Cute Love Editor's Pick Quotes

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." — Dr. Seuss
Widely attributed to Dr. Seuss (Real name of Theodor Seuss Geisel). Add Category or Author

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." — Roy Croft
The poem this is attributed to, by Roy Croft, is nearly identical to a German-language poem by Eric Fried titled "Ich liebe dich" ("I Love You"). Little is known about either poem, so it is difficult to say if Croft actually wrote this poem or if he translated Fried's poem and ended up with the credit. Often the quote is attributed to "Anonymous" or Elizabeth Browning, as well. Add Category or Author

"Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto." — Lope Vega
As quoted in Love by the Numbers: How to Find Great Love Or Reignite the Love You Have Through the Power of Numerology (2009) pg. 277 This quote is attributed to the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega, but no further contextual information is available. Add Category or Author

"We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else for us to find." — Author Unknown
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." — Mother Teresa
As quoted in Women Who Win at Work: Flowers of Wisdom from Visionary Businesswomen (2009) pg. 106 Add Category or Author

"Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend." — Author Unknown
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"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic." — Alphonse De Lamartine
Graziella, Pt. IV, ch. 5 (1849) The book's subtitle reads, "A Story of Italian Love." Add Category or Author

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." — James A. Baldwin
As quoted in Critical essays on James Baldwin (1988) Add Category or Author

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The works of Oliver Wendell Holmes...:A Moral Antipathy (1892) pg. 246 Thought by a doctor in Holmes's A Moral Antipathy, the character was speaking about how love can conquer fear, fear of women, specifically. Add Category or Author

"Love is like a game of chess: One false move and you're mated." — Author Unknown
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"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." — Anna Strong
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"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway." — Mother Teresa
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." — Robert A. Heinlein
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"Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior." — Amy Vanderbilt
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"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." — William Shakespeare
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have." — Author Unknown
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"Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." — Karl A. Menninger
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"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
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"Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other." — Walter Lippmann
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"Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy." — Ralph Connor
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