Love & Romance

Not the greeting-card version. The love quotes that survive on this page come from people who thought hard about what love actually is — Rumi's longing, Gibran's restraint, Shakespeare's madness, Austen's tenderness of heart. Forty of the collection's finest on the subject that has generated more sentences than any other.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. — Rumi
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Rumi
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Kahlil Gibran
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. — Tony Robbins
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.
Tony Robbins
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. — Carl Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking.
Carl Jung
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. — Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. — Helen Keller
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. — Nelson Mandela
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
Nelson Mandela
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. — Albert Camus
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
Albert Camus
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. — Sophocles
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Sophocles
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. — Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
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 transformed. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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 transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. — Leo Tolstoy
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. — Jane Austen
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Tennyson
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. — Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
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