Love Quotes and Poems – My Favorites to Share

These are some of my favorite love quotes and poems:

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) ~

No man is truly married
until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
~ by Unknown ~

On historic occasions
Honest relations
Are critical factors
For ingenious actors
The bond of you and me
Requires integrity
Until we spiritualize
You will always find the truth in my eyes.
~ Matthew Jacobs ~

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist,
Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
~ by Anonymous ~
Life without love is like a tree
Without blossom and fruit.
~ by Khalil Gibran ~

She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
~ by Byron ~

One word frees us
Of all the weight and pain in life,
That word is Love
~ by Socrates ~

Please allow me a chance for a moment's reflection, a time to turn my attention in an inward direction as I pause to acknowledge a list of shortcomings I note there.

Nowhere was Ihonest enough in the past.

In fact I've been lying since preschool and sometimes it feels second nature to let slip a whopper, but hurting undeserving loved ones isn't worth the imaginary damage control I perceive to achieve.

But at least I'm no longer lashing out.

And isn't it ironic how I ended up with this woman who uses her rages restraintless, reversing a similar trend I ended up enacting with my previous girlfriend.

I'd be the one aggressively addressing her as she shied away from my verbal violence choosing to use her journal to record the current feelings and thoughts my outburst had hurt her.

Now I'm the one with the pen putting down my reality.

Please let her see that when she reacts with so much fire, it's surely akin to my being a liar.
~ Matthew Jacobs ~

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
~ by Alice Walker ~

To love a person is to learn the song
That is in their heart,
And to sing it to them
When they have forgotten.
~ Anonymous ~

The most precious possession that ever comes
To a man in this world
Is a woman's heart.
~ by Josiah G. Holland ~

And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.
~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

Love is a wonderful thing.
You never have to take it away
From one person to give it to another.
There's always more than enough to go around.
~ by Pamela de Roy ~

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate
Before it has cooled off.
It takes you by surprise at first,
But keeps you warm for a long time.
~ Anonymous ~

My love for you is a journey;
Starting at forever,
And ending at never.
~ Anonymous ~

Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.
~ Anonymous ~

The only things in life you regret,
Are the risks that you didn't take.
~ Anonymous ~

I am love. My heart in me is love.
My love is I. I'm love inside.
Love come home. My body own.
Love flow out every pore.
Adorn our soul still more.
Pure heart grow your sprout.
Root out self doubt.
Love restore more ground surrounding me with security.
Love steer my course. Love course through me perpetually.
Love form my every thought. Love let love be me and love me.
~ Matthew Jacobs ~

ou don't love a woman because she's beautiful,
She is beautiful because you love her.
~ Anonymous ~

To get the full value of joy
You must have someone to divide it with.
~ by Mark Twain ~

Love doesn't sit there like a stone.
It has to be made like bread;
Remade all the time,
...Made new.
~ by Le Guin ~

Love is that condition in which
The happiness of another person
Is essential to your own.
~ by Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land ~

Love doesn't make the world go round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ by Elizabeth Browning ~

The greatest weakness of most humans
Is their hesitancy to tell others,
How much they love them
While they're alive.
~ by O.A. Battista ~

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
~ by Maulana Jalalu'ddin Rumi ~

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within the reach of every hand.
~ by Mother Teresa ~

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love.
~ by W. Somerset Maugham ~

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.
~ by J. Isham ~

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ by Lao Tzu ~

Love does not die easily.
It is a living thing.
It thrives in the face
of all life's hazards,
save one--neglect.
~ by James Bryden ~

Some pray to marry the man they love,
my prayer will somewhat vary:
I humbly pray to Heaven above
that I love the man I marry.
~ by Rose Stokes ~

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
~ by Henry Ward Beecher ~

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
~ by 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ~

All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~

Smile at each other, smile at your wife,
smile at your husband, smile at your children,
smile at each other--it doesn't matter who it is--
and that will help you to grow up in greater love
for each other.
~ by Mother Theresa ~

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
~ by Sir Hugh Walpole ~

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

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.
~ Unknown ~

One, oh only when humans union do views sweeten.
Needing pleases
One feels one heals. Each one is only one.
Only all are really one.
Each cell contains the whole.
All those one knows close loops of us.
Thus love.
~ Matthew Jacobs ~

My Favorite Love Quotes and Love Poems