Famous Love Quotes
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
As the snowflakes gently fall and the world transforms into a serene winter wonderland, Christmas arrives like a beautiful melody, reminding us to cherish the bonds that unite us. It's a time to wrap ourselves in the warmth of togetherness, reminisce about cherished memories, and revel in the joy of giving. May this festive season fill your heart with love, peace, and endless happiness.
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
A pet's love is a reminder to be present, to show affection, and to cherish the moments we have.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Motherhood All love begins and ends there.
All is fair in love and war.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Love is trembling happiness.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Absence, that common cure of love.
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Love is the music that fills our souls, resonating with the rhythm of our hearts and bringing harmony to our lives.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.
Dogs are a reflection of our own capacity to love and be loved unconditionally.
Love is a dance of souls, where two individuals come together and create a beautiful symphony of trust, understanding, and unconditional support.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
Love is not about finding someone to complete us, but about finding someone who inspires us to become the best version of ourselves.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Love is when you don’t have to be with another person to touch their heart!
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Love is not about finding someone who meets all our expectations, but about finding someone who exceeds them and brings out the best in us.
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
Dogs teach us valuable life lessons, such as loyalty, forgiveness, and unconditional love.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Love is the magic that turns ordinary moments into extraordinary memorie"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Amidst the wintry cold, when the world outside slows down, we ignite the candles of the heart. Christmas is the time of illuminating lights that vanquish darkness and of love that wraps us in its cozy embrace. May this festive season be a radiant chapter in your life, filled with love, peace, and serene moments to cherish.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
They do not love, that do not show their love.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Love is the most powerful force in the universe.
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
When the glow of Christmas lights breaks through the darkness and candles cast a soft glow in our eyes, we feel the magic of this special time. Christmas is the moment when we share stories of years gone by, embrace in each other's arms, and enjoy the silence of the present. May your heart be filled with love and peace during this festive season.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
In the realm of love, the heart knows no boundaries.
The bells ring, the scent of pine needles and baked goods fills the air – Christmas brings us the sweet memory of childhood dreams and the innocence of anticipation. It's the time when we realize that it's the small gestures of love that make the holiday so special. In this spirit, I wish you a festive Christmas filled with warmth and security.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
Friendship is the foundation of love, kindness, and understanding.
Love is a flame that burns bright even in the darkest of times, reminding us of the resilience of the human spirit.
As the first snow falls gently outside, covering the world in a white blanket, the season of reflection begins. Christmas is the moment when we leave behind the hustle and bustle of everyday life, embrace the warmth of community, and feel the power of love. May this festive time be filled with heartfelt moments for you and your loved ones.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
Love is not about possession; it's about partnership. It's about standing side by side, supporting and uplifting each other in the journey of life.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Pets teach us about unconditional love and acceptance.
Love is a mirror that reflects our inner beauty, reminding us of our worthiness and showing us the best version of ourselves.
And I love wisdom more than she loves me.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
To love beauty is to see light.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Love is a sanctuary where we can be our truest selves, knowing that we are accepted and cherished exactly as we are.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
A cat's purr is a reminder that the simplest acts of love can have the most profound impact.
Love is a journey that takes us beyond ourselves, teaching us the true meaning of compassion, empathy, and selflessness.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Love is not about finding someone to save us; it's about finding someone who believes in us and helps us save ourselves.
Being single teaches you how to be emotionally fluent — how to sit with yourself, understand your patterns, and name what you feel without running from it. You learn that self-love isn’t a slogan; it’s a daily practice of showing up. In the stillness, you notice where you’ve healed and where you still ache. That’s not failure — that’s honesty. And honesty is the soil where real love grows later.