Proverbs & cultures

Love: words of care and connection

Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
Author UnknownTraditional attribution
Don’t tell me you love me; show me that you do.
Omage JossyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
Love is the only gold.
Alfred, Lord TennysonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Love doesn’t cause pain – people do.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Dr. Karl MenningerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Roy CroftAttributed in the original GADEL collection
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi HendrixAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert BrowningAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Just the thought of being with you tomorrow is enough to get me through today.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
Love can never grow old.
Leo BuscagliaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas MannAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
Anne Morrow LindberghAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita BrooknerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A bell is not a bell until you ring it; A song is not a song until you sing it.
Oscar Hammerstein IIAttributed in the original GADEL collection
There is no disguise, which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
La RochefoucauldAttributed in the original GADEL collection
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Agnes RepplierAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Love is not something you feel. It’s something you do.
David WilkersonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
Richard BraunstienAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Love thine enemies…it really pisses them off.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love.
Fyodor DoestoyevskyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold HerbertAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image.
Thomas MertonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Expect the people you love to be better.
AnonymousTraditional attribution
God’s grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
Henry W. BeecherAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.
O. A. BattistaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
I have no regrets. I will never regret loving someone because the feeling of love for five minutes is greater than an eternity of hurt.
Kurt LangnerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Grace is God’s love in action for those who don’t deserve it.
Robert SchullerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
Ivan PaninAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Love is a painkiller.
African proverbTraditional attribution
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
Swedish proverbTraditional attribution
True love means what’s mine is yours.
African proverbTraditional attribution
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Chinese proverbTraditional attribution
Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.
Congolese proverbTraditional attribution
You know who you love, but you can’t know who loves you.
Nigerian proverbTraditional attribution
Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you.
African proverbTraditional attribution
If there is cause to hate someone, the cause to love has just begun.
Wolof proverbTraditional attribution
Love can not grow without passion.
Greek proverbTraditional attribution
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
English proverbTraditional attribution
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
Moroccan proverbTraditional attribution
He who doesn’t feel jealousy is not in love.
African proverbTraditional attribution
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf.
Sudanese proverbTraditional attribution
If love is torn apart you cannot stitch the pieces together again.
Malagasy proverbTraditional attribution
It’s better to fall from a tree and a break your back than to fall in love and break your heart.
African proverbTraditional attribution
A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together.
African proverbTraditional attribution
Why take away something by force which you can obtain by love.
African proverbTraditional attribution
To be able to love other people you must be able to love yourself.
African proverbTraditional attribution
Love is like cough you can’t hold it back.
African proverbTraditional attribution
Whom we love best, to them we can say least.
English proverbTraditional attribution
to love without giving.
Richard BraunstienAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Original collection & source

Original title: Love Quotes, Love Sayings, Love Poems and Love Proverbs for Your Friends, Family and You

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Only short selections are republished here. The archived original may include longer passages and unverified attributions.

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