Love Quotes

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.

Victor Hugo

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk.

Alice Walke

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Emma Albani

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

Robert Anthony

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland

If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours.

Prove

O, what a heaven is love, O, what a hell.

Thomas Dekke

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

Groucho Marx

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Turkish Prove

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Mother Theresa

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love and you shall be loved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussy - Rabutin

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - - Can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Barbara She

A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.

Unknown

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

Richard Dehmel

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

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".

Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Thomas Merton

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

Mother Theresa

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

Ovid

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

Robert Frost

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

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney