1. “Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
johann wolfgang von goethe
2. “To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
Eckhart Tolle
3. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
victor hugo
4. “Love recognizes no barriers.”
maya angelou
5. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
robert frost
6. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
elbert hubbard
7. “True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.”
Torquato tasso
8. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”
eleanor roosevelt
9. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
dalai lama
10. “Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.”
dolly parton
11. “We are most alive when we are in love.”
john updike
12. “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”
pearl bailey
13. “Love is fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or bur down your house, you can never tell.”
john crawford
14. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine and man cannot live without love.”
max muller
15. “The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
henry miller
16. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
zora neale hurston
17. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
albert einstein
18. “Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
percy bysshe shelley
20. “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
Ben Hecht
21. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar wilde
22. “Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
theodor w. adorno
23. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss
24. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
Sophocles
25. “Where there is love there is life.”
mahatma gandhi
26. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”
rumi
27. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
aristotle
28. “There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
29. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
robert a. heinlein
30. “Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”
Theodore Roethke
31. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
Loretta young
32. “We can only learn to love by loving.”
iris murdoch
33. “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
h. l. mencken
34. “Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
Vincent van gogh
35. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
voltaire
36. “Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
eva gabor
37. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
henry david thoreau
38. “Life is the first gift, love is the second and understanding the third.”
marge piercy
39. “Love is space and time measured by heart.”
marcel proust
40. “Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
madame de stael
41. “He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
euripides
42. “Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
john galsworthy
43. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidently, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
sarah dessen
44. “Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.”
tom freston
45. “Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”
george jean nathan
46. “Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.”
thomas dewar
47. “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
bette davis
48. “Gifts are temporary and often forgotten; love is forever and always remembered.”
ken poirot
49. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
david viscott
50. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return .”
natalie cole
