Love Quotes

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

Robert Anthony

I was in love with loving.

Saint Augustine, Confessions

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

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

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

W. H. Auden

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann von Goethe

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

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

Charles A. Stoddard

Love cures people - - Both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy?

Martha Beck

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.

Unknown

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts

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.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefelle

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

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Erich Fromm

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Vincent McNa

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Nancy Mitford

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

John Lennon

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Italian Prove

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.

Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

John Gay

Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fulle

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798