Love Quotes

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

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

Jimi Hendrix

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Kahlil Gibran

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

SMILE GOD LOVES YOU.

Unknown

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann von Goethe

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

La Rochefoucauld

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

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Unknown

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Gordon William Allport

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

Isha McKenzie - Mavinga

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Rupert Brooke

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides, Orestes (408 BC)

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Henri Frdric Amiel

The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

Love is so much better when you are not married.

Maria Callas

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

Publilius Syrus

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

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

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Ernest Dimnet

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Anouk Aimee

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.

Aimee Martin

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Jacques Maritain

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

Ovid

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

Walter Lippmann

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Dr. Karl Menninge