Love Quotes

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.

Erich Fromm

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

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

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

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall

If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.

Unknown

If there? s one thing I know it? s God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05 - 01 - 04

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.

Clive Staples Lewis

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920

Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him.

E. M. Forste

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

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

A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love.

Marysarah Quinn

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis

There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I love you, what business is it of yours.

Johann von Goethe

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Unknown

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Mother Theresa

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

To be loved, be lovable.

Ovid, Ars Amatoria

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Alexandre Dumas