Love Quotes

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

Assyrian Prove

It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty - Five - Year - Old men more.

Collen McCullough

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

La Rochefoucauld

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Sonia Taitz

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - This is an old rule.

The Dhammapada

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

Marlene Dietrich

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann von Goethe

Love is merely madness.

Shakespeare

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

Katharn Hepburn

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucious

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

Love came down at Christmas Love all lovely, love divine Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

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

Jimi Hendrix

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Brooks Atkinson

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles

May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

Give all to love obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Margaret of Valois

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

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucald

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

Groucho Marx

Love will find a lay.

Robert Byrne