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Erich Fromm:
  • Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

    • de Simone Beauvoir:
  • The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

    • Jalaluddin Rumi:
  • 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.

    • John Lennon:
  • All you need is love.

    • Horace:
  • Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

    • Ella Fitzgerald:
  • Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

    • Rene Crevel:
  • Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves

    • Wilhelm Reich:
  • I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.

    • Andre Breton:
  • Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

    • Patrick Hearn:
  • No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

    • Maupassant:
  • There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

    • Tennyson:
  • It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

    • Boccaccio:
  • Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

    • Balzac:
  • The more one judges, the less one loves.

    • Toulouse:
  • Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

    • Kavvadias:
  • Always the perfect, unworthy lover of the endless voyage and azure ocean

    • Jane Austen:
  • If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

    • Aziz Nesin:
  • You came back after a long time
    I now love longing for you more than I love you

    • Henry Miller:
  • The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

    • Calderon:
  • When love is not madness, it is not love.

    • Eminescu:
  • While love, of any kind, lightens and sweetens life, hate darkens it, fills it with bitterness and make it nasty.

    • Skinner:
  • We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

    • Dylan Thomas:
  • Though lovers be lost, love shall not;

    • Alfred Musset:
  • life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream.

    • Unamuno:
  • It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love

    • Calvino:
  • In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

    • Lamartine:
  • To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

    • Saadawi:
  • If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well.

    • Pinto Andrade:
  • My goal is to reach the end satisfied and at peace with my loved ones and my conscience.

    • Mario Benedetti:
  • It is almost a law, eternal loves are the shortest

    • Teresa Teng:
  • I would rather be loved than be a hero.

    • Valkana Stoyanova:
  • I love songs that talk about beauty, courage and humanity.

    • Per Lagerkvist:
  • Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.

    • Verdi:
  • I love art.. when I'm alone with my notes, my heart beats fast and tears run from my eyes.

    • Sathya Baba:
  • There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.

    • Puccini:
  • I lived in art, I lived in love, I never hurt a soul.

    • Janis Joplin:
  • Every night I make love to 25,000 people on stage, but then I go home alone.

    • Thomas Aquinas:
  • The things that we love tell us what we are.

    • Hafez:
  • Love is creation's greatest joy.

    • Nietzsche:
  • There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

    • George Byron:
  • I love not man the less, but Nature more.

    • John Lennon:
  • Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

    • Gabriel Marquez:
  • I love you not for whom you are, but who i am when i'm by your side.

    • Maria Kallas:
  • Love is so much better when you're not married.

    • Frank Sinatra:
  • Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy

    • Edith Piaf:
  • Love goes on a journey, like I do One day I'll find it By the time I see its face I'll recognize it right away.

    • Jacques Prevert:
  • Love is so simple.

    • Exupery:
  • Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

    • Wilhelm Reich:
  • “Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

    • Igor Stravinsky:
  • In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

    • Oscar Wilde:
  • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

    • van Gogh,Vincent:
  • It is good to 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 well done.

    • Rilke:
  • Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.

    • Hector Berlioz:
  • Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

    • Rolland:
  • There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

    • Skinner:
  • What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

    • John Updike:
  • We are most alive when we're in love.

    • Chairil Anwar:
  • Love's a danger that quickly fades

    • Pascal:
  • When one does not love too much, one does not love enough

    • Malatesta:
  • Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

    • Borges:
  • “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

    • Paulo Freire:
  • Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.

    • Victor Jara:
  • Love of freedom, but not the freedom acquired at the expense of others' freedom,

    • cummings:
  • Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

    • Galaktion Tabidze:
  • No immortality ever lives
    Without love!

    • Boris Vian:
  • There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”

    • Wollstonecraft:
  • Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

    • Charles Aznavour:
  • My love of the chanson towered above my other loves

    • Raymond Queneau:
  • True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

    • Sathya Baba:
  • The greatest spiritual practice is to transform love into service.

    • Langston Hughes:
  • Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

    • Anatole France:
  • Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

    • Yourcenar:
  • Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

    • Plato:
  • At the touch of love everybody becomes a poet.

    • George Byron:
  • I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

    • E.L. Masters,:
  • There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

    • John Keats:
  • I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

    • Sappho:
  • Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

    • Laozi:
  • Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

    • Confucius:
  • Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

    • Ovid:
  • Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

    • Octavio Paz:
  • Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

    • Wilhelm Reich:
  • Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

    • Gabriela Mistral:
  • Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe

    • Lawrence:
  • Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

    • Rimbaud:
  • Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

    • Herman Melville:
  • Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

    • Hawthorne:
  • A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

    • Rilke:
  • Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

    • Jane Austen:
  • Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

    • Skinner:
  • We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

    • William Thackeray:
  • To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

    • Derek Walcott:
  • Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

    • Unamuno:
  • A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

    • Simone Weil:
  • Love is not consolation. It is light.

    • Panait Istrati:
  • Money does not heal hearts that have been hurt by love. On the contrary, it offends them…

    • Thomas Mann:
  • It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

    • Ted Hughes:
  • The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

    • Apollinaire:
  • I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts

    • Doris Lessing:
  • What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

    • Mario Benedetti:
  • We are born sad and die sad, but in the meantime, we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

    • Cesar Vallejo:
  • “There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear, and there are desires to die, fought by two opposing waters that have never isthmused.”

    • Ray Charles:
  • Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

    • Sathya Baba:
  • Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

    • Jonathan Swift:
  • We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

    • Allen Ginsberg:
  • The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love.

    • Kawabata:
  • “I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.”

    • Pericles:
  • Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

    • Brecht:
  • War is like love, it always finds a way.

    • Erich Fromm:
  • Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

    • Emily Dickinson:
  • Love is immortality.

    • Jalaluddin Rumi:
  • We are born of love; Love is our mother.

    • Mozart:
  • 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.

    • A. Edgar Poe,:
  • We loved with a love that was more than love.

    • Sappho:
  • Love shook my heart, like the wind on the mountain rushing over the oak trees.

    • Thucydides:
  • We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

    • W. Burroughs:
  • There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

    • Anais Nin:
  • You cannot save people, you can only love them.

    • Andre Breton:
  • If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

    • Lawrence:
  • A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.

    • James Joyce:
  • Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

    • B. W. Yeats:
  • For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

    • Petrarca:
  • The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

    • Machiavelli:
  • “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”

    • Richelieu:
  • I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and i like bums.

    • Moliere:
  • “It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”

    • Robespierre:
  • Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

    • Rilke:
  • Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

    • Christina Rossetti:
  • Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.”

    • Somerset Maugham:
  • The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

    • Calderon:
  • Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

    • Amos Oz:
  • Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.

    • Eino Leino:
  • He who a single one loves is blessed – beloved of everybody. Whoever self-interest forgets the best will blessèd dreams embody.

    • Borges:
  • “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

    • Carlos Fuentes:
  • Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

    • Mario Benedetti:
  • I love, you love, he loves, we love, you love, they love. I wish this was a reality

    • Brendan Behan:
  • A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

    • Thornton Wilder:
  • “The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”

    • Erich Fromm:
  • Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love

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

    • Pablo Neruda:
  • I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

    • Gabriela Mistral:
  • Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

    • Pessoa:
  • We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

    • Antonio Porchia:
  • I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

    • Lawrence:
  • In every living thing there is the desire for love.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

    • Strindberg:
  • Love between a man and a woman is a war.

    • Kierkegaard:
  • Don't forget to love yourself.

    • Petrarca:
  • True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

    • Rochefoucauld:
  • There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

    • Somerset Maugham:
  • We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

    • Eminescu:
  • Everybody belives in love, but some are wondering if it really exists.

    • Edna Milley:
  • I love humanity but I hate people.

    • Leonard Cohen:
  • “Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

    • John Updike:
  • It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

    • Adam Smith:
  • 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.

    • Andre Malraux:
  • Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

    • Mario Benedetti:
  • I know I will love you without questions, I know you will love me without answers.

    • Spinoza:
  • “The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

    • Emily Dickinson:
  • Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

    • John Lennon:
  • If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

    • Stendhal:
  • I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

    • Luther:
  • There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

    • Pablo Neruda:
  • I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.

    • Anais Nin:
  • Love is the axis and breath of my life.

    • Hermann Hesse:
  • To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

    • Tagore:
  • Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

    • van Gogh,Vincent:
  • “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

    • Tennyson:
  • Love is the only gold.

    • Petrarca:
  • I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

    • Machiavelli:
  • It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

    • Balzac:
  • A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

    • Michelangelo:
  • My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

    • John Milton:
  • Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”

    • Ian Fleming:
  • Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

    • Carl Jung:
  • Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

    • William Thackeray:
  • People hate as they love, unreasonably.

    • Simone Weil:
  • Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

    • Dorothy Parker:
  • Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

    • Chateaubriand:
  • Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

    • Charles Bukowski:
  • It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

    • Aristophanes:
  • Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

    • Maya Angelou:
  • I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

    • Ovid:
  • Fortune and love favor the brave.

    • Edith Piaf:
  • I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

    • Pablo Neruda:
  • By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

    • James Joyce:
  • Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

    • Hawthorne:
  • Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

    • Saadi:
  • Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

    • Napoleon:
  • 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.

    • Balzac:
  • Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

    • Hector Berlioz:
  • If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

    • Racine:
  • I have loved him too much not to hate”

    • Rolland:
  • One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

    • Eminescu:
  • The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of love.

    • Virginia Satir:
  • I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

    • Dylan Thomas:
  • These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t.

    • John Locke:
  • To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

    • Guru Nanak:
  • Those who have loved are those that have found God'

    • Doris Lessing:
  • What is a hero without love for mankind.

    • Thornton Wilder:
  • There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

    • Erich Fromm:
  • Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

    • Voltaire:
  • Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

    • W. Burroughs:
  • “Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

    • Salvador Dali:
  • People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

    • Shakespeare:
  • If music be the food of love, play on.

    • Hector Berlioz:
  • Music and love are the wings of the soul.

    • Michelangelo:
  • Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

    • Beckett:
  • If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

    • Schweitzer:
  • The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind

    • Henry Thoreau:
  • Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

    • Pearl Buck:
  • Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

    • Aeschylus:
  • God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

    • Confucius:
  • 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.

    • Maupassant:
  • It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

    • Moliere:
  • “The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.

    • Jane Austen:
  • A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

    • Paul Valery:
  • Love is being stupid together.

    • Thomas Aquinas:
  • Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

    • Aristotles:
  • It is natural to love oneself,  and only the egoism must be condemned.  That is not only to love yourself,  but to love him more than is needed.

    • Marcus Aurelius:
  • 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.

    • Bob Marley:
  • Love the life you live. Live the life you love.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • “It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

    • Tennyson:
  • "Who are wise in love, love most, say least."

    • Montaigne:
  • If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

    • Jane Austen:
  • There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

    • Robert Burns:
  • My love is like a red, red rose
    That's newly sprung in June:
    My love is like the melody
    That's sweetly played in tune.

    • Vonnegut:
  • There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

    • Guru Nanak:
  • Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit

    • Kazantzakis:
  • If you don't embrace yourself first, do not expect from others to do so. Love the person because it's you.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

    • Carl Sandburg:
  • Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. Carl Sandburg

    • Jalaluddin Rumi:
  • 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.

    • Stendhal:
  • The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

    • Octavio Paz:
  • In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.

    • Jack London:
  • Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give

    • Renoir:
  • Paint with joy – with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

    • Shakespeare:
  • Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

    • Balzac:
  • Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

    • Kazantzakis:
  • The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

    • Democritus:
  • Choose to be loved rather than feared. He who is feared by all, he fears all.

    • de Simone Beauvoir:
  • I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

    • Buddha:
  • If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

    • Alexander Pope,:
  • No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

    • Franz Kafka:
  • Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

    • Tagore:
  • Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

    • Samuel Johnson:
  • We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

    • Pascal:
  • “Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

    • Pythagoras:
  • As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings will never know health or peace. He, who sows the fruit of murder and pain can not reap joy and love.

    • Gandhi:
  • Where there is love there is life.

    • Stendhal:
  • If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

    • Rochefoucauld:
  • One forgives to the degree that one loves.

    • Cervantes:
  • Eyes, the silent tongue of love.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • "Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

    • Simone Weil:
  • Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

    • Erich Fromm:
  • If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

    • Voltaire:
  • It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

    • Tagore:
  • We live in the world when we love it.

    • Cervantes:
  • That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

    • Khalil Gibran:
  • If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

    • Walt Disney:
  • Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

    • Stendhal:
  • Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

    • Oscar Wilde:
  • Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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

    • Sartre:
  • In love, one and one is one.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

    • Goethe:
  • Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

    • Chanel:
  • There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.’

    • Oscar Wilde:
  • Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

    • Buddha:
  • You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.