Love Quotes

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

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 think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through.

Simone Weil

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

Gordon William Allport

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Burns

There is only one terminal dignity - - Love.

Helen Hayes

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.

Buddha

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Robin Williams

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Miguel de Cervantes

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

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

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Saint Augustine

He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

The course of true love was never easy.

William Shakespeare

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment".

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap - On - A - Rope.

Bill Cosby

I love to go to Washington - - If only to be near my money.

Bob Hope

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

William Shakespeare