Love Quotes
For use in your love notes . . .
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
~ William Shakespeare
“All you need is love.”
~ John Lennon
“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
~ Agnes Repplier
“Making romantic gestures is watering the flower of your relationship.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“Romance is a state of mind. It is also a state of being.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“Romance is the language of love.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“Romance is the process. Love is the goal.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“Romance is about the little things.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“If your relationship were a painting, what would it look like?”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“Become an artist of your relationship.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“Because romantic moments are charged with emotion they creative positive memories that last a lifetime.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“To be loving is to be creative. To be creative is to express love.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“Creating a loving relationship is the most difficult, time-consuming and complicated challenge you will face in your entire life.”
~ Gregory J.P. Godek
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
“What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It’s we who make it complicated.”
~ by Leo Buscaglia
“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”
~ Leo Buscaglia
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person,but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
~ by Sam Keen
“If thou be loved—love!”
~ Seneca
“Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful.”
~ Barbara de Angelis
“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”
~ Fr. Jerome Cummings
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~ William Shakespeare
“While loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
~ by Lao Tzu
“Some pray to marry the man they love,
my prayer will somewhat vary:
I humbly pray to Heaven above
that I love the man I marry.”
~ Rose Stokes
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.”
~ by Henry Ward Beecher
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
-Saint-Exupery
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
~ Christopher Marlowe
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
~ Les Miserables
“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”
~ Leo Buscaglia
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
~ Thoreau
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
~ Mother Theresa
“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
~ Shakespeare
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
~ G. K. Chesterton
“Love is not blind – It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.”
~ Will Moss
“You call it madness, but I call it love.”
~ Don Byas
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
~ William M. Thackeray
“Don’t forget to love yourself.”
~ Soren Kierkegaard
“Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
~ Dr. Karl Menninger
“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”
~ Jerome Cummings
“Where there is love there is life.”
~ Gandhi
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.”
-Charles Caleb Colton
“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”
-Lawrence Durrell
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
~ La Rochefoucauld
“Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.”
~ Houssaye
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher
“Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful.”
~Barbara de Angelis
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
-St. Augustine
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
~ Alexander Smith
“The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.”
~ by Josiah G. Holland
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
~ La Rochefoucauld
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
~ Stendhal
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
~ Diogenes
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
~ Ingrid Bergman
“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”
~ George Jean Nathan
“And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, don’t let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.”
~ Philip Robison
“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
~ Pascal
“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
~ Michael Leunig
“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”
~ Victor Hugo
“Love is letting go of fear.”
~ Gerald Jamolsky
“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”
~ Lao Tzu
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.”
~ François de La Rouchefoucauld
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
~ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
~ Germaine De Stael
“The life and love we create is the life and love we live.”
~ Leo Buscaglia
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
~ 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient.”
There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.”
~ Leo Buscaglia
“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
~ Erich Fromm
“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.”
~ by George Sand
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness. A tender look which becomes a habit.”
~ Peter Ustinov
“Love is always bestowed as a gift –
freely, willingly, and without expectation….
We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.”
~ Leo Buscaglia ~
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
~ Victor Hugo
“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.”
~ Elbert Hubbard
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
~ Janos Arany
“Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.”
~ Leo Buscaglia
”A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”
~Woodrow Wyatt
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”
~ Bertrand Russell
“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
~ Madame De Staël
“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
~ Henry Miller
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
~ Leo Tolstoy
“Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.”
~ Voltaire
“Love’s a thing that’s never out of season.”
~ Barry Cornwall
“A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life”
~ Oscar Wilde
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
~ Robert Frost
“Love is friendship set on fire.”
~ Eva Burrows
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.”
~Erich Fromm~
“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
~ Ami Carmichael
