20 quotes related to love

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. Sometimes love blinds us, other times it let’s us see.

George Bernard Shaw

The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

Ralph Connor

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mahatma Ghandi

If you have it, Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

James M. Barrie

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

Katharine Hepburn

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Bible (1 Corinthians 13:4)

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

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

Mother Teresa

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond