Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. ~Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. ~Thomas à Kempis
Hatred can be overcome only by love. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~G. K. Chesterton
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. ~Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. ~Author Unknown
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Always love your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde
Don’t tell me you love me; show me that you do. ~Omage Jossy
You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~Anonymous
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato
Love is the only gold. ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Love doesn’t cause pain – people do. ~Anonymous
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~Anonymous
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ~Dr. Karl Menninger
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ~Roy Croft
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. ~Pietro Aretino
When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything. ~Maxim Gorky
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~Jimi Hendrix
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. ~Jules Renard
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. ~Osho
Just the thought of being with you tomorrow is enough to get me through today. ~Anonymous
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still. ~Leo Buscaglia
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. ~Thomas Mann
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. ~Anita Brookner
A bell is not a bell until you ring it; A song is not a song until you sing it. Love in your heart is not put there to stay; Love is not love until you give it away. ~Oscar Hammerstein II
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. ~Marianne Williamson
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. ~Unknown Author
There is no disguise, which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ~La Rochefoucauld
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. ~Agnes Repplier
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is not something you feel. It’s something you do. ~David Wilkerson
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible
to love without giving. ~Richard Braunstien
Love thine enemies…it really pisses them off. ~Anonymous
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. ~Fyodor Doestoyevsky
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Herbert
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton
Expect the people you love to be better. It helps them to become better. But don’t get upset when they fail. It helps them keep trying. ~Anonymous
God’s grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love. ~Henry W. Beecher
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive. ~O. A. Battista
I have no regrets. I will never regret loving someone because the feeling of love for five minutes is greater than an eternity of hurt. ~Kurt Langner
Grace is God’s love in action for those who don’t deserve it. ~Robert Schuller
If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love. ~Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. ~Ivan Panin
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. . . Let a man overcome anger by love. ~Buddha
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Love is a painkiller. ~African proverb
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. ~Swedish proverb
True love means what’s mine is yours. ~African proverb
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking. ~Chinese proverb
Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly. ~Congolese proverb
You know who you love, but you can’t know who loves you. ~Nigerian proverb
Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you. ~African proverb
If there is cause to hate someone, the cause to love has just begun. ~Wolof proverb
Love can not grow without passion. ~Greek proverb
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. ~English proverb
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. ~Moroccan proverb
He who doesn’t feel jealousy is not in love. ~African proverb
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. ~Sudanese proverb
If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together again. ~Malagasy proverb
It’s better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to fall in love and break your heart. ~African proverb
A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African proverb
Why take away something by force which you can obtain by love. ~African proverb
To be able to love other people you must be able to love yourself. ~African proverb
Love is like cough you can’t hold it back. ~African proverb
Whom we love best, to them we can say least. ~English proverb
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NASB)
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:7-12 NASB)
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also. (1 John 4:18-21 NASB)
“You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?” (Matthew 5:43-46 NASB)
Love Me by Amanda Nicole Martinez
Love me in the Springtime, when all is green and new,
Love me in the Summer, when the sky is oh so blue,
Love me in the Autumn, when the leaves are turning brown,
Love me in the Winter, when the snow is falling down.
Love me when I’m happy, and even when I’m sad,
Love me when I’m good, or when I’m oh so bad,
Love me when I’m pretty, or if my face is plain,
Love me when I’m feeling good, or when I’m feeling pain.
Love me always darlin’, in the rain or shining sun,
Love me always darlin’, after all is said and done,
Love me always darlin’, until all our life is through,
Love me always darlin’, for I’ll be lovin’ you!
A Better Tomorrow by Yvonne Warren
I never knew there would be a better tomorrow
But you’ve come into my life and taken away all my sorrow
My days of sadness are a thing of the past
Because I have found true love at last
My days of emptiness are gone for good
Because you fill a void in my heart that you should
You’ve opened a window
You’ve shown me the light
And my love for you will continue to burn bright.
Your Eyes by Unknown Author
I love your eyes, those twinkling eyes,
They speak of a thousand things.
It glows and I drown in its intensity,
I would love to stay there forever.
It evokes myriad memories,
And leaves an imprint on me.
I consider myself lucky enough,
To have experienced its warmth.
When cupid’s arrow strikes,
The world seems apparelled in celestial light,
Like the glory and freshness of your eyes.
Just like the morning dew,
Exotic and beautiful.
Every time I look into your eyes,
I’m lost in innumerable memories,
Thus forgetting the world behind me.
I wouldn’t expect anything much,
Than just being the Apple of your eye!