Love Quotes

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question.

Edith Ann

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrothe

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Walter Benjamin

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

- - Aristotle

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

W. H. Murray

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander, The Double Deceive

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.

Chekov of Tolstoy

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

Alfred Stuart, Jr.

Where there is love, there is pain.

Danish prove

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003