Teach only love for that is what you are.
~ A Course In Miracles ~

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
~ Alfred Adler ~

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
~ Nelson Algren ~

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

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 is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
~ Louis Aragon ~

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.
~ Jean Anouilh Ardele ~

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 ~

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.
~ Ti-Grace Atkinson ~

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 or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
~ St. Augustine ~

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 ~

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
~ Pearl Bailey ~

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 ~

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
~ Julian Barnes ~

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
~ Lynda Barry ~

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
~ Charles Baudelaire ~

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
~ Ernest Becker ~

Love is the river of life in the world.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Honor the ocean of love.
~ George De Benneville ~

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]
~ Bible ~

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]
~ Bible ~

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]
~ Bible ~

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
~ William Blake ~

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
~ Marguerite Gardiner Blessington ~

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
~ Paul Bourget ~

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
~ Andre Breton ~

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

All the little emptiness of love!
~ Rupert Brooke ~

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

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
~ Lord Byron ~

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
~ Italo Calvino ~

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
~ Truman Capote ~

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
~ Thomas Carlyle ~

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

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.
~ Pat Carroll ~

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
~ Catullus ~

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
~ David Chambless ~

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin ~

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

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 ~

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.
~ Melanie Clark ~

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
~ Charles Caleb Colton ~

Love is a tyrant sparing none.
~ Pierre Corneille ~

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.
~ Stephen R. Covey ~

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
~ Joan Crawford ~

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.
~ Richard Crawshaw ~

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
~ Quentin Crisp ~

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

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.
~ Frank Dane ~

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 ~

I adore him... I have never been so happy. I have real love.
~ Princess of Wales Diana ~

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
~ Baba Dioum ~

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
~ John Donne ~

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
~ Lord Drewar ~

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

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
~ John Dryden ~

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
~ Du Coeur ~

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
~ Maureen Duffy ~

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.
~ Marguerite Duras ~

All mankind loves a lover.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

We always come back to our first love.
~ Etienne ~

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.
~ Brian Ferry ~

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald ~

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
~ Edward Flaherty ~

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
~ Emmet Fox ~

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
~ Sigmund Freud ~

Love, while you are able to love.
~ A. Frieligrath ~

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~ Erich Fromm ~

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
~ John Gay ~

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 ~

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
~ Louis Ginsberg ~

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

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

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
~ Baltasar Gracian ~

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
~ Germaine Greer ~

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 final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
~ Novalis Hardenberg ~

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
~ Louise L. Hay ~

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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 and a cough cannot be hid.
~ George Hebert ~

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.
~ Katharine Hepburn ~

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
~ Johann Gottfried Von Herder ~

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
~ Nick Hertl ~

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.
~ Mangnu Hirschfield ~

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 ~

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
~ Doug Horton ~

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~

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

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.
~ Bengali Hymn ~

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~

Love, you are eternal like springtime.
~ Juan Ramon Jiminez ~

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 ~

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 ~

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 ~

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
~ Kahlil Kibran ~

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld ~

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld ~

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 ~

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

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
~ Stephen Levine ~

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 Lokes ~

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
~ Clare Boothe Luce ~

Love is inseparable from knowledge.
~ St. Macarius of Egypt ~

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
~ Anna Magnani ~

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
~ Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon ~

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
~ Sir Thomas Malory ~

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

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
~ Katherine Mansfield ~

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
~ Michael Garrett Marino ~

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 ~

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
~ H. L. Mencken ~

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
~ Karl A. Menninger ~

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

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

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore ~

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
~ Hannah More ~

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 ~

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
~ Iris Murdoch ~

Love is a friendship caught on fire.
~ Northern Exposure ~

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
~ Samuel Osgood ~

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
~ Mark Overby ~

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
~ Ovid ~

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
~ Cesare Pavese ~

Speak low if you speak love.
~ Don Pedro ~

Love laughs at locksmiths.
~ Proverb ~

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
~ English Proverb ~

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
~ French Proverb ~

He who is not impatient is not in love.
~ Italian Proverb ~

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
~ Mary Roberts Rhinehart ~

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

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.
~ Jean Paul Richter ~

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau ~

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.
~ Kurt Russell ~

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
~ Francoise Sagan ~

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
~ May Sarton ~

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
~ Jean Paul Satre ~

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
~ Olive Schreiner ~

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
~ Erich Segal ~

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 ~

Love and stoplights can be cruel.
~ Sesame Street ~

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
~ William Shakespeare ~

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
~ William Shakespeare ~

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 ~

All fair in love and war.
~ Francis Edward Smedley ~

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

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
~ Socrates ~

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

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
~ Robert Southey ~

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.
~ David Steindl-Rast ~

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
~ Anna Strong ~

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
~ Karen Sunde ~

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
~ Frank Tebbets ~

Love is the only gold.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson ~

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
~ St. Theresa of Lisieux ~

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
~ Thomas Traherne ~

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
~ Rev. Dale Turner ~

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.
~ Source Unknown ~

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
~ Source Unknown ~

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

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.
~ Source Unknown ~

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!
~ Source Unknown ~

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.
~ Source Unknown ~

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.
~ Source Unknown ~

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

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
~ John Updike ~

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 ~

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
~ Sid Vicious ~

We were two and had but one heart between us.
~ Franois de Montcorbier Villon ~

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
~ Judith Viorst ~

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.
~ Mae West ~

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away
~ Kim Wilde ~

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
~ William Carlos Williams ~

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry
~ Bruce Willis ~

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
~ Sandy Wilson ~

The object of love is to serve, not to win.
~ Woodrow Wilson ~

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
~ Woodrow Wyatt ~

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
~ Douglas Yates ~

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
~ William Butler Yeats ~

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
~ Henny Youngman ~

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.
~ Gary Zukav ~