Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
—William Law (1686–1761) English Clergyman
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
—Yiddish Proverb
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
—Agatha Christie (1890–1976) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! Oh that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
Love makes everything that is heavy light.
—Thomas a Kempis (1379–1471) German Religious Priest, Writer
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
—Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher
Love is all you need.
—Paul McCartney (b.1942) English Pop Singer, Songwriter
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand.
—Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) Dutch Philosopher, Theologian
With thee all toils are sweet; each clime hath charms; earth—sea alike—our world within our arms!
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
—Margaret Atwood (b.1939) Canadian Writer, Poet, Critic
True love is the most enduring of all of life’s worldly possessions, never tarnishing over time, but ever to remain bright and brilliant in the light of love.
—Unknown
Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
That’s what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that’s where it is.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American Novelist, Playwright
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
—Barbara De Angelis (b.1951) American Self-Help Author
Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?
—Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) English Novelist
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Love rarely overtakes, it mostly comes to meet us.
—Wilhelm Stekel (1868–1940) Austrian Physician, Psychologist
The more you love, the more you can love – and the more intensely you love? Nor is there any limit on how many you can love? If a person had time enough, he could love all that majority who are decent and just.
—Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, ‘Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.’ For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom? Life is not a holiday but an education? One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
—Barbara Jordan (1936–96) American Lawyer, Educator, Politician
You know what I love, sweetheart? The thoughts that used to send us into deep depression—these same thoughts, once understood, send us into laughter.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
They stood there knowing each other well and each on the whole willing to accept the satisfaction of knowing as a compensation for the inconvenience—whatever it might be—of being known.
—Henry James (1843–1916) American-born British Novelist, Writer
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
—Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Italian Monk, Founder of the Franciscan Order
Our first love, and last love is self-love.
—Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
—Buddhist Teaching
You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
—Neale Donald Walsch (b.1943) American Spiritual Writer
You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
—Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) Spanish Educator, Philosopher, Author
Nothing is impossible for pure love.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
A man loved by a beautiful and virtuous woman, carries with him a talisman that renders him invulnerable; every one feels that such a one’s life has a higher value than that of others.
—George Sand (1804–76) French Novelist, Dramatist
The poets judged like philosophers when they feigned love to be blind.—How often do we see in a woman what our judgment and taste approve, and yet feel nothing of love toward her; how often what they both condemn, and yet feel a great deal.
—George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746–1816) British Nobleman, Politician
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849) Irish Novelist, Writer
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
—Common Proverb
When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) American Playwright, Poet, Novelist
Open your heart and take us in,
Love – love and me.
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) English Poet, Critic, Editor
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.
—Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American Poet, Educator
All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
—Vernon Howard (1918–92) American Spiritual Teacher, Philosopher
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
—Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783–1842) French Writer
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
No three words have greater power than I Love You.
—Indian Proverb