i love you quotes Explained

We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. -- Tom Robbins

Some girls decide to follow men, and a few women choose to follow their dreams. If you are wondering which way to proceed, remember that your career won't ever awaken and tell you it doesn't love you anymore. -- Lady Gaga

Love is a fire. But if it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford

The difference between love and sex is that sex relieves tension and love causes it. -- Woody Allen

You deserve love, and you are going to get it. -- Amy Poehler

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I believed that no one but myself... -- C.S. Lewis

Give in to love, or live in fear. -- Jonathan Larson, Rent

If you like two people at the exact same time, select the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you would not have dropped for the second. -- Johnny Depp

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from wherever. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in such a manner because I don't know any other way of loving but this, where there is no I or you, so intimate your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. -- Pablo Neruda

Being deeply loved by someone provides you strength, while loving someone deeply provides you courage. -- Lao Tzu

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another man is essential to your own.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are actually my friends. I don't have any notion of loving people by halves, it's not my character. -- Jane Austen

To love at all is to be vulnerable. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even a monster. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it is going to change. It won't be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be exposed. -- C.S. Lewis

Love can't save you from your fate. -- Jim Morrison

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. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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

If music be the food of love, play with. -- William Shakespeare

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it evaporate. -- John Lennon

Women are meant to be loved, not to be known. -- Oscar Wilde
It is never jealous. Love isn't boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and isn't resentful. It's always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.

Promise me you will always remember: You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. -- A.A. Milne

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. -- Oscar Wilde
And it'll take over your mind. What you believe is love, is really not. You need to lift your mind. -- Eve

You don't love someone because of their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can listen to. -- Oscar Wilde

Love is something sent from heaven to stress the hell out of you. -- Dolly Parton

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

I'm here. I adore you. I really don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There is nothing you can ever do to reduce my love. I will guard you until you perish, and after your departure I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and I am braver than solitude and nothing could possibly exhaust me. -- Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

It is far better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you aren't. -- André Gide

What's love? I have met in the streets a very bad young man who was in love. -- Victor Hugo

Sorrow is the way we learn to appreciate. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it is getting larger. The larger it gets, the longer love it holds.

You pierce my soul. -- Jane Austen

It takes courage to enjoy, but pain through love is the purifying flame which those who love kindly understand. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain they close themselves up like clams at a shell and, giving nothing out, receive nothing and so shrink until existence is a mere living death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing bits of these. So anybody who is in love becomes sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, you haven't seen in a long time. -- Haruki Murakami

Men are a luxury. Not a requirement. -- Cher

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. -- François de La Rochefoucauld

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

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. -- Madonna
Allow me to count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it's those things I would believe in, even if the entire world indulged in wild suspicions that she was not all she ought to be. I love her and it's the start of everything. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (on his wife, Zelda)

Piglet:'How can you spell'love'?' Winnie the Pooh:'You don't spell it...you believe it.' -- A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

Love may make even nice people do awful things. -- Jude Deveraux

Do not settle for a connection that won't let you be yourself. -- Oprah

Have enough guts to trust love one longer and consistently one longer. -- Maya Angelou

However lovesick a lady is; she should not take the first pill that comes along. -- Joyce Brothers

My wish is that you may be loved to the verge of insanity. : Selected Writings)

A purpose of human life, regardless of who's controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. -- Kurt Vonnegut
-- Elinor Glyn

You'll get over it...' It's the clichés that cause the problem. To get rid of someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because'it' is the person you loved. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the form of you and nobody else can fit it. Why would I want them to? -- Jeanette Winterson

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will appreciate you . Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. -- Rita Mae Brown

The highest purpose of love is that it makes the loved one a special and pleasing being. -- Tom Robbins

To be completely seen by someone, then, and be adored anyway -- this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. -- Elizabeth Gilbert

That is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you're loved, there's no need whatsoever to comprehend what's happening, because everything happens within you. -- Paulo Coelho
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me also. -- Pablo Neruda

There is just one page left to write on. I shall fill it with words of just one syllable. I adore. I have loved. -- Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

You merely learn to love again once you fall in love again. -- Adele

The greater your ability to feel love, the greater your ability to feel the pain. -- Jennifer Aniston

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. -- Thomas Carlyle

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. -- Brendan Francis

I Love You Quotes

Do not seek the because--in love there's not any because, no motive, no explanation, no solutions. -- Anais Nin

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

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

Conquer your love got the best of me, and baby you are making a fool of me. You check over here got me sprung and I don't care who sees, cause baby you got me so crazy. -- Beyoncé, Crazy in Love

When you know that you want to spend the remainder of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. -- Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

The very best and most gorgeous things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -- Helen Keller
It doesn't bind. -- Maya Angelou

I believe there are a few things in life you can't refuse or refuse, and [love] is one of them. -- Cate Blanchett
-- Audrey Hepburn

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. -- Zora Neale Hurston

When the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -- Robert Frost

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be pleased, even if you're not a part of their happiness. -- Julia Roberts
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You never lose by loving. -- Barbara de Angelis

For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. -- Carl Sagan

Love is inconsistent and it's frustrating and it is tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there is no way to feel like I am an expert at it, it is worth writing songs about--over anything else I've ever experienced in my life. -- Taylor Swift

If you want to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

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

You can not put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories. -- Melanie Clark

It's useless to hold a individual to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for the office. -- Shirley MacLaine

If you remember me, then I do not care if everybody else forgets.
-- Paul Valery

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. -- Peter Ustinov

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. -- Blaise Pascal

Love is affected. 1 side always enjoys more. -- Catherine Deneuve

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn how to let gothings go wrong so you enjoy them when they are right, you think lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but your self, and sometimes good things fall apart better things could fall together. -- Marilyn Monroe

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is similar to the blood of religious evolution.

Happiness is not getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. -- Garth Brooks

To love and be loved is to feel sunlight from both sides. -- David Viscott

Accustom yourself continually to create many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. -- Saint Teresa of Avila

Love is a reciprocal self-giving which ends in self-recovery. -- Fulton J. Sheen

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love the neighbor. -- Eric Hoffer

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. -- Billie Holiday

Soul partner: two little words, one big concept. A belief that someone, somewhere, is holding the key to your heart. -- Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -- Iris Murdoch

Happiness is your china shop; adore is your bull. -- H.L. Mencken

If you love someone, let them go, for when they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. -- Khalil Gibran