Love Quotes

True love is not rare at the age of a teen, but recognizing it as true love is.

Brad Bell

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

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

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Kahlil Gibran

Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

La Rochefoucauld

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

Michael Dorris

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid

Just because you love someone doesn? t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arnay

Lat., Now I know what love is.

Virgil

Love is not blind - It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.

French Prove

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Vincent McNa

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Buck

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

Ted Rall

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

The love of democracy is that of equality.

Charles de Montesquieu

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.

Victor Hugo

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartie

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.

Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".