Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
by James A. Baldwin

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

Related topics: Romantic Love Cynical Marriage

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.

Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie

Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie