Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

I've learned that no matter what happens or how bad it seems today life does go on and it will be better tomorrow.

Oh the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

We live in the world when we love it.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

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

You can't buy love but you can pay heavily for it.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

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

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Where there is love there is life.

Where there is FAITH there is LOVE, Where there is LOVE, there is PEACE, Where there is PEACE, there is GOD, Where there is GOD, there is BLISS.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

When love is not madness it is not love.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Even when love isn't enough... somehow it is.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

Life is one big road with lots of signs, So when you riding through the ruts, don't you complicate your mind: Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy! Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!

If you would be loved love and be loveable.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Love gives beauty to everything it touches.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

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

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy but the bible says love your enemy.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?

I sustain myself with the love of family.

If I loved you less I might be able to talk about it more.

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.

I will love the light, for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness, because it shows me the stars.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, – Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Goodness armed with power is corrupted, and pure love without power is destroyed.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness of witherings of tarnishings.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

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

Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

Hatred does not cease by hatred but only by love, this is the eternal rule.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Love is a friendship set to music.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - always.

Love all men without distinction, Know that mankind is a single community.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. 

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however it can spoil it too.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his personal legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t a true love… The love that speaks the language of the world.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

I am one who loved not wisely but too well.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

What we need is love to guide and protect us on.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

To be wise and love, exceeds man’s might.

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

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

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.

Love would never leave us alone.

Then I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.

Love is of all passions the strongest for it attacks simultaneously the head the heart and the senses.

No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Love is like a child, that longs for everything it can come by.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

Love is the answer but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.

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.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred, it will be stilled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

Jealously is always born with love, but it does not die with it.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body but whatever it was that made her body live.

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

Love is trembling happiness.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover everyone becomes a poet.

Absence - that common cure of love.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight, it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

In itself homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man, either a human being without feeling fear, restraint or obligation.

For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

I was adored once too.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Those whom we can love we can hate, to others we are indifferent.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Love is a trap. When it appears we see only its light, not its shadows.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity, in a girl boldness.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.

In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

You can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love and peace.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

If others must serve you, serve them first, love begets love, trust engenders trust.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Before marriage a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage she has to hold him to make love to him.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

I haven't had that one great love which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Let none think to fly the danger, for soon or late love is his own avenger.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above, those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

From your parents you learn love, and laughter, and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.

What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes, he who loves no one has no woes.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

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

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them, and so perhaps it would if they had it.

I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Love begins at home and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

Girls we love for what they are, young men for what they promise to be.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Religion is lovable because it is loved. Philosophy is loved because it is lovable.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Speak low if you speak love.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty and love from woes.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Do what you love. Know your own bone, gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it and gnaw it still.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All because I love you. All because you love me.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does, and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves their conduct will pursue their principles unto death.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Most people would rather get than give affection

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Dispel desire, Develop true love.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine and man cannot live without love.