Love Quotes

Kahlil gibran - life without love is like a tree without blossoms...
Henri frdric amiel - doubt of the reality of love ends by making us...
No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot, internet
The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51
Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
Will Durant
John randolph - the principle of liberty and equality, if coupled...
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
Virgil, Eclogues
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.
Lao Tzu
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Father Jerome Cummings
Purity, patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.
Swami Vivekananda
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
La Rochefoucauld
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
Dr. Karl Menninge
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
George Santayana
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
Australian Aboriginal Prove
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Joseph Addison
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Unknown
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - And the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo
God loves the world through us.
Mother Theresa
The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.
Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
Jane Austen, Emma
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Prove
Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.
Goldie Nash
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.
Gray Davis
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
Marcel Ayme
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
Adel Bestavros
Jealousy - That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Ricthe
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
Confucius
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
John Christian Bovee
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
C. S. Lewis, First things First
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77