Love Quotes

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Buck

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann von Goethe

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Rabindranath Tagore, Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.

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 to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

Christmas - - That magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - - A day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

Augusta E. Rundell

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

C. S. Lewis

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Anthony de Mello

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

Barbara Howa

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

John Lennon

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann von Goethe

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.

Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T, The Ice Opinion

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Johann von Goethe

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

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

W. L. George

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

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles De Gaulle

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Arthur Baldwin

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Sir Winston Churchill

The love of one? s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Pablo Casals

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Rose Dorothy Franken

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams