Love Quotes

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

Alfred Stuart, Jr.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Willa Sibert Cathe

To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Hermann Hesse

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isodore Duncan

There is only one terminal dignity - - Love.

Helen Hayes

Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.

Swedish Prove

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.

Erich Fromm

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If a man who cannot count finds a four - Leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

Life Is A Challenge - Meet It Life Is A Song - Sing It Life Is A Dream - Realize It Life Is A Game - Play It Life Is Love - Enjoy It.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

Nelson Boswell

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Nancy Mitford

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Jason Hurst

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

Adam Smith