In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
~P. D. Ouspensky~

Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~Jeanne Moreau~

The best proof of love is trust
~Joyce Brothers~

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love.’ It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
~Lydia Maria Child~

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouilh~

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
~ Samuel Lover ~

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
~ Leo Buscaglia ~

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
~Leo Buscaglia~

Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
~ Josh Billings ~

Behind every successful man stands an amazed woman
~Anon~

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
~ Ivan Panin ~

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
~W. Somerset Maugham~

If I’m such a legend, why am I so lonely?
~Judy Garland~

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye
~H. Jackson Brown Jr~

A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.
~ John Wayne Schlatter ~

Perfect love is rare indeed – for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
~Leo Buscaglia~

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

Love is creation raised to a higher degree.
~Toyohiko Kagawa~

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
~Charles Caleb Colton~

One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
~Sophocles~

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
~Dr. Karl Menninger~

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.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together
~La Bruyere~

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

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
~J. Krishnamurti~

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain ~

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~Comte DeBussy-Rabutin~

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
~ Thomas Fuller ~

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~

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.
~Erich Fromm~

There is only one terminal dignity — love.
~Helen Hayes~

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
~ Honore de Balzac ~

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish,but that they cease to love.
~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

Love builds bridges where there are none.
~R. H. Delaney~

We can only learn to love by loving.
~ Iris Murdoch ~

The art of love … is largely the art of persistence.
~Albert Ellis~

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
~ Pearl S. Buck ~

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well
~John Gray~

All mankind love a lover.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are,your simple presence can make others happy.
~Jane Roberts~

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

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

Love is never having to ask.
~John Gray~

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit
~Kahlil Gibran~

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
~ Karen Sunde ~

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

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~Bertrand Russell~

A heart that loves is always young.
~ A Greek Proverb ~

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
~Victor Hugo~

Happiness and love are just a choice away.
~ Leo Buscaglia~

When a man loves a woman,periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer
~John Gray~

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve~
QUOTABLES QUOTES

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
~Milton Berle~

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
~Abigail Van Buren~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)~

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.
~Richard Nixon~

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
~William Blake~

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
~David Eddings~

A friend is a person who knows all about you–and still likes you.
~Elbert Hubbard~

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
~J. Danforth Quayle~

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~George Bernard Shaw ~

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
~Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885)~

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
~Epicetus~

In order to have friends, you must first be one.
~Elbert Hubbard~

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
~ Thomas Otway~

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
~Henry Ward Beecher~

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
~Booker T.Washington

Great thoughts come from the heart.
~Luc de Clapiers~

There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order.
~ Italo Bombolini~

Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
~Unknown ~

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
~Samuel Johnson~

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
~ Lord Byron~

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
~ Thomas Dunn English~

More important than how we live is how we spend each day.
~Unknown~

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Why do you take by force that which you could obtain by love?
~Powhatan~

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
~Confucius ( BC 551-479 )~

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

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
~ Harry F. Banks~

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
~Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)~

For fast acting relief try slowing down.
~ Lily Tomlin~

The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain
~Unknown~

What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love?
~Barbara Sher~

There is no such thing as a self-made man.We are made up of thousands of others.Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success.
~George Matthew Adams~

Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
~Gore Vidal ~

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
~ Mark Twain~