Love Quotes

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

La Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylo

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Buddha

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Jelaluddin Rumi

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Jeseph Joubert

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

J. M. Barrie

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Harold Loukes

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Madame Swetchine

Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.

Clive Staples Lewis

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit.

Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - But not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Nathan C. Schaeffe

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 15 - 04

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Lord Thomas Dewa

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrothe

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Dave Thomas

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butle

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Ovid