Love Quotes

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

My love, do not ask of me the love I once had for you.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

We live in the world when we love it.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

They are us.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

She walks in beauty, like the night.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

You are your best thing.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Work is love made visible.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

It is because I dive into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say 'I love you' right out loud.

Give me your hand and we will dance; give me your hand and you will love me.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that: it lights the whole sky.

Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence and soul.

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Where there is love there is life.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

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.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

To be parent and child means only this: in this life, you watch their back recede further and further away.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

A priceless treasure is easy to find; a heart that truly loves is hard to find.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Destroy the mosque, destroy the temple, destroy whatever you please — but do not break a human heart, for God dwells there.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

My heart has become capable of every form: a pasture for gazelles, a convent for Christian monks, a temple for idols.

I follow the Way of Love, and where love's caravan turns along the road, that is my religion and my faith.

O God, if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Intellect ties you down and risks nothing, but love dissolves all risks and puts everything at stake.

We love the created for the sake of the Creator.

There are other sorrows in this world besides the sorrows of love.

Do not ask of me, my love, the love I once had for you.

Like a silkworm weaving her house with love from her marrow, and dying in her body's threads.

What love can be purer and more noble than love of one's own country?

Even kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The finest memories are those where we have helped someone without expecting anything in return.

Give your love to all, trust in the team to which you are joined, and do not do wrong to others for your own self-gratification.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

To love or have loved, that is enough.

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life. You and only you are accountable for what you extend and give to others.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love.

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Real living is living for others.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Understanding someone's suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

They alone live who live for others.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves — say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Love is merely a madness.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

I will not play at tug o' war. I'd rather play at hug o' war.