Love Quotes

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

"Swedish Proverb".

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Brendan Francis Behan

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

August Strindberg

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Otavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

God is Love - - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.

Samuel Butle

What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

C. C. Colton

We like someone because. We love someone although.

Henri De Montherlant

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

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

Rev. Theodore Hegburgh

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

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

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

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

Buddha

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

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Theresa

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Sir Arthur Helps

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Abraham Lincoln

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore