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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
— John Keats
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
— Bertrand Russell
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
— Henri Nouwen
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
— Lord Byron
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
— Torquato Tasso
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
— Brian Tracy
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.
— Kirsten Dunst
True love stories never have endings.
— Richard Bach
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
— Rumi
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
— Orson Welles
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
— Jim Morrison
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
— Max Muller
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
— Marilyn Monroe
Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.
— David Gest
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
— Josh Billings
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
— Marcus Aurelius
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
— Ram Dass
I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!
— Barack Obama
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
— Denis Waitley
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
— A. J. McLean
Who so loves believes the impossible.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
— Albert Einstein
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
— Constantin Stanislavski
Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.
— Mario Teguh
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
— Jimi Hendrix
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
— James E. Faust
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
— Saint Basil
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
— Abhishek Bachchan
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
— Stevie Wonder
You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister.
— Esha Gupta
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
— Evel Knievel
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
— Dalai Lama
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
— Oscar Wilde
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
— Taylor Swift
The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
— Yoko Ono
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
— Qandeel Baloch
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
— Kinky Friedman
Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.
— Joel Osteen
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
— Jean de La Fontaine
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
— John Lennon
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
— Julia Child
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
— William Blake
True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
— Ricardo Montalban
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
— Mother Teresa
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
— Lord Byron
I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile.
— Victoria Beckham
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
— Charles Kuralt
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.
— Lilly Singh
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
— Zane Grey
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
— Washington Irving
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
— Paul Sweeney
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
— Tom Petty
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
— George Bernard Shaw
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
— David Frost
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
— Barack Obama
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
— Robert Wagner
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
— Kelly Clarkson
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.
— John O'Donohue
We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.
— Brandon Jenner
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
— Torquato Tasso
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
— Lucille Ball
I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.
— Julianne Hough
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
— Peter Ustinov
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
— Buddha
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
— John Lennon
Love has a tide!
— Helen Hunt Jackson
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
— Abraham Lincoln
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
— Radhanath Swami
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
— Pietro Aretino
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
— Rumi
We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.
— David A. Bednar
A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
— Mike White
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
— Maya Angelou
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 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
We are born of love, Love is our mother. 
— Rumi
You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
— Karen Salmansohn
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
— Jesus Christ
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
— Katharine Lee Bates
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
— Don Miguel Ruiz
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
— Ellen DeGeneres
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.
— Juliette Binoche
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.
— Goldie Hawn
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
— Mother Teresa
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
— Bernie Siegel
Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
— Ariana Grande
There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
— Eugene Kennedy
Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.
— Joel Osteen
I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.
— Cindy Morgan
Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. 
— Barbara De Angelis
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree. 
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
— Ernest Hemingway
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
— Francis of Assisi
I love you more than my own skin.
— Frida Kahlo
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
— William Shakespeare
Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. 
— Mother Teresa
I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.
— Julian Lennon
I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
— Mike May
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
— Ferdinand Foch
An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.
— Zoe Foster Blake
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
— Rumi
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
— Jimmy Dean
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
— Brene Brown
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
— Wendell Pierce
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
— Jennifer Lopez
True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
— Sadhu Vaswani
I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
— Conor Oberst
I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.
— Kyle Chandler
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.
— Martin Garrix
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes. 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
— Deepak Chopra
If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
— Christian Louboutin
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
— Garrison Keillor
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
— Conor Oberst
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
— Helen Keller
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.
— Lou Holtz
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
— Buddha
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
— John Lennon
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
— Rufus Wainwright
A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.
— Theodore Zeldin
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.
— Andy Serkis
You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.
— Tommy Lasorda
I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your soulmate doesn't have to be your partner - your soulmate could be your best friend, your sibling, it doesn't have to be the person you marry.
— Cheryl Cole
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
— Yogi Berra
I absolutely love spending time with my family.
— Kevin Alejandro
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
— Marc Anthony
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
Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!
— Suzanne Brockmann
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
— Mao Zedong
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
— Brene Brown
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
— Jimi Hendrix
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
— Amy Purdy
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
— Mother Teresa
What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.
— Kelly Brook
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
— Victor Hugo
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.
— Katharine McPhee
With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.
— Joyce Giraud
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
— Saint Augustine
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
— William Shakespeare
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
— Kailash Kher
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
— Mother Teresa
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
— Lawrence Welk
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
— Marilyn Monroe
I'm not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What's wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
— Johnny Weir
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
— Eckhart Tolle
I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.
— Shakira
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
— Saint Augustine
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
— Khalil Gibran
My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and she motivates me to be a kid again.
— Christina Milian
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
— Erich Fromm
I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.
— Jeremy Sisto
My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.
— RJ Mitte
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
— Tony Hawk
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
— Buffalo Bill
I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.
— Tracee Ellis Ross
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
— Rumi
No one can make you happy. No one can help you grow in life more than you can. I can love you to death, but I can only go so far. I can inspire and encourage you as much as I can, but when you play an active role to find that self-security and that self-worth, it makes the difference.
— Musiq Soulchild
My eye is ever on those who love me.
— Sai Baba
In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.
— Juan Pablo Galavis
You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'
— Ricky Martin
In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
— Eckhart Tolle
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
— Khalil Gibran
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
— Derek Jeter
We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.
— Sheena Easton
I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely.
— Justin Chatwin
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
— Thomas Merton
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
— W. Somerset Maugham
In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
— Marla Gibbs
We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate then it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it's what we were born to do.
— Grace Gealey
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
— Charles de Gaulle
The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.
— Alain de Botton
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
— Sai Baba
Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn't love; it happens.
— Katrina Kaif
Love is friendship set on fire.
— Jeremy Taylor
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.
— Ellen G. White
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
— Barbara Hershey
Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.
— Domhnall Gleeson
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
— Mignon McLaughlin
You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
— Jennifer Lopez
Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.
— Dylan Lauren
Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.
— Donald Trump, Jr.
When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.
— Beyonce Knowles
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
— Robert Browning
Grief is the price we pay for love.
— Queen Elizabeth II
The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.
— Michel Houellebecq
If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.
— Dwayne Johnson
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
— Lord Byron
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
— Ariana Grande
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
— John Ruskin
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay: well, the fact that I'm flamboyantly gay.
— Ross Mathews
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
— Petrarch
Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
— Domhnall Gleeson
Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.
— Jenna Morasca
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
— Nikola Tesla
Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families - all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.
— Michelle Obama
I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
— Honore de Balzac
I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.
— Heather Morris
Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each other and who have decided to commit to each other for the exact same reasons any other couple would get married.
— Luke Macfarlane
To love is to act.
— Victor Hugo
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
— Rumi
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.
— Duane Michals
The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.
— Chelsea Leyland
Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
— Cory Booker
My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.
— Jenn Proske
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
— Stendhal
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
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
— Khalil Gibran
Football is unconditional love.
— Tom Brady
I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
— Caleb Johnson
Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love for one's parents, spouses and children, the love for one's own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for one's country and fellow people.
— Kim Jong-un
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
— Maria Montessori
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
— Hippocrates
I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.
— Bryan Batt
I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.
— Sonam Kapoor
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
— Jesus Christ
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.
— James E. Faust
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
— Daisaku Ikeda
It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.
— Emma Watson
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
— Alan Furst
But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
— Evan Peters
Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
— Alexander the Great
True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
— Julia Roberts
What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
— Jamie Oliver
I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
— Babyface
People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.
— Simon Cowell
I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
— Natalie Portman
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
— Mother Teresa
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
— Demetri Martin
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
— Larry Flynt
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
— Marc Chagall
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
— Adam Braun
You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
— Brene Brown
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
— William Arthur Ward
Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
— Zendaya
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
— Julius Caesar
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.
— Kevin DeYoung
No human creature can give orders to love.
— George Sand
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.
— Kevin Durant
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
— Nicholas Sparks
I love to be outdoors, so I like to hike, bike and go to the beach.
— Jillian Rose Reed
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
— Kate Forsyth
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
— Ram Dass
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
— Henri Nouwen
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
— James Altucher
Follow your heart. Do what you love. Because I was constantly struggling with that. If it's in your heart, go for it. Don't listen to other people.
— Maz Jobrani
Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.
— David Chang
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
— Rumi
I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.
— Leah Remini
Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.
— Victoria Osteen
I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.
— Marina and the Diamonds
Our first and last love is self-love.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
— Afrika Bambaataa
True generosity is an offering given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share. 
— Suze Orman
Accept yourself, love yourself.
— Chanel Iman
I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.
— Bipasha Basu
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
— Rafael Nadal
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
— Swami Sivananda
Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
— Thomas Wolfe
I love being my husband's wife.
— Julianna Margulies
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
— St. Jerome
Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
— Peter Capaldi
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
— Billie Holiday
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
— Barry Williams
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
— Rumi
I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.
— Joy Fielding
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
— Dalai Lama
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
— Ayn Rand
I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things. 
— Martin Henderson
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
— Bruce Forsyth
Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body it's truly love. 
— Giada De Laurentiis
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
— Miguel de Unamuno
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
— Stendhal
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
— Sachin Tendulkar
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
— Caroline Knapp
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
— John Galsworthy
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
— William Shakespeare
I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
— Keanu Reeves
Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.
— Chill Wills
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
— Adam Green
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
— Karen Kain
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
— Ric Ocasek
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
— Oprah Winfrey
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. 
— Saint Teresa of Avila
Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
— Lynn Coady