Love Quotes

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question.

Edith Ann

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

J. Krishnamurti

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stephenson

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

G. K. Chesterton

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

Love is not blind - - It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Julian Weber Gordon

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fulle

War is like love it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.

Clarence Jordan

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

Joan Borysenko

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters".

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beeche

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy - Going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Ovid

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

Afranius

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment".

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Iris Murdoch

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.

Juvenal

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Barbara DeAngelis

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough