'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

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.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

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.

All mankind love a lover.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

All you need is love.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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.

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.

But love's a malady without a cure.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Do all things with love.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

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

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

For love is immortality.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

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.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

He that is jealous is not in love.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

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.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

I love a natural look in pictures.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

I love life because what more is there?

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I love to hit people. I love to.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I love you more than my own skin.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

I'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.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

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.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

If you wished to be loved, love.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

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.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

It is very easy to love alone.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

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.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

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.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Love conquers all.

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

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.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

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

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Love is being stupid together.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Love is blind.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

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

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Love 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.

Love is love's reward.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

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

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited.

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.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

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.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Love is the only gold.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Love is trembling happiness.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

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

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

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.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

One is very crazy when in love.

One must not trifle with love.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

People everywhere love Windows.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.