Love Quotes

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Barbara Johnson, The Joy Journal

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Boris Pasternak

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.

Aimee Martin

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

Sigmund Freud

The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles De Gaulle

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Edna Buchanan

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fulle

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - That is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.

Leonard Bernstein

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Russell Bake

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 1335 Bible

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.

Basil W. Maturin

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

William Penn

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

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

When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.

Euripides, Medea, 431 B. C.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore De Balzac

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789

God is Love - - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.

Samuel Butle

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson