Quotes about love

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

Hubbard, Elbert on love
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

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

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."

Hurston, Zora Neale on love   

"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."

Hymn, Bengali on love   

"Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon 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, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on love   

"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on love
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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

Irving, Washington on love
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"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on love
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"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, Jerome K. on love
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"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."

Jerome, St. on love   

"Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life."

Jerrold, Douglas William on love   

"Love, you are eternal like springtime."

Jiminez, Juan Ramon on love   

"Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved."

John of the Cross, St. on love   

"In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone."

John of the Cross, St. on love
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"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

Johnson, Samuel on love
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"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Jones, Franklin P. on love
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"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."

Jong, Erica on love
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"Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul."

Joyce, James on love
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"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."

Judalet, Curtis on love
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"Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

Jung, Carl on love   

"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."

Karr, Alphonse on love
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"How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love."

Kempis, Thomas on love
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"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down."

Kempis, Thomas on love   

"Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless."

Kempis, Thomas on love   

"Love makes everything that is heavy light."

Kempis, Thomas on love
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"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."

Kempis, Thomas on love
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"Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries."

Kent, Sister Corita on love   

"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on love
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"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on love
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"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish."

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love   

"What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love