Love Quotations | Page 2

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

We can only learn to love by loving.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

If music be the food of love, play on.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Love is the only gold.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Only dumb people are happy.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

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

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

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.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.