Love quotes
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
– George Sand
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
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
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
– Euripides
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
– Saint Basil
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
– Audrey Hepburn
Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I’m tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
– Johnny Weir
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.
– Zoe Kravitz
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
– Bruce Lee
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
– Steve Jobs
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
– William Blake
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
– Bradley Whitford
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
– Oscar Wilde
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
– Jenn Proske
I love you more than my own skin.
– Frida Kahlo
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
– Denis Waitley
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
– Menachem Begin
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
– William Shakespeare
In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
– Kina Grannis
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent – a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident – that is very sexy – but at the same time, he’s very kind to people.
– Nicole Scherzinger
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
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
– Satchel Paige
If music be the food of love, play on.
– William Shakespeare
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
– Naveen Jain
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
– James E. Faust
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
– Mother Teresa
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
– Sai Baba
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
– Saint Augustine
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
– Jimmy Dean
True love stories never have endings.
– Richard Bach
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
– Lord Byron
Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.
– Joel Osteen
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
– Julia Child
My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.
– RJ Mitte
Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.
– Giada De Laurentiis
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
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
– Max Muller
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
– Pelé
True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
– Ricardo Montalban
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
– Alan Furst
Football is unconditional love.
– Tom Brady
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
– John Wooden
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
– Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.
– Buffalo Bill
Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.
– Mario Teguh
We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.
– Sheena Easton
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
– Bernie Siegel
Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.
– Dylan Lauren
You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.
– Christina Perri
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
– Bryant H. McGill
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
– Barack Obama
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
– Derek Jeter
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
– Audrey Hepburn
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
– Josh Billings
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
– Jennifer Aniston
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
– Stevie Wonder
I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
– Nicholas Sparks
I love natural beauty, and I think it’s your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.
– Marina and the Diamonds
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
– Arthur Rubinstein
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
– Evel Knievel
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
– Lou Holtz
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn’t matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
– Domhnall Gleeson
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I absolutely love spending time with my family.
– Kevin Alejandro
A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.
– Missy Franklin
Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.
– Celine Dion
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
– Stendhal
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
– Bernie Siegel
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
– Dalai Lama
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
– Albert Schweitzer
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
– Stacy London
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
– Oscar Wilde
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
– Khalil Gibran
I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don’t fall in love as many times as you think you’re going to. And then when you do, it’s really special; it’s really important.
– Julianne Moore
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
– Pietro Aretino
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
– Ogden Nash
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
– Sophia Loren
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
– Petrarch
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
– William Shakespeare
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.
– Kevin DeYoung
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
– Jack Layton