.’ – Li Lu

‘I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it’s been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.’ – Dua Lipa

‘The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.’ – bell hooks

‘Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind – because if you can’t trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust? – Alexandra Bracken’ – Alexandra Bracken

‘Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn’t matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.’ – Domhnall Gleeson

‘Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! – Sitting Bull’ – Sitting Bull

‘He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.’ – Plautus

‘Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.’ – Menachem Begin

‘Grace is what matters in anything – especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That’s a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘Unfortunately, everyone thought that Teri Hatcher was my wife. Matter of fact, I would be with my wife, holding my wife’s hand at a football game, and someone would come up to me and say, ‘Hey, I love those commercials you do with your wife.’ My kids almost had shirts made up that said, ‘Teri Hatcher is not my mom.” – Howie Long

‘From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.’ – Hilaire Belloc

‘Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.’ – Liana Liberato

‘You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.’ – Charles M. Schulz

‘A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.’ – Hafez

‘Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.’ – Anais Nin

‘Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.’ – William Congreve

‘Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.’ – Carl Jung

‘I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!’ – William Allen White

‘Music is love in search of a word.’ – Sidney Lanier

‘Love’s tongue is in his eyes.’ – John Fletcher

‘Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.’ – Philip James Bailey

‘Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.’ – Alfred A. Montapert

‘If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.’ – Billy Joel

‘I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.’ – Thomas Paine

‘Do what you love and go after your dreams. Don’t regret it. Don’t hesitate.’ – Jackson Wang

‘Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.’ – David Frost

‘If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.’ – Christian Louboutin

‘I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man’s bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they’re not well manicured, you’ve got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don’t want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.’ – Brooke Burke

‘Life is a game and true love is a trophy.’ – Rufus Wainwright

‘Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.’ – William Godwin

‘I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I’m grateful for that.’ – SZA

‘Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien

‘Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.’ – Kinky Friedman

‘There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.’ – Eugene Kennedy

‘Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.’ – Jack Layton

‘God to me is love.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.’ – Walt Disney

‘I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.’ – Gina Bellman

‘I love the rain. It’s my favorite weather.’ – Kristen Wiig

‘I love the forest. It is the place where you hear yourself better.’ – Fahadh Faasil

‘To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray

‘The only love affair I have ever had was with music.’ – Maurice Ravel

‘We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.’ – Antonio Brown

‘The things that we love tell us what we are.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.’ – Josh Billings

‘God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.” – Billy Graham

‘I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.’ – Conor Oberst

‘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

‘If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.’ – James Herriot

‘It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.’ – Benjamin Britten

‘Football is unconditional love.’ – Tom Brady

‘Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.’ – Unknown

‘To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.’ – Derek Jeter

‘Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.’ – George Eliot

‘I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.’ – Evel Knievel

‘I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.’ – Adam Yauch

‘Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.’ – Al Lopez

‘Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.’ – Julia Child

‘Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!’ – Bethany Hamilton

‘In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.’ – Sophia Loren

‘We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘I am thankful to all the love that I have received from my fans.’ – Shaheer Sheikh

‘Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.’ – Hannah Bronfman

‘If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.’ – Will Rogers

‘I’m very happy being me, although sometimes I’d love to be a bird so that I could fly.’ – Joy Fielding

‘If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.’ – Elon Musk

‘I’ll always love the time I spent making ‘Black and White.” – Peter Molyneux

‘So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.’ – Haniel Long

‘Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your soulmate doesn’t have to be your partner – your soulmate could be your best friend, your sibling, it doesn’t have to be the person you marry.’ – Cheryl Cole

‘I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.’ – Riya Sen

‘I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.’ – George Washington Carver

‘You give loyalty, you’ll get it back. You give love, you’ll get it back.’ – Tommy Lasorda

‘Honestly, just all the love and respect from the fans, that’s always the biggest thing that puts a smile on my face.’ – Demetrious Johnson

‘Music is only love looking for words.’ – Lawrence Durrell

‘The more people love you, the more there’s going to be people that hate you.’ – Kylie Jenner

‘Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.’ – Mahavira

‘I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.’ – William Blake

‘I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.’ – Rita Rudner

‘When love hits you, it hits you and you don’t expect it.’ – Selena

‘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

‘Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.’ – Hippocrates

‘A first love always occupies a special place.’ – Lee Konitz

‘Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.’ – Corita Kent

‘I feel extremely honoured and humbled that people are showing me so much love. My fans have stood by me through thick and thin, and I think this love is what makes my concerts house-full.’ – Yo Yo Honey Singh

‘I believe it’s so important to love life, enjoy it for its small moments and live without regrets – life is so unpredictable.’ – Mahesh Manjrekar

‘Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘Love is so short, forgetting is so long.’ – Pablo Neruda

‘You gotta love livin’, baby, ’cause dyin’ is a pain in the ass.’ – Frank Sinatra

‘I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.’ – Lana Del Rey

‘You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.’ – Paul Walker

‘Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.’ – Minna Antrim

‘Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘Love isn’t always about hanging on. Sometimes it’s about letting go.’ – Reham Khan

‘Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.’ – Shahid Kapoor

‘I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.’ – Pietro Aretino

‘There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you’ll stand firm if you stand on His love.’ – Charles Stanley

‘I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.’ – Jordan Peele

‘Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.’ – Woody Allen

‘To all my fans, I love y’all. I wouldn’t have made it without you.’ – Offset

‘We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.’ – Ellsworth Huntington

‘A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.’ – Brad Pitt

‘Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone – but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.’ – Quentin Crisp

‘The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.’ – William Sloane Coffin

‘To love someone means to see him as God intended him.’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky

‘If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.’ – Julia Roberts

‘People love stories about the mafia: ‘The Godfather,’ ‘American Gangster.” – Jason Statham

‘When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.’ – Mitski

‘In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.’ – Paul McCartney

‘Life is really not easy, we all have our personal battles, but it is important that you really treasure yourself, love yourself and have a sense of self-worth.’ – Heart Evangelista

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

‘I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.’ – Chelsea Leyland

‘We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.’ – William E. Gladstone

‘Forgiveness is the final form of love.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.’ – Ho Chi Minh

‘People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.’ – Simon Cowell

‘I love life because what more is there?’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.’ – Mary Manin Morrissey

‘I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.’ – Amelia Earhart

‘I’ve learned it’s important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.’ – Che Guevara

‘I love fantasy; I love imagination – that’s the inner child in me.’ – Hannah John-Kamen

‘If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.’ – Stephen Stills

‘A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘The secret ingredient to every meal is love. And also garlic.’ – Michael Sorrentino

‘Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.’ – Johnny Cash

‘Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.’ – David Chang

‘As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.’ – Adam Smith

‘Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.’ – Sam Keen

‘Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.’ – Greg Anderson

‘A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.’ – Paul Sweeney

‘Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.’ – Michael Novak

‘Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that’s as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all – humanity was wounded by the genocide.’ – Immaculee Ilibagiza

‘For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.’ – John Burroughs

‘I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.’ – Jay-Z

‘Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.’ – A. J. McLean

‘I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.’ – Richard Burton

‘Love the giver more than the gift.’ – Brigham Young

‘Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘Tomorrow’s not promised. You may love someone; you may have a grudge because of something that they did to you, and it was unfair, but life’s not fair. Life is very short, so clean up your grudges. Let’s not hold them.’ – Mya

‘In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.’ – Graham Greene

‘Narcissism is not about self love. It’s a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.’ – Drew Pinsky

‘I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.’ – Robin Williams

‘Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.’ – Giada De Laurentiis

‘Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.’ – Judy Collins

‘You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘I love women to death.’ – Playboi Carti

‘Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.’ – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

‘I love editing. It’s one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Love is a reciprocal torture.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.’ – Robert Wagner

‘Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.’ – Roger de Rabutin

‘Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.’ – Gwendoline Christie

‘Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I always love going home anyway; it’s where my roots are. I always like to go back. It’s a good reminder of where I started and the journey that I still have to go on to get where I want to be.’ – Millie Bright

‘The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.’ – Michael Jordan

‘I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.’ – Johnny Depp

‘You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.’ – Tony Hawk

‘Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing.’ – Bruce Dickinson

‘If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.’ – John Irving

‘I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It’s the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.’ – Ronan Keating

‘To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.’ – John Locke

‘To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.’ – David Hume

‘I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.’ – Amy Winehouse

‘A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.’ – Virat Kohli

‘For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.’ – John Donne

‘Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.’ – St. Jerome

‘It’s either love or hate with me. People really can hate me.’ – Lil Peep

‘When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘I fell in love with the Maldives. It’s a beautiful place!’ – Tridha Choudhury

‘I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.’ – Karen McDougal

‘I love being in a city with great weather.’ – Sean McVay

‘Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.’ – Yolanda Hadid

‘Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.’ – Katharine Hepburn

‘I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.’ – Lady Gaga

‘I love travelling; going to different parts of the world and making new friends is something that I really enjoy.’ – Shriya Saran

‘The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.’ – Bill Vaughan

‘Life is just a bowl of cherries, don’t take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.’ – Bob Fosse

‘Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.’ – Tori Spelling

‘May my soul bloom in love for all existence.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘I think when we truly love something, we get the same true love in return.’ – Diljit Dosanjh

‘The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.’ – Basil Hume

‘I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.’ – Natalie Portman

‘The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.” – Paul Theroux

‘I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.’ – Elizabeth I

‘Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.’ – John Lewis

‘I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.’ – Dogen

‘Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.’ – Ramakrishna

‘Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.’ – Gabriel Iglesias

‘Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet – thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing – consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.’ – Lance Secretan

‘Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it.’ – Marian Keyes

‘And love is love in beggars and in kings.’ – Edward Dyer

‘I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.’ – Neil Strauss

‘When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.’ – Hubert H. Humphrey

‘Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it’s sparse. There’s nothing that’s pretentious or planned. It’s just so gutsy.’ – Adele

‘Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it’s orthogonal – there’s no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they’re doing.’ – Gabe Newell

‘Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.’ – George Burns

‘I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.’ – Ken Wilber

‘The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.’ – Publilius Syrus

‘I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one’s longevity and health.’ – John Williams

‘Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.’ – Joan of Arc

‘It is very easy to love alone.’ – Gertrude Stein

‘Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.’ – Ileana D’Cruz

‘Life is short but love your loved ones. Love them, kiss them every day because you don’t know what’s going to happen.’ – Angelina Pivarnick

‘True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.’ – Suze Orman

‘Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.’ – John le Carre

‘The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘To know her was to love her.’ – Samuel Rogers

‘I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.’ – Lindsey Shaw

‘It always feels good to come back here. I love New York… it’s just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.’ – Latrell Sprewell

‘What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.’ – Bob Marley

‘You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.’ – Dolly Parton

‘I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.’ – Hozier

‘I have spent a lot of time in Italy throughout my career – especially when I was karting, because it’s kind of the world centre of that sport – and I love it.’ – Lewis Hamilton

‘Where there is great love, there are always wishes.’ – Willa Cather

‘Yet there are some people – Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he’s a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I’m doing it right now and you all seem bored.’ – Bob Saget

‘If you love god, burn a church.’ – Jello Biafra

‘If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.’ – RM

‘No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.’ – George Chakiris

‘Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.’ – The Weeknd

‘One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.’ – Jacqueline Leo

‘There’s not much difference between love and hate.’ – Ichiro Suzuki

‘If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever.’ – Sam Walton

‘My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.’ – Michelle Obama

‘Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.’ – Michelangelo

‘As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.’ – James Lane Allen

‘I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.’ – Sonam Kapoor

‘I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.’ – Tom Cruise

‘No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.’ – Alexander Pope

‘I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.’ – DJ Khaled

‘Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.’ – Peter Porter

‘Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?’ – Jon Bon Jovi

‘With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.’ – Joyce Giraud

‘Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you’re not really alone.’ – Molly Tarlov

‘I just want to love and be loved.’ – Jennie Garth

‘There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn’t be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.’ – Jill Robinson

‘A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.’ – Annie Leibovitz

‘If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.’ – Ray Kroc

‘Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.’ – Julius Gordon

‘Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.’ – Lionel Messi

‘We do not judge the people we love.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.’ – Raoul Vaneigem

‘Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.’ – Karl Marx

‘I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.’ – Alice Walker

‘Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.’ – James Altucher

‘You just have to be true to yourself and do what you love to do.’ – Mickie James

‘To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?’ – Katharine Graham

‘I’m a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That’s just me and what I do, and I’m not going to change it.’ – George Strait

‘Palestinian people are in love with life.’ – Mahmoud Darwish

‘I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.’ – A. Whitney Brown

‘As I’m getting older, I’m really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘What is essential in love is what the French call ‘amour fou.’ What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn’t sound as beautiful. It’s a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.’ – Mario Vargas Llosa

‘We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, ‘Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?” – Margaret Trudeau

‘Whatever I am today is all because of the love and support I have received from the people of Haryana.’ – Sangram Singh

‘If you love being a chef then give it all you’ve got!’ – Monica Galetti

‘Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody’s going to hate you for it.’ – Shane Dawson

‘I love glamour and being sexy and dressing up, and I think it’s good to be confident.’ – Kelly Brook

‘The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.’ – Josephine Baker

‘Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘If you love something let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.’ – Douglas Horton

‘You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.’ – Sri Chinmoy

‘Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.’ – Mother Teresa

‘If music be the food of love, play on.’ – William Shakespeare

‘If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.’ – Lord Byron

‘I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.’ – Maya Angelou

‘When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.’ – John Lennon

‘Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.’ – Rumi

‘Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.’ – Euripides

‘And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.’ – Lord Byron

‘I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.’ – Taylor Swift

‘I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.’ – Brene Brown

‘Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its 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

‘The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.’ – Rumi

‘Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘People always make war when they say they love peace.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.’ – Lord Byron

‘I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.’ – Thomas Merton

‘True love stories never have endings.’ – Richard Bach

‘Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.’ – John Lennon

‘Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.’ – Sai Baba

‘The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.’ – Euripides

‘There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.’ – Washington Irving

‘I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.’ – Princess Diana

‘For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.’ – Ram Dass

‘In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.’ – William Blake

‘Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.’ – Rumi

‘A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.’ – W. H. Auden

‘I know of only one duty, and that is to love.’ – Albert Camus

‘Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.’ – Maya Angelou

‘What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.’ – Lord Byron

‘To love beauty is to see light.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.’ – Rumi

‘Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.’ – Alan Watts

‘Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.’ – Mary Oliver

‘I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.’ – Lou Holtz

‘May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.’ – Robert A. Heinlein

‘Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘You can’t be in love with a Google search.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.’ – Ariana Grande

‘Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.’ – James E. Faust

‘One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.’ – Brene Brown

‘A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.’ – James Baldwin

‘A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘You have to know that as long as you love who you are – your morals, your values, that type of stuff – you’re OK.’ – Nicki Minaj

‘We live in the world when we love it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.’ – John Lennon

‘If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.’ – Frank Sinatra

‘Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.’ – Billy Graham

‘You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.’ – Julia Roberts

‘Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.’ – Lucille Ball

‘There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.’ – Elon Musk

‘Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?’ – Carl Jung

‘The love of economy is the root of all virtue.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘When I see children, I see the face of God. That’s why I love them so much. That’s what I see.’ – Michael Jackson

‘Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.’ – Robert Browning

‘The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.’ – William Wordsworth

‘What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.’ – John Lewis

‘Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.’ – George Washington Carver

‘The most important thing in the world is family and love.’ – John Wooden

‘People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.’ – Albert Einstein

‘It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray

‘The less people know about you, the more you understand how beautiful life is. It’s good when you exist only on screen. I don’t want them to take me home. I love to have my privacy.’ – Fahadh Faasil

‘Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.’ – e. e. cummings

‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘We love things we love what they are.’ – Robert Frost

‘It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘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

‘Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘The love of heaven makes one heavenly.’ – William Shakespeare

‘If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.’ – Jesus Christ

‘Love is the one wild card.’ – Taylor Swift

‘He that is jealous is not in love.’ – Saint Augustine

‘No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.’ – Plato

‘If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.’ – Ovid

‘I love not man the less, but Nature more.’ – Lord Byron

‘Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.’ – Rumi

‘The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.’ – Helen Keller

‘My eye is ever on those who love me.’ – Sai Baba

‘A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all.’ – Washington Irving

‘Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘The best way to know God is to love many things.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.’ – Albert Camus

‘As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.’ – Ram Dass

‘May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘All you need is love.’ – John Lennon

‘Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.’ – Lord Byron

‘Love will find its way through all languages on its own.’ – Rumi

‘Intense love does not measure, it just gives.’ – Mother Teresa

‘They do not love that do not show their love.’ – William Shakespeare

‘I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.’ – Brene Brown

‘Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.’ – Maya Angelou

‘I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ – Jesus Christ

‘There are no rules when it comes to love.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Love, and do what you like.’ – Saint Augustine

‘I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.” – Rumi

‘Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.’ – Mother Teresa

‘Love is trembling happiness.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.’ – Taylor Swift

‘The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.’ – Rumi

‘If you 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