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Love Quotes
"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to
love, but love in vain."
-Abraham Crowley
"So much of what we know of love we learn at home."
-unknown
"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
-unknown
"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."
-unknown
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together
in the same direction."
-Saint-Exupery
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
-John Donne
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
-Benjamin Franklin
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in
life."
-Joseph Conrad
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
-Christopher Marlowe
"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
-Houssaye
"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
-La Bruyere
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
-Les Miserables
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each
strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
-Lawrence Durrell
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
-La Rochefoucauld
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Thoreau
"Blushing is the color of virtue."
-Diogenes
"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love
each other."
-Leo F. Buscaglia
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
-Dr. Karl Menninger
"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your
wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and
happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."
-Mother Theresa
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray
"Don't forget to love yourself."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love
was never yours to begin with..."
-Unknown
"Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!"
-Unknown
"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes
away."
-Alicia Barnhart
"You call it madness, but I call it love."
-Don Byas
"Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived."
-Unknown
"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes."
-Buddha
"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."
-Unknown
"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less."
-Will Moss
"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest."
-Unknown
"The eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for
love!"
-Margaret Atwood
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the
rules and play from your heart."
-Unknown
"Within you I lose myself
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again."
-Unknown
"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."
-Shakespeare
"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky
would be in the palm of my hand."
-Unknown
"We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where
every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are
flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish
its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives."
-Unknown
"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the
sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand
trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship
is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact.
But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."
-Kaleel Jamison
"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration
of another's personhood."
-Karen Casey
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Theresa
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
-Benjamin Franklin
FRIENDSHIP QUOTES
"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to
love, but love in vain."
-Abraham Crowley
"So much of what we know of love we learn at home."
-unknown
"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
-unknown
"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."
-unknown
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together
in the same direction."
-Saint-Exupery
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
-John Donne
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
-Benjamin Franklin
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in
life."
-Joseph Conrad
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
-Christopher Marlowe
"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
-Houssaye
"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
-La Bruyere
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
-Les Miserables
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each
strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
-Charles Caleb Colton
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
-Lawrence Durrell
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
-La Rochefoucauld
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Thoreau
"Blushing is the color of virtue."
-Diogenes
"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love
each other."
-Leo F. Buscaglia
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
-Dr. Karl Menninger
"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your
wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and
happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."
-Mother Theresa
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray
"Don't forget to love yourself."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love
was never yours to begin with..."
-Unknown
"Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!"
-Unknown
"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes
away."
-Alicia Barnhart
"You call it madness, but I call it love."
-Don Byas
"Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived."
-Unknown
"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes."
-Buddha
"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."
-Unknown
"Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less."
-Will Moss
"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest."
-Unknown
"The eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for
love!"
-Margaret Atwood
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the
rules and play from your heart."
-Unknown
"Within you I lose myself
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again."
-Unknown
"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."
-Shakespeare
"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky
would be in the palm of my hand."
-Unknown
"We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where
every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are
flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish
its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives."
-Unknown
"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the
sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand
trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship
is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact.
But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."
-Kaleel Jamison
"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration
of another's personhood."
-Karen Casey
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Theresa
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
-Benjamin Franklin