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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.

The Buddha, The Dhammapada, Chapter I (Yamakavagga), Verse 5 (tr. F. Max Müller, 1881)

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter XXIII

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter IX

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Ch. 40, 1868

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

The Bible, 1 John 1 John 4:18a

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Vol. I, Book Fifth, Ch. IV

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam, Sand and Foam

The pleasure of love is in loving.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 259

You must get your living by loving.

Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle, 1863

We live in this world when we love it.

Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, No. 279

We are not made for law, but for love.

George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons

Let me keep your footprints in my heart.

Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

Forgiveness is love towards the unlovely.

George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, It Shall Not Be Forgiven

Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI, Ch. 3

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, Scene I

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam, Sand and Foam

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Proverbs of Hell

Love which is not always springing is always dying.

Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam, Sand and Foam

It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, On Giving

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius, The Analects, Book XV, Chapter XXIII

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr's Island, 1862

Because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Poem 95

Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI, Ch. 3

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The Bible, Proverbs Proverbs 17:17

I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves but by love.

Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By, Ch. XII

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

The Bible, Matthew Matthew 5:9

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

The Bible, John John 15:13

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860

There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part I, Reading and Writing

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

The Bible, 1 Corinthians 1 Corinthians 13:13

Love was His meaning.

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, Ch. 86

Love is the only ecstasy.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Vol. V, Book Sixth, Ch. II

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, On Love

I bear no resentment toward those who condemned me.

Socrates, Apology (Plato), Section 33

We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, No. 9

We will not be content till our very anger is love.

George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

The Bible, 1 John 1 John 4:8

It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII, 22

Love is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine.

Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, No. 284

Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us!

The Buddha, The Dhammapada, Chapter XV, Verse 197

Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone.

Plato, Symposium, Speech of Phaedrus

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, On Love

The more that he gives to others, the more does he have himself.

Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 81

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part the Seventh

God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself: for Thou art enough to me.

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, Ch. 5

My friends are my “estate.” Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

Emily Dickinson, Letter to Samuel Bowles, August 1858

Love is a word of light, written by a hand of light, upon a page of light.

Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam, Sand and Foam

The shortest way to go straight to God was by a continual exercise of love.

Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God, Conversations

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, No. 33

Against the great superiority of another there is no remedy but love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections, Life and Character, no. 270

Love spontaneously gives itself in endless gifts.

Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana: The Realisation of Life, Ch. V, Realisation in Love

Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.

Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana: The Realisation of Life, Ch. V, Realisation in Love

That only which is done for love is done freely, however much pain it may cause.

Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana: The Realisation of Life, Ch. IV, The Problem of Self

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.

The Bible, Isaiah, Isaiah 66:13

My mercy embraceth all things.

The Quran, The Quran, 7:156

Love is a Divine gift, not anything that can be acquired.

Al-Hujwiri, The Kashf al-Mahjub, Ch. XIX

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