Quotations on Love

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If you would be loved, love.    - Hecato

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.  -  Unknown

We always love those who admire us. We do not always those whom we admire.               - Francois de la Rochfoucauld

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.  - - - Unknown

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?   - Stephen Levine

Love and you shall be loved.    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
   - David Grayson

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am but a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." -- Paul the Apostle, I Corinthians 13 (RSV)

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world. -- Emmet Fox

Within you, I lose myself, without you, I find myself, searching to be lost again. -- Source Unknown

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. -- Bertrand Russell

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -- Helen Keller

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything. -- Source Unknown

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I knew no other way than this, where 'I' does not exist, nor 'you'. So close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep....Pablo Neruda.