Love Quotes

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Joseph Addison

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

Vincent McNa

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

Robert Frost

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Victor Hugo

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.

Roland Stahle

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides, Orestes (408 BC)

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

La Rochefoucauld

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

C. C. Colton

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches.

Colley Cibbe

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Tom Lehre

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

Bell Hooks

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J. M. Barrie

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

Catullus

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.

Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.

Basil W. Maturin

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects