Love Quotes

“Love can tame the wildest.”
– Aesop

“Where there is love, there is no effort.”
– Amma, The Hugging Saint

“If you want love, love somebody.”
– Dr. Michael Beckwith

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha

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

“Real love always creates, it never destroys. In this, lies man’s only promise.”
– Leo Buscaglia in “Love”

“If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying ‘YES’ to love.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Open your heart to Love and Love will open your heart”
– Karen Casey

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“In true love you want your partner to be happy.
In false love you want your partner.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“All I know of love is Love is all there is.”
– Emily Dickinson

“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

“A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Love as much as you can from wherever you are. ”
– Thaddeus Golas

“It’s not all about the money. It’s about the love.”
– Bentley Green, 6 year old rapper on Ellen

“Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh in “Touching Peace”

“What a grand thing, to be loved. What a grander thing still to love!
– Victor Hugo

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Keen

“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

“From my own limited experience I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.”
– H.H. Dalai Lama

“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”
– H.H. Dalai Lama

“Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.”
– H.H. Dalai Lama

“Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life and when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful – a thought that is love.”
– Mary Manin Morrissey

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
– Thomas Merton

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it”.
~ Rumi

“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
– Charles Augustine Sainte-Bueve

“Do ordinary things with extraordinary Love.”
– Mother Teresa

“It is not how much we do or how big the things are but how much love we put into doing.”
– Mother Teresa

“We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”
– Mother Teresa

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
– Mother Teresa

“Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.”
– Brian Tracy

“You really have to love what you are doing, so you don’t give up.”
– Donald Trump