Love Quotes

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Otavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Han Suyin

One is very crazy when in love.

Sigmund Freud

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters".

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love.

Marysarah Quinn

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tze

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

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Arapaho Prove

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Hamilton Wright Mabi

To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Strange

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Sir Thomas More

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Kahlil Gibran

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

French Prove

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arnay

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Theresa

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

Home

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Harold Loukes

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.

French Prove

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - - Never.

Albert Camus