Top 100 Love Quotes

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The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

2

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

3

Your heart is my piñata.

4

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.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the ...5

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

6

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

8

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

9

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

10

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for ...11

In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight

12

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

13

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

14

To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

15

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

16

I need you because I love you.

17

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

18

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

19

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

20

How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you've done your job because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.

21

Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to.

22

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another ...23

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

24

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

25

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

26

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

27

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

28

Vengeance is disappointing, always.

29

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

30

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

31

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

32

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

33

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

34

Find me now. Before someone else does.

35

Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.

36

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

37

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

38

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

39

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

40

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

41

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

42

Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art—inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart— builder of every home—kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love.

43

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

44

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

45

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

46

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

47

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

48

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

49

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

50

In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.

51

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

52

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

53

Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.

54

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

55

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

56

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.

57

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.

58

I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.

59

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

60

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

61

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

62

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

63

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

64

Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.

65

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

66

From an endless dream we have come. In an endless dream we are living. To an endless dream we shall return.

67

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

68

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

69

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

70

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

71

Truth without compassion is Cruelty.

72

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

73

Love has the power to change everything.

74

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

75

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

76

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

77

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

78

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

79

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

80

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

81

A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.

82

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

83

Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.

84

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

85

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

86

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

87

I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

88

Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.

89

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

90

Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

91

'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy.

92

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

93

Suffering is overated.

94

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

95

Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried

96

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

97

I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.

98

I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.

99

Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

100

Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.

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