Love Quotes

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Madame Swetchine

Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Leo Buscaglia

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

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

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

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

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

The course of true love was never easy.

William Shakespeare

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Mother Theresa

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.

Donna Hedges

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Author Unknown

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

Zsa Zsa Gabo

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara DeAngelis

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.

Israel Zangwill

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

Jerome K. Jerome

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

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

La Rochefoucauld

Love rules without rules.

Italian Prove

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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