Love Quotes

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana

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

Joseph Addison

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Thomas Merton

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

Horace, Odes

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Mother Theresa

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him.

E. M. Forste

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Rabindranath Tagore, Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love and be loved is everything.

Greek Prove

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

E. M. Cioran

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

The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.

Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.

Clive Staples Lewis

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

John Christian Bovee

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.

Miguel Cerbantes

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

Adam Smith

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

George Gordon Byron

Report writing, like motor - Car driving and love - Making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.

Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

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

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalie

Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.

Jean Valjean

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

The love of democracy is that of equality.

Charles de Montesquieu

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Theresa

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Thomas Edward Bodett

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Madame Swetchine

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

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, The Way of Lao - Tzu