Ever wondered what to write on a Valentines Day card? Look no further because I have gathered together some of the most inspirational love quotes.
“Even logical positivists are capable of love”
~ A.J. Ayer
“Eternity is love with the production of time”
~ William Blake
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care,
but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair”
~ William Blake
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb"
~ Robert Browning
“The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love”
~ Robert Burton
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge”
~ Thomas Carlyle
“Love is wiser than ambition”
~ Barry Cornwall
“To love abundantly is to live abundantly,
and to love forever is to live forever”
~ Henry Drummond
"Life has taught us that love
does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction"
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Love knows no mean or measure”
~ Phineas Fletcher
“Love’s sooner felt than seen”
~ Phineas Fletcher
“Love is a game that two can play and both win”
~Eva Gabor
“Love is a circle that doth restless move,
in the same sweet eternity of love”
~ Robert Herrick
“If I know what love is, it is because of you"
~ Herman Hesse
“Love and a red rose can’t be hid”
~ Thomas Holcroft
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey”
~ Victor Hugo
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"
~ Sam Keen
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths
of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives”
~ C. S. Lewis
“In true love the smallest distance is too great,
and the greatest distance can be bridged"
~ Hans Nouwens
“Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love.
I'd stepped in it a few times”
~ Rita Rudner
“The course of true love never did run smooth”
~ William Shakespeare
“O! How this spring of love resembleth
the uncertain glory of an April day.
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun.
And by a cloud takes all away”
~ William Shakespeare
“And all for love and nothing for reward”
~ Edmund Spencer
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love”
~ Stendhal
“Love is love forevermore”
~ Tennyson
"Love is friendship set on fire"
~ Jeremy Taylor
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage”
~ Lao Tzu
“I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you"
~ Unknown
“His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love”
~ William Wordsworth
References:
http://www.brainyquote.com
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. (1981)
Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2004)
A Dictionary of Quotations
