Love - Quotes & Sayings

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

James A. Baldwin

That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.

Debbie Reynolds

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Maurice Chevalier

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

Theodore Zeldin

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

Gilbert Parker

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Joseph Campbell

I am doing what I love to do, and you cannot beat that, especially when the audience appreciates what you prepare for them. It's very, very gratifying.

Aretha Franklin

I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they're constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there's artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.

Christie Brinkley

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein

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

James Herriot

I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.

Kehlani

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Desmond Tutu

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.

Gene Simmons

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

Diane Ackerman

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

Jenn Proske

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

Diane Ackerman

True love lasts forever.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

James M. Barrie

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

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

Audrey Hepburn

Absence - that common cure of love.

Lord Byron

I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.

Bipasha Basu

In modeling, I had to learn to like myself, to love myself, to feel comfortable.

Mariacarla Boscono

Follow your heart. Do what you love. Because I was constantly struggling with that. If it's in your heart, go for it. Don't listen to other people.

Maz Jobrani

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

Kathy Freston

I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important.

Julianne Moore

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

Roxane Gay

The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

Kelly Clarkson

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Audrey Hepburn

As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.

Bindi Irwin

I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.

Adriana Lima

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

Christina Perri

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Bertrand Russell

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

Jim Parsons

I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.

Joe Carnahan

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

Taraji P. Henson

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Christie Brinkley

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

Lilly Singh

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

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Alain Badiou

It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.

Caitriona Balfe

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Deborah Norville

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Pope Francis

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

Eric Kandel