Quotes on Love, Life, and Friendship

1. "True love can blind you but at the same time if you let it, it can also open your eyes."
-Unknown

2. "Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear. If you do not feel the jolt in your soul every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you're not really in love at all."
-C.J. Franks

3. "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

4. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
-Aristotle

5. "I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
-Mother Teresa

6. "If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
-Benjamin Franklin

7. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith

8. "True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."
-Alicia Barnhart

9. "Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop."
-Anonymous

10. "Where there is love there is life."
-Gandhi

11. "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
-Victor Hugo

12. "Kisses kept are wasted;
Love is to be tasted.
There are some you love, I know;
Be not loath to tell them so.
Lips go dry and eyes grow wet
Waiting to be warmly met,
Keep them not in waiting yet;
Kisses kept are wasted."
-Edmund Vance Cooke

13. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

14. "Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."
-Alexander Pope

15. "Love is a spirit of all compact of fire."
-William Shakespeare

16. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
-William Shakespeare

17. "Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
-William Shakespeare

18. "The course of true love never did run smooth."
-William Shakespeare

19. "They do not love that do not show their love."
-William Shakespeare

20. "Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."
-Voltaire

21. "Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here."
-Marianne Williamson

22. "To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- that can make life a garden."
-Goethe

23. "Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."
-Unknown

24. "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
-Thomas Jefferson

25. "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
-Albert Schweitzer

26. "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
-Unknown

27. "A friend is a gift you give yourself."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

28. "Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly."
-Mark Twain

29. "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
-Arthur Miller

30. "Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl -- no superior alternative has yet been found."
-Sir Winston Churchill

31. "I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."
-Roy Croft

32. "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
-Helen Keller

33. "My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
-Aristotle

34. "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
-Aristotle

35. "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. "Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."
-Euripides

39. "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
-François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

40. "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
-François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

41. "Hold a true friend with both your hands."
-Nigerian Proverb

42. "To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still."
-William Shakespeare

43. "Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love."
-William Shakespeare

44. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right."
-Mark Twain

45. "Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."
-Voltaire

46. "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
-Oscar Wilde

47. "We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
-Sir Winston Churchill

48. "Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."
-Helen Keller

49. "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
-Abraham Lincoln

50. "Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
-Eleanor Roosevelt