Love Quotes

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

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

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Addison Mizne

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

Do what you love and the business will follow.

Michel Fortin

Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Clive Staples Lewis

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.

Mahatma Gandhi

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Brooks Atkinson

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

Sigmund Freud

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

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

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

Unknown

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

James Kelly

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Henri Frdric Amiel

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Tom Lehre

He drew a circle that shut me out - - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.

Edwin Markham

Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.

Clive Staples Lewis

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

Anonymous

Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches.

Colley Cibbe

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Isha McKenzie - Mavinga

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus

The very essence of love is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son - In - Law.

Jewish Prove

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

No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.