Love Quotes

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Rufus Choate

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde

It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.

Andy & Larry Wachowski, Merovingian - The Matrix Revolutions

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Rabindranath Tagore, Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Corita Kent

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Roger Rosenblatt

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Dave Thomas

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Kelle

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer, The Odyssey

No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.

Prophet Mohammed

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Saint Francis de Sales

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Alice Hoffman