Love Quotes
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.Plato
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.Don Barthelme
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.Socrates
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.Dorothy Rothschild Parke
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.Ernest Hemingway
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.Jalal ud - Din Rumi
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.Johann von Goethe
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.William Shakespeare
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - These are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.Stella Benson
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.Sir Thomas More
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.Jelaluddin Rumi
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - And the stars through his soul.Victor Hugo
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.Sanaya Roman
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
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.Buddha
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
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.The Buddha
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.Harper Lee
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - But not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.Bette Davis
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
We can only learn to love by loving.Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.Francois Sagan
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.Home
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.Saint Francis of Assisi
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.La Rochefoucauld
A good front is half the battle in love or war.Kim Hubbard
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.La Rochefoucauld
Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.Dr. Karl Menninge
