Love Quotes

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 1335 Bible

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

William Hazlitt

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

George W. Bush

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

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

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

Virgil, Eclogues

All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Ronald David Laing

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

Nelson Boswell

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

George Santayana

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets.

Jim

The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Gordon William Allport

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

Robertson Davies

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.

David Chambless

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

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

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

Henry Van Dyke

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung, "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Barbara Johnson, The Joy Journal

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Italian Prove

Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love.

Virgil

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

C. S. Lewis