Love Quotes

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

Sigmund Freud

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Roger Rosenblatt

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Vincent McNa

Nature loves a burst of energy.

Boe Lightman

Fall not in love, therefore it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them.

Lauren Edwards

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

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjld

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Sydney Harris

Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

David B. Haight

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

The wise man will love all others will desire.

Afranius

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

Latin Prove

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Harriet Van Horne

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Theodor Reik

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

Ted Rall

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fulle

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

Rev. Theodore Hegburgh

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

David McCullough

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through.

Simone Weil

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

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced.

Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.

Unknown

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson