If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
– William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.
– N. P. Willis
If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke.
– Hugh Elliott
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
– A. Edward Newton
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
– Francis Quarles
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
– Ernest Hemingway
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
– La Rochefoucauld
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
– Unknown
If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.
– Sorin Cerin
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
– Margaret Cho
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
– Mother Theresa
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
– Charlotte Bronte
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
– Kahlil Gibran
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
– Author Unknown
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
– Ann Landers
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
– Maya Angelou
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours.
– Proverb
If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.
– Sarah McLachlan
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
– Bruce Lee
If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
– Anonymous
