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Quotes About Love

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds
~ Unknown
Love is to wish as wish is to dream as if you really believe it could happen.
~ Unknown
Love expands.
~ Hugh Prather
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
~ Unknown
When we love, we admire with the heart.
~ Anonymous
Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.
~ Tennessee Williams
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
~ George Eliot
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
~ Unknown
Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved?
~ Anzia Yenerska
Ultimately love is everything.
~ M Scott Peck
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.
~ Bob Phillips
Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
~ Virgil
Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted.
~ Rena Harmon
When love is found, it is hard to forget where it is.
~ Unknown
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Indian Spiritual leader - Founder of the Ramakrishna Order of Monks There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.
~ Barbara Howar
My nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love?s sake. I can not trade in love.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
~ Julian Barnes
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.
~ Bible
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love
~ Unknown
There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
~ Coco Chanel
I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
~ Beverly Sills
For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go.
~ Laurence Hope