Love Quotes

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

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

Sigmund Freud

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Charles Augustin Sainte - Beauve

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

Laura Ingalls Wilde

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

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

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Mao Zedong

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

Art Costa

Love builds bridges where there are none.

R. H. Delaney

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

War is like love it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

God, I dont 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 Preache

The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Johann von Goethe

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore De Balzac

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Father Jerome Cummings

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Beal

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

M. Hirschfield

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I both love and do not love and am mad and not mad.

Anacreon

Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Madame Swetchine

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8