Love Quotes

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Buddha

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever - wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Fawn M. Brodie

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby

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

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalie

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence George Durrell

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

La Rochefoucauld

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beeche

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.

William Hazlitt

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Harriet Van Horne

No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

Nature loves a burst of energy.

Boe Lightman

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

Ovid

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget - Me - Nots of the angels.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffe

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Unknown

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

To love another person is to help them love God.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.

N. P. Willis

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes