#love

“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.”

— Bruce Lee

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”

— David Wilkerson

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

— Victor Hugo

“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

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”

— Lucille Ball

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”

— George Eliot

“Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.”

— John Lennon

“He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.”

— Henri Matisse

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”

— Madame de Stael

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

— Maya Angelou

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

— David Viscott

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

— Paul McCartney

“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”

— Beyonce Knowles

“Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you’ve been together, it’s all about how much you love each other every day.”

— Unknown

“True love stories never have endings.”

— Richard Bach

“Love is not consolation. It is light.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

— James Baldwin

“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.”

— Plato

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”

— Teresa of Avila

“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”

— Loretta Young

“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”

— Petrarch

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

— Blaise Pascal

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.”

— James Thurber

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare

“Emotions aren't that hard to borrow when love's the word, and you follow.”

— Neil Diamond

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

— George Sand

“Love is the absence of judgment”

— Dalai Lama

“We are all fools in love.”

— Jane Austen

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

“Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.”

— Satchel Paige

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

— John Ruskin

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa