Love Quotes (legends)

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde 

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marilyn Monroe 

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides 

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran 

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi 

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Eminem 

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner 

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley 

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Richard Bach 

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha 

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Albert Einstein 

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa 

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa 

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Teresa 

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Keith Sweat 

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa 

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.

Ann Landers 

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Stevie Wonder 

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde 

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Mother Teresa 

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Mother Teresa 

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Claude Chabrol 

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich 

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

Khalil Gibran 

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu 

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Maya Angelou 

I know of only one 

duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus 

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Thomas Merton