Love Quotes

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Rilke

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walke

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adle

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

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Annie Sullivan

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

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

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Honore de Balzac

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Coming to America

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.

The Buddha

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Ethel Watts Mumford

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

H. L. Mencken

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

Love is friendship caught on fire.

Unknown

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Brian Aldiss

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Rev. Theodore Hegburgh

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Paul Eldridge

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

Afranius

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Quentin Crisp

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

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

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum