Love is a great beautifier.  

- Louisa May Alcott  

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.  

- Margaret Anderson  

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.  

- Barbara De Angelis  

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.  

- Barbara De Angelis  

- Barbara De Angelis  

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.  

- Saint Thomas Aquinas  

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.  

- Jean Anouilh Ardele  

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.  

- Aristotle  

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.  

- Elizabeth Ashley  

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  

Love, and do what you like.  

- Saint Augustine  

Love is the beauty of the soul.  

- Saint Augustine  

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.  

- Saint Augustine  

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  

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.  

- Myrtle Auvil  

Real love stories never have endings.  

- Richard Bach  

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.  

- Richard Bandler  

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.  

- Roland Barthes  

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.  

- Orlando A Battista  

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

Love is the river of life in the world.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

Honor the ocean of love.  

- George De Benneville  

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.  

- Saint Bernard  

Love is the fulfilling of the Law.  

- Bible  

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.  

- 1 Corinthians, Bible  

This is my commandment, that ye love one another.  

- Jesus, In John 15:12, Bible  

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  

- Roman 13:9, Bible  

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love...  

- 1 John 3:14, Bible  

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.  

- 1 John, Bible  

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.  

- Bible  

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.  

- John 13:35, Bible  

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.  

- Philippians 1:9, Bible  

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.  

- Bible  

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.  

- Bible  

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

- Smiley Blanton  

The only victory over love is flight.  

- Napoleon Bonaparte  

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.  

- Elizabeth Bowen  

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.  

- Robert Bridges  

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.  

- Doctor Joyce Brothers  

Love without attachment is light.  

- Norman O Brown  

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.  

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning  

Who so loves believes the impossible.  

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning  

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.  

- Robert Browning  

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.  

- Jean De La Bruyère  

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.  

- Martin Buber  

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.  

- Buddha  

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.  

- Buddha  

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.  

- Robert Burton  

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.  

- Leo Buscaglia  

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.  

- Leo Buscaglia  

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.  

- Leo Buscaglia  

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.  

- Leo Buscaglia  

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.  

- Samuel Butler  

Who loves, raves.  

- Lord Byron  

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.  

- Amy Carmichael  

True love is the parent of humility.  

- William Ellery Channing  

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.  

- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin  

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.  

- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin  

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.  

- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin  

Love is blind.  

- Geoffrey Chaucer  

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.  

- Gilbert K Chesterton  

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.  

- Gilbert K Chesterton  

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

- Lydia M Child  

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.  

- George Williams Childs  

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.  

- Mary Cholmondeley  

To love a thing means wanting it to live.  

- Confucius  

Love is a friendship set to music.  

- E Joseph Cossman  

Love, THE FEELING, is a fruit of love, the verb.  

- Stephen R Covey  

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.  

- Roy Croft  

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.  

- Jerome Cummings  

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.  

- Alexis Delp  

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.  

- Yogi Desai  

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.  

- Princess of Wales Diana  

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.  

- Charles Dickens  

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

- Benjamin Disraeli  

To fail to love is not to exist at all.  

- Mark Van Doren  

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.  

- Fyodor Dostoevski  

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

- Henry Drummond  

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.  

- Henry Drummond  

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.  

- Henry Drummond  

Love is love's reward.  

- John Dryden  

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  

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.  

- Wayne Dyer  

Love is a better teacher than duty.  

- Albert Einstein  

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.  

- T S Eliot  

He is not a lover who does not love forever.  

- Euripides  

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.  

- Euripides  

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.  

- Irwin Federman  

I don't want to live, I want to love first, and live incidentally.  

- Zelda Fitzgerald  

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.  

- Emmet Fox  

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.  

- Saint Francis of Assisi  

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.  

- Sigmund Freud  

Love, while you are able to love.  

- A Frieligrath  

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

- Erich Fromm  

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.  

- Margaret Fuller  

Where there is love there is life.  

- Mahatma Gandhi  

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.  

- Mahatma Gandhi  

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.  

- Mahatma Gandhi  

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.  

- Mahatma Gandhi  

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.  

- Kahlil Gibran  

We love because it's the only true adventure.  

- Nikki Giovanni  

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

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

- Vincent Van Gogh  

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.  

- Vincent Van Gogh  

The best way to know God is to love many things.  

- Vincent Van Gogh  

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.  

- Edmond and Jules De Goncourt  

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.  

- Rabbi J Gordon  

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  

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.  

- David B Haight  

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.  

- Louise L Hay  

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  

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.  

- Robert Heinlein  

Love is stronger than violence.  

- Hermann Hesse  

Love is like pi, natural, irrational, and very important.  

- Lisa Hoffman  

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.  

- Oliver Wendell Holmes  

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.  

- Oliver Wendell Holmes  

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.  

- Doug Horton  

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.  

- Doug Horton  

Life in abundance comes only through great love.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

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

- Elbert Hubbard  

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]  

- Victor Hugo  

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

- Victor Hugo  

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.  

- Victor Hugo  

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.  

- Victor Hugo  

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.  

- Gerald G Jampolsky  

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.  

- Saint John of the Cross  

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.  

- Franklin P Jones  

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.  

- Erica Jong  

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.  

- Carl Jung  

Love makes everything that is heavy light.  

- Thomas A Kempis  

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.  

- Thomas A Kempis  

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.  

- Martin Luther King Junior  

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.  

- Martin Luther King Junior  

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.  

- Martin Luther King Junior  

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 transform.  

- Jiddu Krishnamurti  

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.  

- R D Laing  

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.  

- William Law  

I shall always be a priest of love.  

- D H Lawrence  

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.  

- Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz  

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 is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.  

- John Lennon  

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.  

- Michael Leunig  

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?  

- Stephen Levine  

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.  

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  

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

- Og Mandino  

Do all things with love.  

- Og Mandino  

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.  

- Og Mandino  

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.  

- Guy De Maupassant  

Love is all you need.  

- Paul Mccartney  

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.  

- George Mcdonald  

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.  

- Karl A Menninger  

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.  

- Karl A Menninger  

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.  

- Stan Mooneyham  

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love  

- Mother Teresa  

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.  

- Mother Teresa  

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.  

- Mother Teresa  

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

- Mother Teresa  

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.  

- Mother Teresa  

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  

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.  

- Peace Pilgrim  

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.  

- Peace Pilgrim  

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  

- Plato  

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.  

- Plato  

Love expands.  

- Hugh Prather  

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.  

- Proverb  

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.  

- Proverb  

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.  

- English Proverb  

A heart that loves is always young.  

- Greek Proverb  

He who is not impatient is not in love.  

- Italian Proverb  

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.  

- Nick Richardson  

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.  

- Rainer Maria Rilke  

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke  

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.  

- Tom Robbins  

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...  

- Franklin D Roosevelt  

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.  

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti  

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.  

- Arthur Rubenstein  

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.  

- Jalal-Uddin Rumi  

The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.  

- Bertrand Russell  

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.  

- George Sand  

If you wish to be loved; Love!  

- Seneca  

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.  

- Ivan Sergeevich  

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.  

- Merle Shan  

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.  

- Sydney Smith  

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.  

- Wolfman Jack Smith  

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.  

- Socrates  

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.  

- Sophocles  

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.  

- Herbert Spencer  

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.  

- Konstantin Stanislavisky  

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.  

- David Steindl-Rast  

Love is stronger than justice.  

- Sting  

What force is more potent than love?  

- Igor Stravinsky  

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?  

- Igor Stravinsky  

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.  

- Karen Sunde  

After the verb ''To Love''...''To Help'' is the most beautiful verb in the world.  

- Bertha Von Suttner  

We live in the world when we love it.  

- Rabindranath Tagore  

Love is the only gold.  

- Lord Alfred Tennyson  

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.  

- Lord Alfred Tennyson  

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.  

- Thich Nhat Hanh  

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.  

- Henry David Thoreau  

There is no remedy for love than to love more.  

- Henry David Thoreau  

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.  

- Brian Tracy  

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.  

- Ralph Waldo Trine  

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love  

- Reverend Dale Turner  

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.  

- Source Unknown  

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.  

- Source Unknown  

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.  

- Source Unknown  

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.  

- Source Unknown  

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.  

- Source Unknown  

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.  

- Source Unknown  

No three words have greater power than I Love You.  

- Source Unknown  

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.  

- Source Unknown  

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.  

- Source Unknown  

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live  

- Source Unknown  

Love is the poetry of the senses.  

- Source Unknown  

Love is the bridge between two hearts.  

- Source Unknown  

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.  

- Source Unknown  

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?  

- Source Unknown  

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.  

- Source Unknown  

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.  

- Source Unknown  

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.  

- Peter Ustinov  

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

- Vincent Van Gogh  

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.  

- A Haiku Verse  

We were two and had but one heart between us.  

- François de Montcorbier Villon  

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.  

- Virgil  

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

- Oscar Wilde  

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.  

- David Wilkerson  

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.  

- Marianne Williamson  

The object of love is to serve, not to win.  

- Woodrow Wilson  

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.  

- Woodrow T Wilson  

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.  

- Jeanette Winterson  

Love the giver more than the gift.  

- Brigham Young  

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.  

- Barbara De Angelis  

Our first and last love is... self-love.  

- Christian Nevell Bovee