“I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.”
Valentines Day Quotes
“When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.”
Valentines Day Quotes
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
Valentines Day Quotes
“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
“Love is the only gold.”
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life”
Valentines Day Quotes
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven”
“A life without love is like a year without summer.”
“If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.”
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
John Lennon quotes (English Singer, Songwriter and Political activist, member of the "Beatles", 1940-1980)
Valentines Day Quotes
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence”
Vincent van Gogh quotes (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)
Valentines Day Quotes
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Judy Garland quotes
Valentines Day Quotes
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
“The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.”
Valentines Day Quotes
Albert Ellis quotes (American Psychologist and Writer, b.1913)
“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”
Ralph W. Sockman quotes
Valentines Day Quotes
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
Similar Quotes. About: Love quotes, Words quotes, Meaning quotes. For: Anniversary quotes, Valentine's Day quotes, Just Because quotes.
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
Similar Quotes. About: Love quotes, Words quotes, Meaning quotes. For: Anniversary quotes, Valentine's Day quotes, Just Because quotes.
Valentines Day Quotes
“Everything is clearer when you're in love.”
John Lennon quotes (English Singer, Songwriter and Political activist, member of the "Beatles", 1940-1980)
Valentines Day Quotes
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
derekjw203
Valentines Day Quotes
Dr. Seuss quotes (American Writer and Cartoonist best known for his collection of children's books. 1904-1991)
“You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.”
john7
David Levesque quotes
“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”
Spike to Buffy
nc01crod
Joss Whedon quotes (American Screenwriter, Producer and Creator of the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also known for Toy Story, Alien Resurrection, and Angel, b.1964)
“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
Keith Sweat quotes
“Love is all you need.”
Paul McCartney quotes (English Musician and Singer and songwriter, b.1942)
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Herman Hesse quotes
“Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.
Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
And the sky of the sky of a tree called life;
Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide.
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.
I carry your heart.
I carry it in my heart.”
EryckahAnne
E. E. Cummings quotes (American poet 1894-1962
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Lucretius
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
Frank Morgan
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Use one of these famous Valentine's Day love quotes to express your love with a bunch of red roses. These romantic quotations will never fail to impress your Valentine and will make him/ her realize how much you love Him/ her. Some of these love quotes are funny, others are romantic and yet others are thought provoking and will surely make your beloved feel special and cared for. So read to know more about what famous people had to say about the beautiful feeling called love!
"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."
-Shakespeare
"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
-Unknown
"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
-Unknown
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
-Saint-Exupery
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
-Les Miserables
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith
"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."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
-Lawrence Durrell
“Very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Thoreau
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
-Dr. Karl Menninger
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray
"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
-Unknown
"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."
-Alicia Barnhart
"Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived."
-Unknown
"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."
-Unknown
"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest."
-Unknown
"The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!"
-Margaret Atwood
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
-Unknown
"Within you, I lose myself. Without you, I find myself wanting to be lost again."
-Unknown
"A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses."
[Unknown]
"Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without"
[Rafael Ortiz}
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away."
[Song of Solomon 2:10]
“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
[Amy Carmichael]
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
[Goethe]
Love comfortheth like sunshine after rain."
[William Shakespeare]
"The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice."
[Caroline Fry]
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
[Thomas Fuller - 1608-1661]
"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved.
It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves.
Love, therefore, is its own reward."
[Thomas Merton)]
"God wants us to have love. We must be careful not to settle for sex."
[Max Anders]
"Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more
than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love."
[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
[Henry Ward Beecher]
"To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved."
[Leibniz]
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
[Henry Ward Beecher]
"Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see."
[Anonymous]
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are
expected to give — which is everything."
[Unknown]
"Love is like a tennis match; you'll never win consistently until you learn to serve well."
[Dan P. Herod]
"Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen
and I will tell you how much you have loved them."
[Helmut Thielicke]
"Love does not seek things for itself."
[Latin Proverb]
"But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need,
and shuts up his heart from him, how does
the love of God abide in him?"
1 John 3:17[NKJV]
FREE LITERATURE
"Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love.
Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing.
It loves for the creature’s sake it loves, and for nothing else."
[C. H. Spurgeon]
"Those who deserve love the least need it the most."
[Unknown]
"You may give without loving, but cannot love without giving."
(Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)
"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
[Lord Byron]
"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved."
[George Eliot]
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
[Peter Ustinov]
"Those who deserve love the least need it the most"
[Unknown]
"God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet,
that she should be his slave, but rather from his side that she should be near to his heart."
[Hebrew Proverb]
"Love not only forgives but it also seeks forgiveness."
[R. Robert Flatt]
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us."
[Romans 5:8 NKJV]
"Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family.
Having both - is a blessing. "
(Donna Hedges)
"One forgives to the degree that one loves."
[François Duc de la Rochefoucauld]
“The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving.
That’s what God did. At the loss of His Son’s life to the totally undeserving,
God gave the best gift – the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.”
[John Piper]
"The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing."
[James Stalker]
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"
[John 3:16 NKJV]
"Love is like gravity; hard to see, but easy to feel"
[The Church Mouse]
"God proved His love on the cross. When Jesus hung, and bled, and died,
it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'”
[Billy Graham]
"Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!”
[Billy Graham]
"Part of obedience to the Golden Rule is knowing how to respond once
you've behaved in an unloving way."
[Doug McIntosh]
"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him."
[Blaise Pascal]
"But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need,
and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?"
[1 John 3:17 NKJV]
"That best little portion of a good man's life - his little nameless unremembered
acts of kindness and love."
[W. Wordsworth]
"The love of wealth makes bitter men; the love of God, better men." [W. L. Hudson]
"Love keeps on expecting the best! Because love keeps on trusting God even
when the right choices you make don't turn out the way you want them too!"
[Unknown]
"Love doesn't give up just because something goes wrong or because your feelings are hurt.
God is in charge, so those who love just keep on loving."
[Unknown]
"Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do."
[David Wilkerson]
"Love is doing what is best for a person regardless of the cost or response."
[R. Robert Flatt]
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
[Henry Ward Beecher]
"Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time.
To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way,
just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us
and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself."
[Jerry Bridges]
"Faults are thick where love is thin"
[James Howell]
"Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on."
[Gloria Gaither]
"There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love.
And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it. "
[Max Lucado]
"The first duty of love is to listen."
[Paul Tillich]
"Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them."
[Apostle Paul - Colossians 3:19]
"The person determined to love others will always find a way to do so."
[Doug McIntosh]
"So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself."
[Apostle Paul - Ephesians 5:28]
"Jesus said to him," 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'...
And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
[Matthew 27:37, 39]
"Jesus is a friend who knows all your faults and still loves you anyway."
[God's Little Instruction Book for Women]
"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people
and use things instead of using people and loving things."
[Unknown]
"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor
after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots."
[Hoosier Farmer]
"No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well."
[Lawrence Pearsall Jacks]
"Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the
divine nature which beams full of all goodness."
[Martin Luther]
"Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave."
[Song of Solomon 8:6]
"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."
[Sir Arthur Wing Pinero]
"Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn."
[William Penn]
"My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
For whom the LORD loves He chastens."
[Hebrews 12:5b, 6a]
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
[Ruskin]
"Love that is true, never grows old."
[Elben Bano]
"Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly."
(Apostle Paul - Colossians 3:19 Weymouth's New Testament)
"Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do."
[David Wilkerson]
"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred."
[Solomon in Proverbs 15:17]
"Love is a four-letter word composed of two consonants, L and V;
two vowels, O and E; and two fools, you and me."
[unknown]
"For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the
tax collectors do the same?"
[Jesus in Matthew 5:46]
"When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest,
I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now."
[C. S. Lewis]
"Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending...
We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending.
We love them because it's the right thing to do."
[Doug McIntosh]
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."
[Margaret Anderson)]
"The Ten Commandments are an expression of God's love carved in stone. We see
them as narrow restrictions but God meant them to be for our protection.
We view them as taking the fun out of life
but God uses them to point us to the source of life - Jesus Christ."
[R. Robert Flatt]
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned,
but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy;
love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
does not behave rudely, does not seek its own,
is not provoked, thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails."
[1 Corinthians 13:1 - 8a NKJV]
"Love is costly. To forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time.
To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way,
just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us
and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself."
[Jerry Bridges]
"Love communicates an immense value to our smallest actions."
[Sautereau]
"We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power.
Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
[William Gladstone]
"The success of a marriage comes not in finding the 'right' person, but in the ability of both partners
to adjust to the real person they inevitably realize they married."
(John Fisher)
"Romantic love is emotional. It has no rhyme or reason and it's conditioned by circumstance.
Real love is volitional. It is an act of the will to do what is best for a person and is oblivious to circumstance."
[David Joseph]
"The first duty of love is to listen."
[Paul Tillich]
"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
[1 Corinthians 13:13 NKJV]
"Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away."
[Tom Wilson]
"Patience with others is Love, patience with self is Hope, patience with God is Faith."
[Adel Bestavros ]
"We too often love things and use people,
when we should be using things and loving people."
[Unknown]
Valentines Day Quotes
“When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.”
Valentines Day Quotes
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
Valentines Day Quotes
“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
“Love is the only gold.”
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life”
Valentines Day Quotes
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven”
“A life without love is like a year without summer.”
“If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.”
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
John Lennon quotes (English Singer, Songwriter and Political activist, member of the "Beatles", 1940-1980)
Valentines Day Quotes
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence”
Vincent van Gogh quotes (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)
Valentines Day Quotes
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Judy Garland quotes
Valentines Day Quotes
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
“The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.”
Valentines Day Quotes
Albert Ellis quotes (American Psychologist and Writer, b.1913)
“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”
Ralph W. Sockman quotes
Valentines Day Quotes
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
Similar Quotes. About: Love quotes, Words quotes, Meaning quotes. For: Anniversary quotes, Valentine's Day quotes, Just Because quotes.
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
Similar Quotes. About: Love quotes, Words quotes, Meaning quotes. For: Anniversary quotes, Valentine's Day quotes, Just Because quotes.
Valentines Day Quotes
“Everything is clearer when you're in love.”
John Lennon quotes (English Singer, Songwriter and Political activist, member of the "Beatles", 1940-1980)
Valentines Day Quotes
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
derekjw203
Valentines Day Quotes
Dr. Seuss quotes (American Writer and Cartoonist best known for his collection of children's books. 1904-1991)
“You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.”
john7
David Levesque quotes
“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”
Spike to Buffy
nc01crod
Joss Whedon quotes (American Screenwriter, Producer and Creator of the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also known for Toy Story, Alien Resurrection, and Angel, b.1964)
“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
Keith Sweat quotes
“Love is all you need.”
Paul McCartney quotes (English Musician and Singer and songwriter, b.1942)
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Herman Hesse quotes
“Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.
Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
And the sky of the sky of a tree called life;
Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide.
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.
I carry your heart.
I carry it in my heart.”
EryckahAnne
E. E. Cummings quotes (American poet 1894-1962
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor
Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Lucretius
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
Frank Morgan
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Use one of these famous Valentine's Day love quotes to express your love with a bunch of red roses. These romantic quotations will never fail to impress your Valentine and will make him/ her realize how much you love Him/ her. Some of these love quotes are funny, others are romantic and yet others are thought provoking and will surely make your beloved feel special and cared for. So read to know more about what famous people had to say about the beautiful feeling called love!
"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."
-Shakespeare
"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
-Unknown
"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
-Unknown
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
-Saint-Exupery
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
-St. Augustine
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
-Les Miserables
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith
"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."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
-Lawrence Durrell
“Very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Thoreau
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
-Dr. Karl Menninger
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
-William M. Thackeray
"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..."
-Unknown
"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."
-Alicia Barnhart
"Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived."
-Unknown
"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."
-Unknown
"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest."
-Unknown
"The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!"
-Margaret Atwood
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
-Unknown
"Within you, I lose myself. Without you, I find myself wanting to be lost again."
-Unknown
"A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses."
[Unknown]
"Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without"
[Rafael Ortiz}
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away."
[Song of Solomon 2:10]
“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
[Amy Carmichael]
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
[Goethe]
Love comfortheth like sunshine after rain."
[William Shakespeare]
"The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice."
[Caroline Fry]
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
[Thomas Fuller - 1608-1661]
"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved.
It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves.
Love, therefore, is its own reward."
[Thomas Merton)]
"God wants us to have love. We must be careful not to settle for sex."
[Max Anders]
"Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more
than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love."
[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
[Henry Ward Beecher]
"To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved."
[Leibniz]
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
[Henry Ward Beecher]
"Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see."
[Anonymous]
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are
expected to give — which is everything."
[Unknown]
"Love is like a tennis match; you'll never win consistently until you learn to serve well."
[Dan P. Herod]
"Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen
and I will tell you how much you have loved them."
[Helmut Thielicke]
"Love does not seek things for itself."
[Latin Proverb]
"But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need,
and shuts up his heart from him, how does
the love of God abide in him?"
1 John 3:17[NKJV]
FREE LITERATURE
"Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love.
Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing.
It loves for the creature’s sake it loves, and for nothing else."
[C. H. Spurgeon]
"Those who deserve love the least need it the most."
[Unknown]
"You may give without loving, but cannot love without giving."
(Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)
"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
[Lord Byron]
"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved."
[George Eliot]
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
[Peter Ustinov]
"Those who deserve love the least need it the most"
[Unknown]
"God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet,
that she should be his slave, but rather from his side that she should be near to his heart."
[Hebrew Proverb]
"Love not only forgives but it also seeks forgiveness."
[R. Robert Flatt]
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us."
[Romans 5:8 NKJV]
"Having a place to go - is a home. Having someone to love - is a family.
Having both - is a blessing. "
(Donna Hedges)
"One forgives to the degree that one loves."
[François Duc de la Rochefoucauld]
“The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving.
That’s what God did. At the loss of His Son’s life to the totally undeserving,
God gave the best gift – the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.”
[John Piper]
"The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing."
[James Stalker]
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"
[John 3:16 NKJV]
"Love is like gravity; hard to see, but easy to feel"
[The Church Mouse]
"God proved His love on the cross. When Jesus hung, and bled, and died,
it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'”
[Billy Graham]
"Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!”
[Billy Graham]
"Part of obedience to the Golden Rule is knowing how to respond once
you've behaved in an unloving way."
[Doug McIntosh]
"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him."
[Blaise Pascal]
"But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need,
and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?"
[1 John 3:17 NKJV]
"That best little portion of a good man's life - his little nameless unremembered
acts of kindness and love."
[W. Wordsworth]
"The love of wealth makes bitter men; the love of God, better men." [W. L. Hudson]
"Love keeps on expecting the best! Because love keeps on trusting God even
when the right choices you make don't turn out the way you want them too!"
[Unknown]
"Love doesn't give up just because something goes wrong or because your feelings are hurt.
God is in charge, so those who love just keep on loving."
[Unknown]
"Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do."
[David Wilkerson]
"Love is doing what is best for a person regardless of the cost or response."
[R. Robert Flatt]
"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."
[Henry Ward Beecher]
"Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time.
To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way,
just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us
and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself."
[Jerry Bridges]
"Faults are thick where love is thin"
[James Howell]
"Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on."
[Gloria Gaither]
"There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love.
And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it. "
[Max Lucado]
"The first duty of love is to listen."
[Paul Tillich]
"Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them."
[Apostle Paul - Colossians 3:19]
"The person determined to love others will always find a way to do so."
[Doug McIntosh]
"So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself."
[Apostle Paul - Ephesians 5:28]
"Jesus said to him," 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'...
And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
[Matthew 27:37, 39]
"Jesus is a friend who knows all your faults and still loves you anyway."
[God's Little Instruction Book for Women]
"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people
and use things instead of using people and loving things."
[Unknown]
"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor
after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots."
[Hoosier Farmer]
"No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well."
[Lawrence Pearsall Jacks]
"Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the
divine nature which beams full of all goodness."
[Martin Luther]
"Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave."
[Song of Solomon 8:6]
"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."
[Sir Arthur Wing Pinero]
"Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn."
[William Penn]
"My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
For whom the LORD loves He chastens."
[Hebrews 12:5b, 6a]
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
[Ruskin]
"Love that is true, never grows old."
[Elben Bano]
"Married men, be affectionate to your wives, and do not treat them harshly."
(Apostle Paul - Colossians 3:19 Weymouth's New Testament)
"Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do."
[David Wilkerson]
"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred."
[Solomon in Proverbs 15:17]
"Love is a four-letter word composed of two consonants, L and V;
two vowels, O and E; and two fools, you and me."
[unknown]
"For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the
tax collectors do the same?"
[Jesus in Matthew 5:46]
"When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest,
I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now."
[C. S. Lewis]
"Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending...
We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending.
We love them because it's the right thing to do."
[Doug McIntosh]
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."
[Margaret Anderson)]
"The Ten Commandments are an expression of God's love carved in stone. We see
them as narrow restrictions but God meant them to be for our protection.
We view them as taking the fun out of life
but God uses them to point us to the source of life - Jesus Christ."
[R. Robert Flatt]
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned,
but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy;
love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
does not behave rudely, does not seek its own,
is not provoked, thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails."
[1 Corinthians 13:1 - 8a NKJV]
"Love is costly. To forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time.
To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way,
just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us
and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself."
[Jerry Bridges]
"Love communicates an immense value to our smallest actions."
[Sautereau]
"We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power.
Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
[William Gladstone]
"The success of a marriage comes not in finding the 'right' person, but in the ability of both partners
to adjust to the real person they inevitably realize they married."
(John Fisher)
"Romantic love is emotional. It has no rhyme or reason and it's conditioned by circumstance.
Real love is volitional. It is an act of the will to do what is best for a person and is oblivious to circumstance."
[David Joseph]
"The first duty of love is to listen."
[Paul Tillich]
"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
[1 Corinthians 13:13 NKJV]
"Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away."
[Tom Wilson]
"Patience with others is Love, patience with self is Hope, patience with God is Faith."
[Adel Bestavros ]
"We too often love things and use people,
when we should be using things and loving people."
[Unknown]
1 comments:
Valentines day is here again, sending cards with valentines day quotes is a cool way to greet our loved ones and friends. Thank you for sharing your collection of quotes.
Happy Valentines Day!
Cathy
http://cathy.snydle.com/valentines-day-quotes.html
¿Te animas a decir algo?