“Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe–the open sesame to every soul.” ——Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” ——Albert Einstein
“An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.” ——Harold Loukes
“Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.” ——Libbie Fudim
“Love is smiling on the inside and out.” ——Jennifer Williams
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.” ——1 Corinthians 13:1-3, The Bible
“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.” ——Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What’s so remarkable about Love at first sight? It’s when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.” ——Author Unknown
“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
“And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.” ——Deuteronomy 10:19, The Bible
“Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.” ——Marcia Wieder
“Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God, and he who loves is born of God, and knows God. He who doesn’t love, does not know God, for God is love.” ——John 4:7-8, The Bible
“It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love’s sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward ‘love’ unselfishly for love’s sake.” ——Swami Vivekananda
“Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.” ——Author Unknown
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.” ——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is only by striving for beauty and love in all our relationships, that we can hope to become guardians of our individual and collective futures.” ——Roland Stahler
“Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.” ——Author Unknown
“People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they cannot love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you can’t give it.” ——Andrew Matthews
“Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!” ——Author Unknown
“Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never… never forget it.” ——Curtis Judalet
“Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.” ——Jean Paul Sartre
“Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.” ——Johann Gottfried Von Herder
“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
“Love is a spendthrift, leaves its arithmetic at home, is always in the red.” ——Paul Scherer
“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.” ——A. Edward Newton
“Love laughs at locksmiths.” ——Proverb
“Those who haven’t loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven’t even begun to live.” ——Author Unknown
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.” ——Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” ——E. E. Cummings
“You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” ——Glen Wheeler
“Love rules his kingdom without a sword.” ——Proverb
“It has been said that God’s gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave the world the gift of His dear Son while we were at enmity with Him. Paul says: ‘But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us’ (Rom. 5:8). Therefore, in Him we are freely given all things: redemption, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, peace, hope, wisdom and knowledge.” ——Paul Sadler
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” ——Mark Twain
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” ——Mother Teresa
“Love is the fulfilling of the Law.” ——The Bible
“There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.” ——Victor Robinsoll
“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.” ——Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.” ——Alain de Botton
“We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other.” ——Lucian de Croszonza
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ——The Bible
“Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?” ——Author Unknown
“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” ——Robert Browning
“We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.” ——Whitney Moore, Jr.
“To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.” ——H. L. Mencken
“Love makes everything that is heavy light.” ——Thomas Kempis
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.” ——The Bible
“We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.” ——Ronald David Laing
“You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.” ——Herman Hesse
“A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.” ——Woodrow Wyatt
“Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.” ——Gordon B. Hinckley
“True love is knowing a person’s faults, and loving them even more for them.” ——Mandy Hampton
“I hold it true, whatever befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.” ——Lord Alfred Tennyson
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning’s greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.” ——Author Unknown
“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it.” ——Joan Vinge
“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.” ——Albert Einstein
“To understand your parents’ love bear your own children.” ——Chinese Proverb
“A heart that loves is always young.” ——Greek Proverb
“We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.” ——Dean Koontz
“Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.” ——Leo Buscaglia
“The best way to know God is to love many things.” ——Vincent van Gogh
“No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?” ——Albert Einstein
“I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.” ——John Lennon, letter to Stuart Sutcliffe, circa 1960
“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers of jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” ——St. Aurelius Augustine
“A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.” ——Latin Proverb
“The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.” ——Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” ——C. S. Lewis
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” ——C. S. Lewis
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” ——Vincent van Gogh
“Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.” ——William Shakespeare
“The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self – two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.” ——Pope John Paul II
“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.” ——Jalal ud-Din Rumi
“To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.” ——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“‘True love’ isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially –even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it.” ——William R. Mattox, Jr.
“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
“You can’t force anyone to love you or lend you money.” ——Jewish Proverb
“None love the messenger who brings bad news.” ——Sophocles
“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.” ——Baronne Anne Louise de Staël
“Paradise is always where love dwells.” ——Jean Paul Richter
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” ——Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end!” ——Ancient Proverb
“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” ——Margaret Anderson
“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.” ——Maureen Duffy
“The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard –it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.” ——Edward M. Forster
“A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.” ——Wystan Hugh Auden
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.” ——Vincent van Gogh
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” ——Germaine De Staël
“Love is like a poisonous mushroom — you don’t know if it is the real thing until it is too late.” ——Author Unknown
“These two imparadised in one another’s arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.” ——John Milton
“Love is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.” ——Author Unknown
“Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like nobody’s watching.” ——Author Unknown
“To love a woman, is to know a woman’s wants and her needs without her ever saying a word.” ——A. Jenkins
“Love is not blind, it sees but it doesn’t mind.” ——Rizi Jane Baldon
“Love is friendship set on fire.” ——Jeremy Taylor
“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 Kempis
“It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.” ——George MacDonald
“Love is a great beautifier.” ——Louisa May Alcott
“Love is the best air freshener.” ——Gary Amirault
“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
“Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” ——Barbara de Angelis
“Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.” ——Hannah Arendt
“Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.” ——Aristotle
“Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.” ——Myrtle Auvil
“For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.” ——Francis Bacon
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” ——Henry Ward Beecher
“Love is the river of life in the world.” ——Henry Ward Beecher
“Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.” ——St. Bernard
“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.” ——St. Bernard
“We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love.” ——1 John 3:14, The Bible
“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
“True love is the parent of humility.” ——William Henry Channing
“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
“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
“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