Love Quotes

Ovid - love and dignity cannot share the same abode....
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann von Goethe
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl Buck
Archibald mc leish - to see the earth as it truly is, small and blue...
A good front is half the battle in love or war.
Kim Hubbard
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
Hermann Hesse
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Jackie Mason
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
Euripides, Medea, 431 B. C.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
C. S. Lewis
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Joseph Addison
At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.
Nathan C. Schaeffe
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.
Marc Maihueird
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
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie
Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
Jalal ud - Din Rumi
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Orson Scott Card
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Louise Erdrich
Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Eric Hoffe
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth
Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.
Author Unknown
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Prove
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
Jonathan Swift
Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare
Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him.
E. M. Forste
Love truth but pardon error.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
Real Live Preache
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
Matt Groening
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects