Love Quotes

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

June Masters Bache

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Og Mandino

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

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann von Goethe

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

Paulo Coelho, Brida

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.

Victor Hugo

Love truth but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Thomas Merton

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Theresa

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Elbert Hubbard

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell, 1984

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Norman Lindsay

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

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

Will Moss

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying...... It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Mother Theresa

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

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

Bell Hooks

Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Annie Sullivan

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Rupert Brooke

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucald

I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them.

Lauren Edwards

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you.

Grace Fallow Norton

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

Christopher Darlington Morley

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question.

Edith Ann