Love Quotes

Father jerome cummings - love is shown in your deeds, not in your words....
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
Euripides, Medea, 431 B. C.
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
Hartley Coleridge
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth
Robert louis stephenson - so long as we love we serve so long as we are...
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
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing".
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
Gordon William Allport
If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours.
Prove
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
Joyce Strange
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Thomas Edward Bodett
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Francis
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
John Randolph
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.
Percy B. Shelley
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
J. Krishnamurti
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Swedish Prove
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The world loves to be deceived.
Franck Sebastian
Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
August Strindberg
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman... on Love & Relationships
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Sydney Harris
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)
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening, "Life in Hell".
I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying...... It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Theresa
Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.
King Soloman