Love Quotes and Sayings
Romantic Quotes and Sayings

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

 

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot

Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Lovers embrace that which is between them
rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles

If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine

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

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

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

I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

All you need is love.
- John Lennon

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna

The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell

Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

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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