Love Quotes: Celebrating the Power, Beauty, and Depth of Love
A Tapestry of Love
Love is a universal language that transcends boundaries, cultures, and time. It is a profound and complex emotion that enriches our lives, brings us joy, and connects us to one another on a deep level. In this article, we celebrate the power, beauty, and depth of love through a collection of quotes that capture its essence and inspire us to cherish and nurture the love in our lives.
Love takes many forms – romantic love, love for family and friends, love for humanity, and even love for oneself. It is a force that can heal wounds, ignite passion, and bring about profound transformations. Love teaches us compassion, empathy, and the importance of connection. It reminds us of our shared humanity and the capacity for kindness and understanding.
Words of Love: Quotes to Celebrate the Power of Love
Throughout history, poets, philosophers, and individuals from all walks of life have sought to express the beauty and depth of love through their words. Their quotes evoke emotions, stir the soul, and remind us of the profound impact that love has on our lives. Below, we present a collection of inspiring love quotes that will warm your heart, ignite your spirit, and remind you of the incredible power of love.
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
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.
I’m having fun. I’m being myself. I’m doing what I love. That’s all that matters.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
With our love, we could save the world.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.
The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Love is blind.
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
There is no love of life without despair of life.
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.
A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving.
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
If you wished to be loved, love.
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
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.
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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.
We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, ‘Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?’
I love sleep; it’s my favorite.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
I want to love. I want to enjoy life.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
All mankind love a lover.
I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
I’ll always love the time I spent making ‘Black and White.’
If music be the food of love, play on.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.
Where there is love there is life.
I am overwhelmed by the love showered on me by my fans.
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
I love travelling; going to different parts of the world and making new friends is something that I really enjoy.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Love without conversation is impossible.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
To me, a forever love is a bond that can’t be broken.
‘Back To Love’ is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it’s a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.
Who loves, raves.
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Love of country, subordination of personal interests to the common good, concern and care for the helpless and the impoverished – these are among the lost and faded values that we seek to recover and revitalize as we commence our journey towards a better Philippines.
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
Don’t forget to love yourself.
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
The crime of loving is forgetting.
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
I’m very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
I love being in a city with great weather.
People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
I love the unknown, and any day that I get to experience someplace new is a good day.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
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.
All love is lost but upon God alone.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
I love natural beauty, and I think it’s your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Music is love in search of a word.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.
I have my flaws, but I embrace them and I love them because they’re mine.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
We live in the world when we love it.
We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
I love being outside and getting fresh air.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.
Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.
True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping my head above the water.
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
We love because it’s the only true adventure.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
I fell in love with the Maldives. It’s a beautiful place!
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
All love is lost but upon God alone.
Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you’re not really alone.
Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it’s been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
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.
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before.
I love black and white and very simple and classic clothes.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
I don’t think I’ve had love at first sight. But, I’ve definitely had moments where I’ve seen a person, and I’m like, ‘Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.’
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
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.
It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.
Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
If baking is any labor at all, it’s a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
When my, British-Church of England mother married my, Canadian-Jewish Father, the deal was that she would embrace Judaism, but wouldn’t give up her Christmas tree. So, I grew up with Christmas every year. I loved it then and I love it now.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
I now believe in love at first sight. Especially after it’s happened to me.
The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
The crime of loving is forgetting.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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.
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Any time not spent on love is wasted.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ’s true love and forgiveness.
Love the giver more than the gift.
I feel extremely honoured and humbled that people are showing me so much love. My fans have stood by me through thick and thin, and I think this love is what makes my concerts house-full.
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Love is a serious mental disease.
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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.
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.
Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
Be beautiful, be stylish, and love yourself.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Love is energy of life.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
I love editing. It’s one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don’t take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
You don’t have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
The more people love you, the more there’s going to be people that hate you.
Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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.
Learn how to treat your vegetables with the love and kindness that they deserve.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
Love is a great beautifier.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
To love is to act.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
But love’s a malady without a cure.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
To all the other dreamers out there, don’t ever stop or let the world’s negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
Truth is, I love everyone that is a good person regardless of what they look like, walk like, or who they love.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Love and a red rose can’t be hid.
I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don’t.
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
I’m very thankful to all my fans for their constant love and support. I am what I am because of their unconditional love.
Love, and do what you like.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
A bell’s not a bell ’til you ring it, A song’s not a song ’til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!
Give me love and work – these two only.
You give loyalty, you’ll get it back. You give love, you’ll get it back.
Though lovers be lost, love shall not.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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.
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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.
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.
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
I love shifting between being super cute and aggressive. It’s funny.
True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
True love lasts forever.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
I love the rain. It’s my favorite weather.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man’s bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they’re not well manicured, you’ve got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don’t want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
I am so grateful for all the love and support I’ve had from people around the world.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
If you’ve got love you’ve got life, if you can love you can live.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody’s going to hate you for it.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
We didn’t take Charlize Theron seriously until she did ‘Monster’ and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn’t be its precondition.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
Love is being stupid together.
I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That’s my motto.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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.
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Love is love’s reward.
I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don’t know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
One must not trifle with love.
We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
My mission is to make the world happy and cute and to love everyone. I think I’m doing a pretty good job.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
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.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
In conclusion, love quotes remind us of the incredible power, beauty, and depth of love. They inspire us to cherish and nurture the love in our lives, whether it be romantic love, love for family and friends, or love for humanity. Let these quotes resonate with you as you navigate the intricacies of love, and may they serve as a constant reminder to embrace love, cultivate compassion, and celebrate the profound connections that make life truly meaningful.
