Love Quotes
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.John Donne
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....Ian Shoales
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.W. H. Auden
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.Clive Staples Lewis
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.J. M. Barrie
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.Julia A. Fletcher Carney
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.La Rochefoucauld
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying...... It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.Mother Theresa
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.Delmore Schwartz
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.Kahlil Gibran
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.Johann von Goethe
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.Ricthe
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.Dorothy Parke
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Love and a cough cannot be hid.George Herbert
Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars.Louis Untermeye
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.John Randolph
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.Martin Luther King, Jr.
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.William Butler Yeats
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.Denis Waitley
If there? s one thing I know it? s God does love a good joke.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05 - 01 - 04
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.Johnson
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.Mary Manin Morrissey
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.Douglas Adams
Love is space and time measured by the heart.Marcel Proust
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.John Donne
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.Kahlil Gibran
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005