Love Quotes

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Amy Vanderbilt

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.

Sydney Harris

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

Reinhold Niebuh

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

C. S. Lewis

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

1 John 49 NIV Bible

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butle

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartie

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.

Roland Stahle

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Mark Twain

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 11 - 04

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

William Butler Yeats

There is only one terminal dignity - - Love.

Helen Hayes

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius