Sweet Love Love Quotes

"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

"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be." — Robert Browning
Dramatis Personae "Rabbi Ben Ezra" (1864) This poem was written about 12th century Abraham ibn Ezra, a sort of "Renaissance man" before there was a Renaissance. The poem is an explanation of the ideas Ezra espoused in his life. 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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"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss." — Author Unknown
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"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." — 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

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars." — Henry Van Dyke
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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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"I think I would rather possess eyes that know no sight, ears that know no sound, hands that know no touch than a heart that knows no love." — Author Unknown
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"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things." — 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

"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

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

"Love ever gives,--
Forgives--outlives,--
And ever stands
With open hands.
And, while it lives,
It Gives.
For this is Love's prerogative,--
To give,--and give,--and give." — John Oxenham
The Vision Splendid (1917) pg. 74 From a poem titled, "Love ever gives" by the pseudonymous William Arthur Dunkerley, who often went by John Oxenham for his writing. Add Category or Author

"As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love." — Author Unknown
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"Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life." — Leo Buscaglia
Born for love: reflections on loving (1992) 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