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This is a list of love quotes
A trap
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho
All we haveLove is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
Beautiful flowerLove 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
Beauty of the soulSince love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Born of loveWe are born of love; Love is our mother.
Rumi
But my heart
Conqueror
Cure of loveA pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
DarknessDarkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dirty trickLove is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
Even the rich!Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa
Every heart sings a songEvery heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet
Plato
ForeverHe is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides
Fortune and loveFortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
GesturesGestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais
Gravitation
Gross exagerationLove is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Holy fashionWhat a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
HoneyLife is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
I love mankindI love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I loved herI loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens
If I love you
If you loved someoneIf you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
George Orwell
In the heartThe way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha
In the same direction
Intense love
It can be a nightmareI'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
Paulo Coelho
It cultivates
It is better
It is like a friendship caught on fireLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
It takes us somewhereLove can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho
Jealous
Let them goIf you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Khalil Gibran
LoveLove is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere
Love and peaceIf someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon
Love begins at homeLove begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa
Love is a canvasLove is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Love is a smoke
Love looks with the mindLove looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
Loved and lovingBeing deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Loved or understood?Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell
Loving heart
Loving heart
Loving so easilyMy God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
D. H. Lawrence
Loving your creator
MelancholyAnd so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe
More than love
No companion but LoveI have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'
Rumi
Not only to be lovedI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
One is lovedOne is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho
One wordOne word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Sophocles
Only love canDarkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only more loveI have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
PassionIt is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot
Power and lovePower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reason and loveReason is not what decides love.
Moliere
Recognizing yourself in another
Selfishness and the mindAs selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
SmileLet us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
Someone to loveI 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
Speaking of loveIf you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
Twyla Tharp
Spiritual fireLove in its essence is spiritual fire.
Seneca
Spread loveSpread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
The birth of loveA very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
The course of love
The face of a manA woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
The flower of lifeLove is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
The garden of loveThe 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
The greatest pleasureThe greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides
The hunger for loveThe hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
The only gold
The people we love
The principle of love
The real loverThe real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
The same direction
They are necessitiesLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
They're in each otherThe 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
To fear loveTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Towards the other soulOne must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. Lawrence
True love
Truly artisticThe more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh
What is hell?What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What's invisible
Whatever you doWhatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.
Voltaire
When one is so sad
Without his wings
Years of love
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