20 Great quotes on love

One of the great emotions, love is a complexity we all deal with on a certain level. While known to affect the rational thought process at times, love is generally associated with some form of compassion

For some, Valentine’s Day can be a time of redemption, especially if your efforts during the holiday season were considered to be sub-par. Consider the following quotes about love as you search for that redemption.

1 - “It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.” - Khalil Gibran

2 - “A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” - Henry David Thoreau

3 - “Have a heart that never harden, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” - Charles Dickens

4 - “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” - Goethe

5 - “Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth.” - Herman Melville

6 - “Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” - Albert Einstein

7 - “We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.” - Mother Teresa

8 - “They do not love that do not show their love.” - William Shakespeare

9 - “Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear prid. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.” - Erma Bombeck

10 - “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 suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be....I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

11 - “Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.” - Aristotle

12 - “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” - Lao Tzu

13 - “The only true gift is a portion of yourself.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

14 - “Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.” - Oscar Wilde

15 - “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” - Helen Keller

16 - “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

17 - “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

18 - “Love never claims, it ever gives.” - Mohandas Ghandi

19 - “Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goues of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.” - Ernest Hemingway

20 - “We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, and lay like fish under the net of our kisses.” - Pablo Neruda