my favorite list of i love you quotes

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

Some girls choose to follow men, and a few women choose to follow their own dreams. If you're wondering how to go, do not forget that your career will never awaken and tell you it does not love you anymore. -- Lady Gaga

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

The distinction between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes itto be -- Woody Allen

You deserve love, and you'll get it. -- Amy Poehler

Friendship is born at the 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 precisely the exact same time, select the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you would not have fallen to 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 way because I don't know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes shut. -- Pablo Neruda

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

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another man is essential to your own. -- Robert A. Heinlein

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

To love at all is to be vulnerable. If you wish to be certain of keeping it intact you must give it to nobody, not even a monster. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. -- C.S. Lewis

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

When I despair, I remember that all through history the means of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a moment, they can seem invincible, but in the endthey always fall. Consider italways. -- Mahatma Gandhi

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the spirit. -- 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 disappear. -- John Lennon

Women are supposed to be loved, not to be known. -- Oscar Wilde

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It's never rude or selfish. It doesn't take offense and isn't resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It's always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. -- Corinthians :- (The New Jerusalem Bible)

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
Plus it will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind. -- Eve

You do not love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. -- Oscar Wilde

Love is something shipped from heaven to worry the hell out of you. -- Dolly Parton

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

I am here. I adore you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all day long, I will stay with you. There is nothing you can ever do to reduce my love. I will guard you until you die, and after your death I'll still protect you. I'm more powerful than melancholy and I'm braver than solitude and nothing could possibly exhaust me.

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

What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who had been in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul. -- Victor Hugo

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting bigger. The bigger it gets, the longer love it retains. -- Rita Mae Brown

You pierce my soul. -- Jane Austen

It takes courage to enjoy, but pain during love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people that are so much afraid of pain they shut themselves up like clams at a casing and, giving nothing out, get nothing and therefore shrink until existence is a mere living death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Men really are a luxury. Not a necessity. -- 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 assert that it is the suffering of being not able to love. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-- Madonna
Allow me to count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild feelings that she was not all she ought to be. I really like her and it's the start of everything.

Piglet:'How can you spell'love'?' Winnie the Pooh:'You do not describe it...you feel it.'

Love can make even pleasant people do dreadful things. -- Jude Deveraux

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

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. -- Maya Angelou

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

My desire is that you might be loved to the point of madness.

A weblink purpose of human existence, regardless of who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. -- Kurt Vonnegut

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. -- Elinor Glyn

You're going to get over it...' It is the clichés that cause the problem. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You do not 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 need them to? -- Jeanette Winterson

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Many people will love you . Many will love you for what you can do to them, and some will not like you at all.

The maximum function of love is that it makes the loved one a special and irreplaceable being. -- Tom Robbins

To be completely seen by someone, then, and be adored anyhow -- this really is a human offering that could border on awesome. -- Elizabeth Gilbert

This is what we call love. When you're loved, you are able to do anything in creation. When you are loved, there is no need at all to understand what is happening, because everything happens within you. -- Paulo Coelho

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me also. -- Pablo Neruda

There is only 1 page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved.

You only learn to love again when you fall in love again. -- Adele

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

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

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

Do not seek the due --in love there's not any because, no reason, no excuse, no solutions. -- Anais Nin

You know when you are in love when you can not 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 got me sprung and I do not care who sees, cause baby you got me so crazy. -- Beyoncé, Crazy in Love

When you know that you need to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to begin as soon as possible.

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

Love liberates. It doesn't bind. -- Maya Angelou

I think there are a few things in life that you can not refuse or refuse, and [love] is one of them. -- Cate Blanchett

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. -- Audrey Hepburn

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding spot.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a superb 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.
-- Robert Frost

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

Love doesn't consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in precisely the exact same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You never lose by loving. -- Barbara de Angelis

-- Carl Sagan

Love is unpredictable and it is frustrating and it's tragic and it is beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel as though I'm an expert in it, it's well worth writing songs about--more than anything else I have ever experienced in my life. -- Taylor Swift

If you want to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

You can't 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 is in love, drunk, or running for the office. -- Shirley MacLaine

If you recall me, then I don't 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 look to ourselves rather distinct from what we were before. -- Blaise Pascal

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

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn how to let go, things go wrong so that you enjoy them when they are right, you believe lies so you finally learn how to trust no one but yourself, and at times fantastic things fall apart so better things could fall together. -- Marilyn Monroe

Love is a sacred book of energy; it is like the blood of religious development. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Happiness isn't getting what you need, 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 that finishes in self-recovery. -- Fulton J. Sheen

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. -- Eric Hoffer

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

Soul partner: two little words, one large idea. A belief that somebody, 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 apart from oneself is real. -- Iris Murdoch

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

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