Love Quotes

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

Plato

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

Madame Necke

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

John Ray

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Dave Thomas

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

Ted Rall

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Lao Tzu

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

James Baldwin

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Kahlil Gibran

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isodore Duncan

The road to true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Charles Manson

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Jennifer Aniston

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Daphne Rose Kingma

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.

Victor Hugo

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.

William Hazlitt

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - That is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.

Leonard Bernstein

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

Christian Longe

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

James Barrie

What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.

William Wharton

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Amy Vanderbilt

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.

The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Turkish Prove