Love Quotes

Bette davis, the lonely life, 1962 - to fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over...
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love.
L. O. Baird
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
C. S. Lewis
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Dorothy parke - the affair between margot asquith and margot...
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
Virgil
It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
La Rochefoucauld
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Buddha
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.
Bernard Iddings Bell
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.
Laurie E. Colwin
I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.
Christopher S. Drew
Measure your life in love.
Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland
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
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Nick Richardson
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
Robert Anthony
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
James Baldwin
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Charles Caleb Colton
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding
Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid
Love is not blind - - It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Julian Weber Gordon
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookne
A heart that loves is always young.
Greek Prove
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty - Five - Year - Old men more.
Collen McCullough
Life 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
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.
Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
Real Live Preache
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
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