Quotes - Love

 There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. 
  ~ Mother Teresa

  Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. 
  ~ Henry Ward Beecher 

  You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. 
  ~ Henry Drummond 

  Treasure the love you receive above all. 
It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
  ~ Og Mandino 

  The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. 
  ~ Pearl S. Buck

  Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
  ~ Marguerite De Valois 

  All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand. 
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: 
effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. 
  ~ Germaine De Stael 

  Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
  ~ Germaine De Stael 

  The loving are the daring.
  ~ Bayard Taylor 

  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
  ~ Mother Teresa 

  The only gift is a portion of thyself.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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

  Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
  ~ Robert Browning 

  Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:  
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.  
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall. 
  ~ UB40 

  Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion 
that each include the other, 
each is enriched by the other. 
  ~ Felix Adler
 
  Think about it, there must be higher love 
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above 
Without it, life is a wasted time 
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine. 
  ~ Steve Winwood 

  Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. 
  ~ Cathy Carlyle 

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

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

  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 

  Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. 
There�s too much fraternizing with the enemy. 
  ~ Henry Kissinger 

  To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, 
to find the best in others, to give one's self... 
this is to have succeeded. 
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

  Kindness in words creates confidence. 
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. 
Kindness in giving creates love. 
  ~ Lao Tzu 

  The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. 
  ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel 

  Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: 
our love to others, and others' love to us. 
  ~ Thomas Trahern 

  Love is always bestowed as a gift -- 
freely, willingly, and without expectation.... 
We don't love to be loved; we love to love. 
  ~ Leo Buscaglia 
  

  It is best to love wisely, no doubt; 
but to love foolishly is better than 
not to be able to love at all. 
  ~ William Thackeray 

  Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. 
  ~ Fulton J. Sheen 

  We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place 
in ourselves for those who love us. 
  ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux 

  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