Favorite Quotes on Love

Happy Valentine's Day!

I love a good quote. Here are a few of my favorite quotes on love. I thought you might enjoy some food for thought to go with all that chocolate and candy you just might eat today!

Almost every emotional problem can be summed up in one particular bit of behavior: it is a person walking around screaming “Love me! Love me!” He goes through a million different manipulations to get somebody to love him. On the other hand, healthy people are those who walk around looking for someone to love. And if you see changes in the people who are screaming “Love me,” it’s when they realize that if they give up this screaming and go to the other business of loving another human, they can get the love they’ve been screaming for all their lives.
- Thomas P. Malone

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Victor Hugo

See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.
- 1 Peter 1:22

Love of one’s neighbor is the only door out of the prison of self.
- G.K. Chesterton

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

A friend loveth at all times and a brother is born for adversity.
- Proverbs 17:17

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup, but drink not from one cup…
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
- Kahlil Gibran

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which should be everything.
- Katherine Hepburn

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

We don’t love qualities, we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
- Jaques Maritain

If you would be loved, love and be loveable.
- Benjamin Franklin 

Children gauge the love and admiration of adults by asking "Do your eyes light up when I enter the room the room?"
- Toni Morrison

What are some of your favorite quotes on love???