‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.-Alfred Lord Tennyson
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.-Orson Welles
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.-Mother Teresa
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.-Leo Buscaglia
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.-Henry Van Dyke
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ – Erich Fromm
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.-Loretta Young
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.-Oscar Wilde
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.-Ferdinand Foch
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.-Victor Hugo
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.-David Viscott
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.-Franklin P. Jones
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.-John Galsworthy
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.-Billie Holiday
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. – Torquato Tasso
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.-Karl A. Menninger
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.-Max Muller
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.-David Wilkerson
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.-Virginia Satir
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.-Kristin Chenoweth
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.-Gilbert Parker
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.-Dalai Lama
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.-Victor Hugo
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.-Khalil Gibran
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.-Samuel Lover
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.-Tom Robbins
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.-Ingrid Bergman
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.-Erich Segal
Love is a game that two can play and both win.-Eva Gabor
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.-Brendan Behan
The first duty of love is to listen.-Paul Tillich
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.-Javan
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.-Zelda Fitzgerald
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.-Theophile Gautier
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.-Emily Bronte
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.-Jules Renard
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.-Thomas a Kempis
Fortune and love favor the brave.-Ovid
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.-Mother Teresa
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.-Jean Anouilh
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.-Albert Ellis
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.-Andre Breton
Great thoughts come from the heart.-Luc de Clapiers
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.-Rainer Maria Rilke
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.-Jesus Christ
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.-Martin Luther King, Jr.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.-Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.-Aristotle
Where there is love there is life.-Mahatma Gandhi
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.-Ray Stannard Baker
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. – Drew Barrymore
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.-Plato
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.-Lao Tzu
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.-Carl Sagan
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.-Thomas Fuller