1. “Love
takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live
within.”
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
2. “Love yourself first and everything
else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in
this world.”
— Lucille Ball
— Lucille Ball
3. “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
— Rainer Maria Rilke
4. “The most important thing in life is to
learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
— Morrie Schwartz
5. “If I know what love is, it is because
of you.”
— Herman Hesse
— Herman Hesse
6. “I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft
— Roy Croft
7. “Love is a friendship set to music.”
— Joseph Campbell
— Joseph Campbell
8. “We are shaped and fashioned by what we
love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. “When we are in love we seem to
ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
— Blaise Pascal
— Blaise Pascal
10.
“The way to love
anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
11.
“It takes courage to
love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love
generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they
shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive
nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
— Eleanor Roosevelt
12.
“Don’t brood. Get on
with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
— Leo Buscaglia
— Leo Buscaglia
13.
“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
— Rumi
14.
“Love is of all
passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and
the senses.”
— Lao Tzu
— Lao Tzu
15.
“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
— Julia Roberts
16.
“At the touch of love
everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
— Plato
17.
“If I had a flower
for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson
— Alfred Tennyson
18.
“The best and most
beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt
with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
— Helen Keller
19.
“Keep love in your
heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
20.
“The only thing we
never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is
love.”
— Henry Miller
— Henry Miller
21.
“Lots of people want
to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the
bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
— Oprah Winfrey
— Oprah Winfrey
22.
“You know you’re in
love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than
your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss
— Dr. Seuss
23.
“Life without love is
like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran
— Khalil Gibran
24.
“’Tis better to have
loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
25.
“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
— Vincent Van Gogh
26.
“The
art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
— Albert Ellis
— Albert Ellis
27.
“If
you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
— Benjamin Franklin
— Benjamin Franklin
28.
“Love
does not dominate; it cultivates.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29.
“I
have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
30.
“We
are most alive when we’re in love.”
— John Updike
— John Updike
31.
“The
love we give away is the only love we keep.”
— Elbert Hubbard
— Elbert Hubbard
32.
“The
giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
— Eleanor Roosevelt
33.
“The
more one judges, the less one loves.”
— Honore de Balzac
— Honore de Balzac
34.
“A
kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become
superfluous.”
— Ingrid Bergman
— Ingrid Bergman
35.
“Being
deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives
you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
— Lao Tzu
36.
“The
deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not
the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed
with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find
it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are
sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are
weeping for that which has been your delight.”
— Kahlil Gibran
— Kahlil Gibran
37.
“Love
is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
— Andre Breton
— Andre Breton
38.
“Love
is a better teacher than duty.”
— Albert Einstein
— Albert Einstein
39.
“True
love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get
your ears checked.”
— Erich Segal
— Erich Segal
40.
“Every
person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful
for the right one.”
— Unknown
— Unknown
41.
“Love
is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
— James Thurber
— James Thurber
42.
“The
best proof of love is trust.”
— Joyce Brothers
— Joyce Brothers
43.
“A
woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— Honore de Balzac
— Honore de Balzac
44.
“For
small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
45.
“Fortune
and love favor the brave.”
— Ovid
— Ovid
46.
“Love
is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
— David Wilkerson
— David Wilkerson
47.
“Loving
people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same
world.”
— Wayne Dyer
— Wayne Dyer
48.
“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.”
— Anaïs Nin
— Anaïs Nin
49.
“Darkness
cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate:
only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
50.
“If
you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I
never have to live without you.”
— A. A. Milne
— A. A. Milne
51.
“All
you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
— Charles Schulz
— Charles Schulz
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