Love Quotes

Dorothy parke - oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of...
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
Saint Augustine
Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fulle
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
Barbara deangelis - love is a choice you make from moment to moment....
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from anothe.
H. L. Mencken
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
Jessamyn West
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Theresa
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.
Judith Viorst
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
Marcel Proust
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.
Gloria Steinem
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Robert Frost
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".
A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.
Gray Davis
Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.
Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell, 1984
God made man because He loves stories.
Elie Wiesel
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
Hadewijch of Antwerp
The best love affairs are those we never had.
Norman Lindsay
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar Wilde
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T, The Ice Opinion
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
He who is not impatient is not in love.
Italian Prove
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.
Christian Longe
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - This is an old rule.
The Dhammapada
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
Love is the life of humanity.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1