Love Quotes

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Rufus Choate

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

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

Sir Thomas More

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

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides, Orestes (408 BC)

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Christopher S. Drew

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

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".

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise Hay

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.

Katharine Graham

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

Love builds highways out of dead ends.

Louis Gittne

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

We must love one another or die.

W. H. Auden, "September 1, 1939".

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

Hilary Duff

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.

Anonymous

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - - The love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

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

Nora Roberts

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

Latin Prove

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

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - - No wonder, then, that I return the love.

Soren Kierkegaard

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Gordon William Allport

Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

Author Unknown

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman