Love Quotes

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

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

Jane Austen, Emma

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Pierre Corneille

Where you find true friendship, You find true love.

Unknown

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Hermann Hesse

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

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

Mother Teresa

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Kahlil Gibran

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - - Not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Theodor Reik

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

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

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

Groucho Marx

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Stephen

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tze

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

Libbie Fudim

Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Henry Louis Mencken

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil