Love Quotes

"Love at first sight is possible, but it pays to take a second look." — 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

"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love." — Henry Miller
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"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." — Helen Schucman
A Course in Miracles (2008) pg. 204 Often misattributed to Jalal Rumi, this quote was actually written by Schucman, a research psychologist. This particular idea about love comes from Chapter 16 of her book, "The Forgiveness of Illusions." The entire book is essentially a guide for "spiritual transformation." Add Category or Author

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. " — Benjamin Disraeli
Henrietta Temple (1837) Book 4 chapter 1 Written in a book about a woman who Disraeli had an affair with (Henrietta Sykes). Add Category or Author

"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well being of ones companion." — Gordon B. Hinckley
Ensign (June 1971), og. 71-72 In the article this quote was obtained from, Hinckley spoke of the importance of marriage and it's far-reaching effects on both society and children. Add Category or Author

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." — Nikolaus von Jacquin
Mozart: A Life (1966) pg. 312 Often misattributed to Mozart, it was actually written in Mozart's souvenir album by Jacquin. Add Category or Author

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice." — Nora Roberts
As quoted in Rainbow Bridge Farm (2003) pg. 127 Add Category or Author

"Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again." — Author Unknown
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"Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge." — Benjamin Franklin
As quoted in Early American proverbs and proverbial phrases, (1977) pg. 309 A purveyor of proverbs, Franklin wasn't the first to express this sentiment, but he assuredly popularized it. Add Category or Author

"The one who loves least controls the relationship." — Author Unknown
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"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

"Do what you love and the money will follow." — Marsha Sinetar
Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow (2011) Comes from the title of Sinetar's book, which is a self-professed step-by-step guide to finding the work that fulfills oneself. The subtitle of the book is, "Discovering Your Right Livelihood." Add Category or Author

"Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." — Mother Teresa
As quoted in Research on altruism & love (2003) 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

"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee." — John Gay
The Wordsworth dictionary of proverbs (2006) pg. 208 This proverb is at least as old as 1581 and has no known author, though the sentiment has been expressed many times similarly. Add Category or Author

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." — George Moore
The Brook Kerith Ch. 11, (1916) From a very controversial book, for it's time, the story this quote is drawn from saw Jesus be both non-divine and go to India to seek knowledge. 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

"What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship." — George Eliot
George Eliot's life as related in her letters and journals Volume 1, (1895) pg. 212 Letter to Sara Hennel, in 1852. The line that follows sheds further light. Eliot continues, "...that hsa always been my firm faith about friendship; and now it is in a slight degree my experience." Add Category or Author