Love Quotes

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.

Proverbs 7: 17 - 18

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.

Hakim Jami

What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

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

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon Byron

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

Jonathan Swift

There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

Mother Teresa

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

Jewish Prove

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Oliver Herford

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

Abraham Lincoln

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Victor Hugo

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Jennifer Aniston

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabo

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.

Ben Franklin

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tze

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.

William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Buddha

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

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

Pearl Buck

Love tells us many things that are not so.

Ukranian Prove

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Thomas a Kempis

Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.

Marc Maihueird

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

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.