Love inspirational Quotes

"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

"If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action." — Leo Buscaglia
Love (1985) In the synopsis of the 1985 version of the book, it reads, " Among many other lessons of the heart, Leo Buscaglia reminds us: Love is open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself." Add Category or Author

"Life has taught us that 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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"The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite." — William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet Act II, scene ii "Spoken by Juliet to Romeo, the lines before the quote read, "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep..." Add Category or Author

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collected maxims and other reflections (2007) pg. 23 Rochefoucauld was a French author known for his maxims and proverbs. Add Category or Author

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." — Henry David Thoreau
Journal (July 25 1839) From Thoreau's journal. Add Category or Author

"But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever." — Robert Burns
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2 Burns was involved with a married woman who he referred to as "Clarinda." This poem was written to her after she left him to attempt to save her marriage. Add Category or Author

"The first duty of love is to listen." — Paul Tillich
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"Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you." — Paul Verlaine
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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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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." — James A. Baldwin
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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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"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them." — Richard Evans
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"When love is not madness, it is not love." — Pedro Calderon
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Who so loves believes the impossible." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The loving are the daring." — Bayard Taylor
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"We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." — William Channing
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"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice." — Tom Watson
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"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." — William Dixon
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"The course of true love never did run smooth." — William Shakespeare
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