Love Quotes

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

David Frye impersonating Nixon

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace, Odes

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Buddha

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

P. L. Berge

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.

Aimee Martin

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Ovid

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Don Barthelme

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Unknown

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Unknown

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.

The Buddha

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

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

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Boris Pasternak

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

H. L. Mencken

To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte - Melville

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.

Andrew Schneide

There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003

The road to true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson

Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.

Goldie Nash

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.

Dorothy Rothschild Parke

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

Christopher Darlington Morley