Theme
Love
Affection, devotion, and the bonds between people.
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“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”
“A true friend is, as it were, a second self”
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity”
“Be worthy love, and love will come”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”
“Fan Ch'ih asked about benevolence. The Master said, 'It is to love all men.'”
“Grief is the price we pay for love”
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it”
“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer, because it was he, because it was I”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain”
“If you wish to be loved, love”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know”
“Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none”
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies”
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love”
“One dies twice, I see it plainly; to cease to love and be loved is an unbearable death; to cease to live is nothing”
“That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched”
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not”
“The only beautiful eyes are those that look at us tenderly”
“The soul is healed by being with children”
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him”
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity”
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends”
“They that love beyond the World, cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies”
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die”
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect”
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another”
“We loved with a love that was more than love”
“Well, nobody's perfect”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us”
“Where should one use perfume? Wherever one wants to be kissed”
“Work is love made visible”
“Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love. The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love”
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive”
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light”
“Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity”
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier”
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy”
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Don’t get caught out
Commonly shared about love — but misattributed
Popular love lines that get pinned on the wrong name. If you use one, credit it correctly.
“Those Who Love Deeply Never Grow Old”
ReallyArthur Wing Pinero · not Benjamin Franklin
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt”
ReallySusanna Clark & Richard Leigh · not Mark Twain
“Wherefore art thou, Romeo?”
ReallyWilliam Shakespeare
“True love is born from understanding”
ReallyUnknown · not Gautama Buddha
“Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy”
ReallyRobert Quillen · not Groucho Marx
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too”
ReallyMarc Chernoff · not Ernest Hemingway
“Hogamous, Higamous, Man is Polygamous, Higamous, Hogamous, Woman is Monagamous”
ReallyNo verified author · not Dorothy Parker
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do”
ReallyColeman Barks · not Rumi
“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood”
ReallyDouglas McGrath · not Charles Dickens
“I Would Rather Have Two Girls at 21 Each Than One At 42”
ReallyW. C. Fields · but not in these words
“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love”
ReallyRod McKuen · not John Lennon
“Love is a friendship set to music”
ReallyUnknown · not Joseph Campbell
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect, and greet each other”
ReallyRainer Maria Rilke · but not in these words
“Charity begins at home”
ReallySir Thomas Browne · not the Bible
“Me Tarzan, you Jane”
ReallyIvor Novello
“Why don't you come up and see me sometime?”
ReallyMae West · but not in these words
“Play it again, Sam”
ReallyJulius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein & Howard Koch
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place”
ReallyZora Neale Hurston · but not in these words