99 Quotes To Understand Love

1.  I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Beecher, Henry Ward
2. 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
3. Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery
4. We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
5. Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Milan Kundera
6. Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. Robert A. Heinlein
7. I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. Bob Dylan
8. If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours. Charles Caleb Colton
9. Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. Albert Ellis
10. But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. Jose Marti
11. I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic. Drew Barrymore
12. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. Shakespeare, William
13. A soul mate is someone who you carry with you forever. It’s the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would. Dawson Leery
14. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. Jimi Hendrix
15. Love is too young to know what conscience is. William Shakespeare
16. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.  Wilder, Thornton
17. Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. Corneille, Pierre
18. If I love you, what business is it of yours? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
19. I love to hit people. I love to. Mike Tyson
20. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. H. L. Mencken
21. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare
22. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise L. Hay
23. True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. Torquato Tasso
24. I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. Chuck Palahniuk
25. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Davis, Bette
26. In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. Tori Amos
27. Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. Fulton J. Sheen
28. Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. Warhol, Andy
29. Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. Paulo Coelho
30. Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Igor Stravinsky
31. 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
32. I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand
33. Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. A. J. McLean
34. Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest ofyour life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you. Unknown
35. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot
36. Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke
37. I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time. Freddy Fender
38. The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness. Victor Hugo
39. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
40. Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. John Dryden
41. And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. Michelle Obama
42. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran
43. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton
44. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland
45. All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. Ovid
46. They do not love that do not show their love. William Shakespeare
47. A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
48. Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme. Francis Beaumont
49. I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. Audrey Hepburn
50. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde
51. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa
52. Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. Voltaire
53. Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Henny Youngman
54. A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. Abraham Joshua Heschel
55. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy
56. True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
57. I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. Margaret Thatcher
58. 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
59. If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain. Unknown
60. Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. Woody Allen
61. Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. Ninon de L'Enclos
62. If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! Marie de France
63. Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. Joyce Brothers
64. Love can do much, but duty more. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
65. 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
66. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir
67. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde
68. Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. Drew Barrymore
69. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson
70. Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love. Gabriel Byrne
71. Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore
72. Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa
73. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
74. My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. Barack Obama
75. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. Khalil Gibran
76. A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden
77. Who loves, raves. Lord Byron
78. Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. Leo Buscaglia
79. If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. Ronald Reagan
80. Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. Wayne Dyer
81. Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi
82. Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. William Shakespeare
83. The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love. Henry Miller
84. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. Marilyn Monroe
85. This love is silent. T. S. Eliot
86. Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.  La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois
87. If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. Francis Quarles
88. Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. Dinesen, Isak
89. If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. Benjamin Franklin
90. Speak low, if you speak love. William Shakespeare
91. What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis
92. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. Max Muller
93. God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.' Billy Graham
94. Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. H. L. Mencken
95. People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff. Clint Eastwood
96. If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
97. Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. Marilyn Monroe
98. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. Colton, Charles C.
99. Only do what your heart tells you. Princess Diana