Love Quotes

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

La Rochefoucauld

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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

Thomas Mann

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parke

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Wally Lam

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.

In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplie

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac

Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.

John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Nancy Mitford

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

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - Gunpowder and romantic love.

Andre Maurois

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8

Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

Dr. Karl A. Menninge

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs... and jerk the heck out of you.

Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.

Bernard Grasset

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Jodie Foste

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Unknown

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

George Santayana

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

John Fellows Akers

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi