Love Quotes

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Madame Swetchine

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.

Kahlil Gibran

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffe

The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

Woodrow Wilson

There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003

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

Blaise Pascal

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

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him.

E. M. Forste

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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

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.

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Lord Bertrand Russell

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNa

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell, 1984

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

William Penn

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.

Angel Blessing

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

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four - Leaf clovers.

Unknown

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucious

Love is the reason for it all.

Dorothy Fields

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrothe

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

Nature loves a burst of energy.

Boe Lightman

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.

Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

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

The absence of love is the most abject pain.

Herr Lipp

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno