I once came across a lovely quotation that said that the best romantic relationship is not about warm fuzzy feelings, candlelight dinners, compatibility, babies and sweet nothings, but is the one that helps you achieve your highest potential.
Controversial as we may say, it did ring the big bell and I went searching for that quotation once again. I have not found it but ended up discovering so much more.
Here are some of my handpicked quotations on Love that I came across during my search. I wanted to share these, hoping that they too resonate with you. Or even better, igniting you to go and search for that perfect quote that moves you.
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To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
Ayn Rand
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do all things with love.
Og Mandino
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton
With love one can live even without happiness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
Torquato Tasso
For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Ultimately love is everything.
M. Scott Peck
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
Mother Teresa
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
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So, which one is it? Which quote rules you? If not from this list, please do share your favorite for for it will only reveal more of you in a lovely way.
Monisha Jain says..
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate
Kokila Gupta says..
beautiful collection Ishrath.The last two from this resonated well with me ..and one of my all time favourite is “Heart has its own reasons which reason knows nothing about”
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Love n cheers.
Venkatakrishnan says..
Nice collection. Thanks for sharing.
Below is my set of quotes on love that I had read.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. – George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. – George Bernard Shaw
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. – William Shakespeare
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. -William Wordsworth
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. – Lord Byron
Ishrath Humairah says..
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw”
Hmmmm… true. Everything is about hunger.