Inspirational Quotes

 On Love

Love and you shall be loved.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Loves possesses not nor would it be possessed;
for love is sufficient unto love.
-Kalil Gibran-

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
-Sophocles-

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
-Mother Teresa-

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth
an age of dull and common life.
-Aphra Behn-

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics.
It just comes - none knows whence - and cannot explain itself.
- Mark Twain-

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
-Harriet Van Horne-

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
-Victor Hugo-

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
-Robert Browning-

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts,
then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-Mother Teresa-

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
-Leo Buscaglia-

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'
-Erich Fromm-

True love brings up everything -
you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
-Jennifer Aniston-

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
-Abraham Lincoln-

We forgive to the extent that we love.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld-

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-Victor Hugo-

The best and most beautiful things in this world
cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller-

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
-Duke Ellington-

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes-

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
-Albert Ellis-

On the last analysis, then, love is life.
Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
-Henry Drummond-

Nothing rules love, and love rules all things.
-Anonymous-

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton-

The love you withhold is the pain you carry.
-The Andromedans-

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon,
but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes-

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
-Kahlil Gibran-

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
-FW Bourdillon-

Respect is love in plain clothes.
-Frankie Byrne-

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste,
it is better that you should leave your work.
-Kahlil Gibran-

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.
It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
-Mother Teresa-

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
-Mother Teresa-

He whom love touches not walks in darkness.
-Plato-

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
-Oscar Wilde-

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
-Leo Buscaglia-

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
-Kahlil Gibran-

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
-Mother Teresa-

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine De Saint-Exupery-

No one's head aches when he is comforting another.
-Unknown-

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
-Mother Theresa-

Two human loves make one divine.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning-

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind
-Henri Frederick Amiel-

Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.
-Zelda Fitzgerald-

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe-

We are each of us angels with only one wing.
And we can only fly by embracing each other.
-Luchiano de Crescenzo-

Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.
-Unknown-

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-

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
-Zora Neale Hurston-

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
-Eva Gabor-

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
-Deepak Chopra-

Who loves a lot, forgives a lot.
-Amado Nervo-

Love gives itself; it is not bought.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
-Albert Einstein-