Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
Valentines Day quotes
Valentines Day
272 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet, Novelist
"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."
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"Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love."
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
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"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you."
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"If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?"
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
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"I love you like a fat kid loves cake!"
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"The object of love is to serve, not to win"
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"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
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"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
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"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
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"so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."
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"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
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"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
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"Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not."
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"They do not love that do not show their love."
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"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."
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"We loved with a love that was more than love."
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"When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now."
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"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."
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