love quotes (legends)

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

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

Khalil Gibran 

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine 

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner 

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid 

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Ayn Rand 

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara de Angelis 

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau 

Only do what your heart tells you.

Princess Diana 

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato 

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Benjamin Franklin 

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell 

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Shirley MacLaine 

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Paulo Coelho 

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

Jennifer Aniston 

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard 

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw 

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia 

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Jesus Christ 

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery 

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Andre Breton 

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca 

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Erich Fromm