20 Quotes About Love

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
-- Leo F. Buscaglia

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
-- Author Unknown

Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
-- From the movie Moulin Rouge

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
-- Leo Tolstoy

And here is my heart which beats only for you.
-- Paul Verlaine

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet...
-- Plato

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu

Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to our souls.
-- Author Unknown

But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
-- Robert Burns
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
-- Author Unknown

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
-- Oscar Hammerstein

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
-- Erica Jong

Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
-- Anonymous

Don't hug me, it only makes me want to never let go.
-- Allison Mosher

Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it.
-- Author Unknown

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.
-- Leland Thomas

Goodnight! Goodnight!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.
-- William Shakespeare

I am so glad that you are here... It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
-- Goethe

I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can't even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.
-- Sarah Mimnaugh