42 Classic Quotes on Love

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~Robert Frost

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire." ~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." ~Tom Robbins

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

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

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

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything." ~Katherine Hepburn

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." ~Lao-Tsu

"Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side." ~Hugh Prather

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." ~Leo Tolstoy

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." ~David Viscott

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." ~Kahlil Gibran

"Love is first friendship and then commitment." ~Jacques Pierre Ribault

"To fear love is to fear life." ~Bertrand Russell

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." ~Peter Ustinov

"Couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking." ~Chinese Proverb

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." ~H.L. Mencken

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." ~St. Augustine

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." ~Helen Keller

"Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person." ~Nathaniel Branden

"True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person." ~Josh McDowell

"Love is energy of life." ~Robert Browning

"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." ~Honore De Balzac

"To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves." ~John Gray

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"To love is to be vulnerable." ~C.S. Lewis

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." ~Robert A. Heinlein

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship." ~Lord Byron

"Love is the essence of God." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self." ~Erich Fromm

"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence." ~Vincent Van Gogh

"Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love -- the feeling -- is a fruit of love the verb." ~Stephen R. Covey

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life." ~Pablo Picasso

"Real love begins where nothing is expected in return." ~Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

"Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self." ~David Frost

"He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love." ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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." ~W. Somerset Maugham

"We forgive to the extent that we love." ~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

“Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.” ~Swedish Proverb

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.” -~Alexandre Dumas

"Who, being loved, is poor?" ~Oscar Wilde

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