Love Quotes

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

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Herman Cain

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa

There is only one terminal dignity - - Love.

Helen Hayes

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love truth, but pardon error.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

Love builds highways out of dead ends.

Louis Gittne

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fulle

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

George Santayana

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

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

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

English Prove

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He that loves the law will get his fill of it.

Scottish Prove

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land

Love is so much better when you are not married.

Maria Callas

The absence of love is the most abject pain.

Herr Lipp

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

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

William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Isha McKenzie - Mavinga

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Dave Thomas