Love Quotes

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind 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.

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace, Odes

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Plato

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

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

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us.

Sebastian Moore

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine

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 Roumania.

Dorothy Parke

If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end.

Unknown

To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.

Sister Mary Lauretta

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

La Rochefoucauld

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Jacques Maritain

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Mother Theresa

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Christopher S. Drew

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Eudora Welty

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

Jim Bishop

Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Leo Buscaglia

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.

Virgil

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Father Jerome Cummings

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Anson Heinlein

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.

Unknown

I love youNot only for what you areBut for what I amWhen I am with you.

Roy Croft

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Hesiod

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.

Mother Theresa