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

love quotes (legends)

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde 

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson 

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton 

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews 

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

John Lennon 

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt 

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

George Edward Moore 

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Henry Miller 

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan 

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken 

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Lao Tzu 

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh 

Love is a friendship set to music.

Joseph Campbell 

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond 

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran 

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Leo Buscaglia 

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 

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

J. D. Salinger 

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno

love quotes (legends)

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Stendhal

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston 

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

George Eliot

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert 

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke 

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe 

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde 

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo 

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Friedrich Nietzsche 

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens 

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Andre Breton 

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost 

First love is only a

 little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw 

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

John Lennon 

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis 

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

William Shakespeare 

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.