99+ Sweet Love Quotes

1.  Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Rowland, Helen
2. Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Sitting Bull
3. With our love, we could save the world. George Harrison
4. 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
5. The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. Basil Hume
6. There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. Frank Zappa
7. When our lips touch, I feel like I’m the luckiest guy alive. When I hold you in my arms, I feel as if time freezes and nothing can tear us apart. You constantly make me smile, and there’s never a moment that goes by that I don’t think of you. You mean the world to me and I don’t know what I’d do without you in my life. I truly love you. Richard M. Ryan
8. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
9. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. Chesterton, G.K.
10. Love can do much, but duty more. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes
12. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm
13. I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. Audrey Hepburn
14. Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner
15. In art as in love, instinct is enough. Anatole France
16. Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. Marcus Aurelius
17. The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. Angelina Jolie
18. If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin
19. It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley MacLaine
20. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin
21. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Williamson, Marianne
22. Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. George Jean Nathan
23. For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke
24. Though lovers be lost love shall not. Dylan Thomas
25. Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso
26. Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.  Unknown
27. Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French
28. You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. Pope John Paul II
29. The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine
31. A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal
32. But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Jesus Christ
33. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
34. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings
35. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. George S. Patton
36. Love is the flower you've got to let grow. John Lennon
37. Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. Billy Graham
38. I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. Leo Buscaglia
39. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst
40. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anais Nin
41. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Khalil Gibran
42. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schulz
43. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
44. Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung
45. Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. Honore de Balzac
46. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot
47. Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
48. There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. Bryant H. McGill
49. It is very easy to love alone. Gertrude Stein
50. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell
51. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. Jesus Christ
52. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa
53. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Simone de Beauvoir
54. So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. Robert Browning
55. My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. Michelle Obama
56. He that is jealous is not in love. Saint Augustine
57. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. Jimi Hendrix
58. What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? Friedrich Nietzsche
59. Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. Billie Holiday
60. What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. Saint Augustine
61. We pardon to the extent that we love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
62. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. Anais Nin
63. Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. Khalil Gibran
64. The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Oprah Winfrey
65. Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller
66. Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.  Ovid
67. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
68. Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. Dale Evans
69. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa
70. I have to admit that I fell in love twice. First was with you and the second was with the person you became when you were already mine. Unknown
71. Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. Maggie Gallagher
72. Do you have to have a reason for loving? Brigitte Bardot
73. All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. Nathaniel Hawthorne
74. Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (<u>As You Like It</u>) Shakespeare, William
75. You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. Adams, Henry
76. All love is lost but upon God alone. William Dunbar
77. I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror. Sid Vicious
78. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy
79. If you wished to be loved, love. Seneca
80. Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. William Congreve
81. I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent Van Gogh
82. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Rabindranath Tagore
83. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. Audrey Hepburn
84. First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. Maximilian Schell
85. I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength. Elisabeth Shue
86. The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.  Proverb
87. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
88. Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. Mae West
89. 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
90. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. Mother Teresa
91. Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. Glenn Hughes
92. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
93. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! Coco Chanel
94. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran
95. No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? Lee Iacocca
96. We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe
97. Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh
98. A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. Robert Frost
99. Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. Margaret Mead