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love Quotes (78)

Mind & Emotion Β· 66 authors

Quotes on the depth and many forms of love. Warm reflections on caring for people and life itself.

Featured Quote

β€œIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”

β€” Igor Stravinsky

Quotes 78

β€œYou want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzscheattractionpretense
β€œLove a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.”
Fyodor Dostoevskylovesin
β€œAbsence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
Benjamin Franklinabsencepresence
β€œIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”
Igor Stravinskycreationlove
β€œA mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.”
Arthur Helpsadmirationpity
β€œMore than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
John Donneletterskisses
β€œI flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.”
Publius Ovidius Nasopursuitdesire
β€œThe strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.”
Oscar Wildewomenstrength
β€œTo fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”
Bess Myersonlovefalling in love
β€œLove grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.”
Elbert Hubbardlovegiving
β€œTread lightly, she is near under the snow. Speak gently, she can hear. The daisies grow.”
Oscar Wildegrieftenderness
β€œLove: Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that throb as one.”
E.F.J. von Munch Bellinghausenlovesouls
β€œIt is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.”
Muriel Sparkloverepentance
β€œOpen rebuke is better than secret love.”
Russian Proverbhonestyrebuke
β€œBitterness imprisons life; love releases it.”
Harry Emerson Fosdickbitternesslove
β€œWe pardon to the extent that we love.”
FranΓ§ois de La Rochefoucauldforgivenesslove
β€œWhenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”
Mahatma Gandhiloveconflict
β€œLove ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.”
Denis de Rougemontlovegod
β€œHe who cannot love must learn to flatter.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goetheloveflattery
β€œHe who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.forgivenesslove
β€œLove is not love until love is vulnerable.”
Theodore Roethkelovevulnerability
β€œLove is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
Vincent van Goghloveeternity
β€œImmature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'”
Erich Frommlovematurity
β€œLove isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”
Mae Westloveemotion
β€œBeauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.”
Aldous Huxleybeautywine
β€œFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
George Gordon Byronfriendshiplove
β€œLove is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
Paulo Coelholovetrap
β€œA true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”
Ralph W. Sockmanlovedebt
β€œBlood has to circulate from head to foot; Love has to circulate from high to low.”
Sri Sathya Sai Bababloodlove
β€œDo not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
Mother Teresalovegenuine
β€œHow bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!”
Sigmund Freudloveboldness
β€œOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russelllovecaution
β€œLove is more afraid of change than destruction.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschelovechange
β€œTo learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.”
Anonymouslearningteaching
β€œLove is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
Henry Louis Menckenloveimagination
β€œLove is the only kind of fire which is never covered by insurance.”
Anonymouslovefire
β€œAll lovers swear more performance than they are able.”
William Shakespearelovepromise
β€œLove is not singular except in syllable.”
Marvin Taylorloveplural
β€œLove is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotlelovesoul
β€œLove is the ultimate expression of the will to live.”
Tom Wolfelovelife
β€œLove is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
Erich Frommloveexistence
β€œLove means to commit yourself without guarantee.”
Anne Campbelllovecommitment
β€œLove looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
Josh Billingsloveenvy
β€œWhen one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.”
Ethiopian Proverbloveperception
β€œLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries; without them humanity cannot survive.”
Dalai Lamalovecompassion
β€œWhere love reigns the impossible may be attained.”
Indian Proverblovepossibility
β€œPure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.”
Peace Pilgrimloveselflessness
β€œIntense love does not measure; it just gives.”
Mother Teresalovegiving
β€œWe are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
Titus Lucretius Carusunitylove
β€œLove is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
Erich Frommlovefaith