Love- A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi
- All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. — Eleanor Farjeon
- A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. — Woodrow Wyatt
- Amoris vulnus idem sanat, qui facit. [The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.] - Syrus Publilius
- A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. — John Wesley
- Hate the sin and love the sinner. — Mahatma Gandhi
- "I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. — Osho
- It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. — Agnes Repplier
- "Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy —in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other." —Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
- Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. — Franklin Jones
- Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. — Goethe
- Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. — Mother Teresa
- Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. — Eleanor Farjeon
- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - Matt Groening
- Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa
- Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. — Helen Keller
- Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. — T.S. Eliot
- Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken. — William Shakespeare
- Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. — C. S. Lewis
- Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. — Johnny Rotten
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." — Robert Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land
- Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday. - Noelle, Age 7 (participant in a survey of 4-8 year olds asked to define love)
- Love me for love's sake, that evermore thou may'st love on, through love's eternity'. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again. — Edwin Robinson
- Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. — William Shakespeare
- Love's very pain is sweet. —Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Love your neighbor as yourself. — Jesus Christ
- Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence. — Carl Sandburg
- Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance. — Oscar Wilde
- Only through love can we obtain communion with God. — Albert Schweitzer
- Raising a child is the highest form of love a human being can experience. — Marsha Rock
- Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. — Anita Brookner
- Self-love seems so often unrequited. — Anthony Powell
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo
- The greatest pleasure is love. — William Temple
- The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. — Eden Ahbez
- The laws of love are written in the heart of every human being by the hand of God. — Anonymous
- The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness. — Kabir
- This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love. — Gerald Massey
- In the following passage from the King James Version of the Christian Holy Bible the word Charity is used as a translation of the Latin Caritas, and the original Greek Agape, which were words for Love, and used to denote the highest and most self-transcending forms of Love.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
- To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides. — David Viscott
- True Love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths… —Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church. — William Phelps
- We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- When the evening of this life comes, we shall be judged on Love. — St. John of the Cross
- When two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. — I Ching
- Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles. — Willa Cather
- To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (from Love in the Time of Cholera)
- There is nothing more painful than seeing someone you love loving someone else. But there is nothing more rewarding that seeing two people you love loving each other. - J.H. Li
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