Love Quotes

Love is the very essence of life.

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.

Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Amanda Cross

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.

Dr. Isaac Barrow, quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866 - 1916 by Rev. W. Odom

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill

SMILE GOD LOVES YOU.

Unknown

May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

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

Rose Dorothy Franken

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Wally Lam

Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

David B. Haight

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced.

Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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

Mother Theresa

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Love is a kind of warfare.

Ovid

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.

Helen Rowland

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

- - Aristotle

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

William Blake

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.

Erich Fromm

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

Pearl Buck

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun.

Henry Van Dyke

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

The absence of love is the most abject pain.

Herr Lipp

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Jeseph Joubert

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

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

Father Andrew SDC