Collection of famous love quotes.

"If you face a disappointment, you've got to come back. From a divorce, you've got to come back. It's going to hurt for a while, you've got to let it linger and do whatever it's going to do. But, then you've got to build back." - Jim Rohn

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away. - Michael W. Smith

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.- Jonathan Carroll

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special. - Jennifer Aniston

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn. - William Shakespeare

Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself. - Ken Keyes, Jr

Real love is simply accepting another person. Completely and unconditionally. - Russ Von Hoelscher.

When you fail to get the love of the person you cared for, you put your beautiful loving feelings back in your pocket and get on with your life. - Author Unknown

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm

To make other people the source of your love is to live your life as a complete emotional dependent, always moments from deep depression due to the words or actions of another. - Russ Von Hoelscher

Love is a force as real as gravity. - Deepak Chopra

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. - Kahlil Gibran

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. - Wallace Stegner

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. - Walker Percy

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. - Brendan Francis

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. - Mother Teresa

The quickest way to receive love is to give. The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly. And the best way to keep love is to give it wings. - Source Unknown

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball

What creates romance is the ability to see yourself as lovable. - Deepak Chopra

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. - Karen Casey

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. - Victor Hugo

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. - John Lennon

It would be impossible to love another person without first feeling love for yourself, because how could you give away something that you don't have. - Denis Waitley

To be trusted is greater that to be loved. To be trusted will also to be loved. - Stephen R. Covey

The key to staying in love is to talk, particularly about feelings. - Stephen R. Covey

If we want to be loved, the way to get it is to love. It is not only the very best method, but it is the only method. - Lester Levenson

The best portion of a good man's life, - his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth

Love is the ultimate, and the highest goal to which man can aspire. - Viktor Frankl

The salvation of man is through love and in love. - Viktor Frankl

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. - Bacher

We often love someone who represents an undeveloped part of ourselves. - Wayne Dyer

If all of us just loved and cared for one person each. That is all it takes. Love breeds love. - Yoko Ono

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde

The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality. - Henry David Thoreau

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint Exupery

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. - Benjamin Disraeli

Out of our loneliness, all of us seek a source of love that will fill the lack we feel inside. Whatever the need is, the person who fills it becomes the source of love. - Deepak Chopra

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life - Deepak Chopra

To value yourself is to love yourself - Deepak Chopra

To love, be loveable. - Ovid, Latin poet

People who really love you keep on loving you, even when you're not loving yourself. - Deepak Chopra

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another. - Henri Ameil

When you fall in love, you fall for a mirror of your own most present needs. - Deepak Chopra

Self love grows when you refuse to follow the impulses of anger and fear, trust that the universe is on your side, form you desires from the heart and watch the higher Self carry them out. - Deepak Chopra

Falling in love is the loss of solitude. - Deepak Chopra

Love is everywhere, but in some places it is blocked by fear. - Deepak Chopra

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates. - Deepak Chopra

When love is replaced by an object, the result is addiction. If you are addicted to someone else, you are treating that person as an object. - Deepak Chopra

Love never hurt anyone. We may have been hurt in the past by a lack of love or by a former love, but never by love itself. - Russ Von Hoelscher

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives. - Father Andrew SDC

Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else. - Joyce Cary

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. - Jennifer Aniston

Developing a healthy sense of self love is how to overcome fears of ever losing love. You can't lose what you yourself are. - Russ Von Hoelscher

Love is the best safeguard against emotional and physical problems. Lack of love and harmony creates an atmosphere of stress and tension. - Russ Von Hoelscher

Love and relationship start with you. - Russ Von Hoelscher

"I love you" really means "when I'm with you, I'm in touch with the beautiful, capable and lovable parts of me." - Russ Von Hoelscher

Love is communication at its highest form. - Russ Von Hoelscher

All things are possible for the love who is a believer. - Russ Von Hoelscher

Turn up your love - even if you don't get what you want. - Ken Keyes

Love and giving are two words that are synonymous. It's in the spirit of giving ness that the secret to joy lies. - Lester Levenson

Today, see if you can stretch you heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much. - Daphne Rose Kingman

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart. - Ken Keyes

When you love someone it means that he or she is putting you in touch with of part of you that you love in yourself. - Ken Keyes

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart. - Ken Keyes

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. - Barbara De Angelis

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. - Barbara De Angelis

Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with with each other. - M Scott Peck

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith

We receive love from our children as well as others not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our capacity to love. - Rollo May

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. - Barbara De Angelis

Sex is an expression of love, a source of pleasure. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be - Leo Tolstoi

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones. - Richard Bandler

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Angelina Jolie

The best proof of love is trust. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. - David Grayson

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken. - Karl Menninger

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen. - Francois de La Rouchfoucauld

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. - Margaret Anderson

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love will die through neglect just will a flower, tree or bush. - Zig Ziglar

What a grand thing to be loved; what a grander thing still to love. The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great. - Victor Hugo

Love is nurtured by acts and expression of love. Love will tarnish unless it is polished with daily applications of interest, involvement and expressions of love. - Zig Ziglar

The best time to express love for your mate is before someone else does. - Zig Ziglar

When we truly love others without condition, without strings, we help them feel secure and safe and validated and affirmed in their essential worth, identity, and integrity. - Stephen R. Covey

The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich

After you wave goodbye to your grieving and complaining about your loss, turn around and look at a new land. - Author unknown

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. - Elbert Hubbard

Every time you lose something, you should put something good back in your life. - Dr Joyce Brothers

Accept whatever happens - for now. Learn to accept the unacceptable. Forgive the unforgivable. Love the unlovable. - Ken Keyes

As long as you live, you will win some and you'll lose some. Things will go up and down. But your experience of life does not have to go up and down. - Ken Keyes

Divorce is an emotional earthquake. - Dr Joyce Brothers

Loss triggers the worst in most of us. - Dr Joyce Brothers

A little girl was returning from the house next door where her friend had just died and her father asked, "Where have you been?" "Next door," she answered. "Why did you go there?" asked the father. "To comfort the mother," said the girl. "How could you do that?" he asked. "I climbed into her lap and cried with her. - Anonymous

All losses have a common denominator. Loneliness. Loneliness comes in two flavors - social and emotional. Social loneliness is the wretched feeling of isolation, of not belonging. Intimate loneliness reflects the need to be intimate with someone who loves you and who is always there for you. - Dr Joyce Brothers

It is not the physical pain which hurts the most, it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all. - Viktor E Frankl

Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, "forget it," or "it will pass," or "it could be worse" - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, "It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process. - Peter Koestenbaum

The end is also the beginning. - Author unknown

When you are in the middle of an emotional earthquake, you can't always tell which way is up. - Dr Joyce Brothers

Loss of a particular relationship is unbearable when there is not relationship to self. - Wayne Dyer.

You can't put something down unless you've picked it up. You can't put tears behind until you've wept them. You can't let go off the past until you've grieved for it. - Author unknown

Some things aren't replaceable. You're not going to be able to get your dream back, but you can get your life back. - Author unknown

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. - Gwyneth Paltrow

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. - Robert H. Schuller

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends. - Richard Bach

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Author unknown

The end is the beginning of something new. - Author unknown

Tomorrow is a new day and time has a way of healing the pain of bad experiences. - Author unknown

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. - T.S. Eliot

The past is like a river flowing out of sight, The future is an ocean filled with opportunity and delight. - Anna Hoxie

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - a thought that is love. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. - William Durant

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. - Theophile Gautier

You need to feel love inside yourself before you can offer it to anyone else. - Denis Waitley

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. - Carter Heyward

Know that love and affection exist apart from the attachment, that you can love something and find it beautiful, without having to own or manipulate it, without having to make it your possession. - Richard R. Powell

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. - Ayn Rand

It is impossible to love and to be wise. - Francis Bacon

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered. - Merikare

Since you are in love with yourself, you are inclined to overestimate your own strengths, and underestimate your own weaknesses; equally you are inclined to underestimate the strengths of others, and overestimate their weaknesses. If you allow this attitude to grow freely, without any restraint, it becomes conceit. - Razi

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