Love quotes, with sources
58 love quotes from 30 writers and thinkers, including Rabindranath Tagore, Kahlil Gibran, The Bible, George MacDonald, The Buddha. Closeness, longing, and kindness Every quote below names the work it comes from.
Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved.
Remembrance is a form of meeting.
The pleasure of love is in loving.
You must get your living by loving.
We live in this world when we love it.
We are not made for law, but for love.
Let me keep your footprints in my heart.
Forgiveness is love towards the unlovely.
Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
Love which is not always springing is always dying.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.
Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves but by love.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Love was His meaning.
Love is the only ecstasy.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
I bear no resentment toward those who condemned me.
We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
We will not be content till our very anger is love.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong.
Love is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine.
Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us!
Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
The more that he gives to others, the more does he have himself.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small.
God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself: for Thou art enough to me.
My friends are my “estate.” Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
Love is a word of light, written by a hand of light, upon a page of light.
The shortest way to go straight to God was by a continual exercise of love.
Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.
Against the great superiority of another there is no remedy but love.
Love spontaneously gives itself in endless gifts.
Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.
That only which is done for love is done freely, however much pain it may cause.
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.
My mercy embraceth all things.
Love is a Divine gift, not anything that can be acquired.
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