Love Quotes

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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

Richard Dehmel

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Buck

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.

Mother Theresa

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.

Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II

You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn.

Alanis Morissette

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Jelaluddin Rumi

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao Tzu

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Luther Standing Bea

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Father Jerome Cummings

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.

Henry Van Dyke

The course of true love was never easy.

William Shakespeare

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent

Love is merely madness.

Shakespeare

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

Mohammed

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Rmy de Gourmont

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore De Balzac

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.

Jonathan Swift

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara DeAngelis

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Measure your life in love.

Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent

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

Father Andrew SDC

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum