Love quotes
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“With our love, we could save the world.”

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton”
Variant: All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Source: Mad Love

Variant: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”

“Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie”
Variant: Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will?
“You love life because life's all there is.”
Source: The Last Werewolf

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
Variant: Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”

“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
Variant: Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Source: To Love and Be Loved

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Article on Biography.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Variant: For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”

“Love is what you've been through with somebody”

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
Source: Morrie: In His Own Words

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Source: Selected Poems

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Source: Born of Shadows
Source: Again the Magic

“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live”
Source: The Long Song

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

May 1849: This is a remark Emerson wrote referring to the unreliability of second hand testimony and worse upon the subject of immortality. It is often taken out of proper context, and has even begun appearing on the internet as "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" or sometimes just "I hate quotations".
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”

“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.”
Source: Black Blood

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)

“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
The Earth, Act IV, l. 403
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)

Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…


“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
"The Times Newspaper"
Political Essays (1819)

“There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts”
Source: Anna Karenina

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994
“We are in love and meant to be together.”
Source: Something Borrowed

“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Variant: Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Source: Les Misérables

“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)

Attributed in The National elementary principal https://books.google.com/books?id=T8YVAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Then+will+our+world+know+the+blessings+of+peace.%22&dq=%22Then+will+our+world+know+the+blessings+of+peace.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1iNCMvcHLAhUMcz4KHXvcCt84MhDoAQgfMAE (1948) - Volume 28 - Page 34; a similar statement has also become attributed to Jimi Hendrix: "When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace." A similar quotation is found in My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993) by Sri Chinmoy: "My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own … World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power." An even earlier statement of Chinmoy is found in Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970): "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God."
Disputed
Variant: 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.

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Variant: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

“Harry: Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
Deconstructing Harry (1997)

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
Source: Message in a Bottle

“Eternal nothingness is O. K. if you're dressed for it.”
Getting Even (1971), My Philosophy
Variant: Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
“it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.”

“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Misattributed to Confucius since at least 1985; correct origins are dubious, as mentioned in "Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life" at QuoteInvestigator.com (2 September 2014) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/02/job-love/: the oldest English-language use of the proverb has been found in Woolfolk, Ann, "Toshiko Takaezu," Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 83(5), 6 October 1982, p. 32: "Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life." (attributed to Arthur Szathmary, who attributes it, in his turn, to an unnamed source).
Misattributed, Not Chinese

“Man knows that love is, but not what it is.”
Divine Love and Wisdom #1

Jotted (in German) on the margins of a letter to him (1933), p. 56
Unsourced variants: Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. / You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others”
Source: Reported in, "Transform Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Becoming the Person You Want to Be" by Penny Ferguson, p. 167.

“We need not think alike to love alike.”
This attribution seems to have begun in the 1960s, and has been debunked at "Who really said that?" by Peter Hughes at UU World (15 August 2012) http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/229844.shtml; previously misattributed in A Chosen Faith (1991) by John A. Buehrens; also in Unitarian Universalist Origins: Our Historic Faith by Mark W. Harris https://web.archive.org/web/20060101061859/www.uua.org/info/origins.html
Misattributed
“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3

As quoted in Notable Thoughts About Women : A Literary Mosaic (1882) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 311

“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 13

“You are beautiful and you are alone.”
Afraid

“Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 29