The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Thomas a Kempis
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
John Wooden
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Martin Buber
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor W. Adorno
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
Brigitte Bardot
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
Dwight L. Moody
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Welles
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love is a friendship set to music. – Joseph Campbell
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Honore de Balzac
Any time not spent on love is wasted.
Torquato Tasso
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
Erich Fromm
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Duke Ellington
Only do what your heart tells you.
Princess Diana
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
John Galsworthy
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… 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.
Robert A. Heinlein
We love because it’s the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
