“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ——Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.” ——Author Unknown
“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.” ——St. Jerome
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” ——George Sand
“Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful.” ——Author Unknown
“Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.” ——W. T. Ussery
“A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.” ——Frank A. Clark
“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” ——Aphra Behn
“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.” ——Maulana Jalalu’ddin Rumi
“I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.” ——Ivan Sergeevich
“A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.” ——Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.” ——Williams Childs
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ——Mignon McLaughlin
“Love’s pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.” ——A Haiku Verse
“Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.” ——David Pratt
“Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.” ——Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.” ——Dean Koontz
“Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? O miser, It is cheap at that price!” ——Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali
“Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you — out of love — takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.” ——Dag Hammarskjold
“Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.” ——J. C. Powys
“Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.” ——Gloria Gaither
“What the heart gives away is never gone … It is kept in the hearts of others.” ——Robin St. John
“If you wish to be loved; Love!” ——Seneca
“All’s fair in love and war.” ——Francis Edwards
“True love stories never have endings.” ——Author Unknown
“Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.” ——Jerome K. Jerome
“Love your parents and your children will have loving grandparents.” ——Stephen Ramjewan
“Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.” ——Alexis Delp
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” ——Dorothy Parker
“Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.” ——Ralph Waldo Trine
“Live on Christ’s love while ye are here, and all the way.” ——Samuel Rutherford
“Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.” ——Gloria Gaither
“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.” ——Author Unknown
“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 Gustav Jung
“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.” ——George Jean Nathan
“It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.” ——Irish Proverb
“A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.” ——Richard Dehmel
“Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.” ——Lamartine
“The happiest moments in life is to love and to be loved.” ——Moulie Gibril
“As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you.” ——Karen Clodfelder
“Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you’re loved, needed, and accepted.” ——Rena Harmon
“Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.” ——Ralph Connor
“The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.” ——Deepak Chopra
“In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.” ——John Henry Newman
“Love is a beautiful thing that can be created by a person with a pure heart, Love is also indestructible when you have achieved it….” ——Bobby Mirassol
“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.” ——Martin Buber
“Truth and Love usually come together.” ——Gary Amirault
“Measure not God’s love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.” ——Richard Sibbes
“If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.” ——N. P. Willis
“For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love – this is an old rule.” ——The Dhammapada
“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
“Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.” ——Ted Rall
“Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.” ——Ken Keyes
“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.” ——Philippians 1:9, The Bible
“At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.” ——Michael Dorris
“Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.” ——Proverb
“I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another.” ——Theodore M. Hesburgh
“Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.” ——Virgil
“An old man loved is winter with flowers.” ——Edgar Z. Friedenberg
“I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity… I didn’t feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not–more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.” ——Beverly Sills
“We’ve got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!” ——Ken Keyes
“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.” ——Donald Robert Perry Marquis
“Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful — a thought that is love.” ——Mary Manin Morrissey
“One forgives to the degree that one loves.” ——Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
“At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.” ——Nathan C. Schaeffer
“Together, we are the unchanging staff upon which all the other notes are strewn, sometimes in harmony, and else dissidence, but always in a beautiful key.” ——Julie Rearick
“People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.” ——Douglas Yates
“I self destruct every relationship so that I don’t get hurt… but in truth I just hurt myself worse in the long run.” ——Author Unknown
“When I saw you I was afraid to meet you. When I met you I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you.” ——Author Unknown
“Love – THE FEELING – is a fruit of love, the verb.” ——Stephen R. Covey
“Kindness is the life’s blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love … Kindness is good will. Kindness says, ‘I want you to be happy.’ Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.” ——Randolph Ray
“The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one’s wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great –quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.” ——D. H. Lawrence
“In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.” ——St. John of the Cross
“But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.” ——James Grover Thurber
“Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.” ——Bob Phillips
“Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love that we double our being: It is by love that we approach God.” ——Aimee Martin
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” ——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.” ——Novalis Hardenberg
“Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.” ——Adel Bestavros
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.” ——La Rochefoucauld
“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’
It’s not their style to be so bold.
Some people never say those words: ‘I love you’
But, like a child, they’re longing to be told.” ——Paul Simon
“Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.” ——Stan Mooneyham
“Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.” ——Houssaye
“On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.” ——Isha McKenzie-Mavinga
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” ——Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
“If I love you, what business is it of yours?” ——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.” ——Sir Rabindranath Tagore
“Love is that to life, what wind is to a windmill.” ——Kazi Shams
“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” ——Fulton J. Sheen
“Would you rather be with the one you love or the one who loves you?” ——Rechell
“Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.” ——Nick Richardson
“No love, no friendship
Can cross the path of our destiny
Without leaving some mark on it forever.” ——Francois Mauriac
“Love gives eyes to see what the eye without love can’t see.” ——Kazi Shams