Love Quotes

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People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
La Rochefoucauld
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
King soloman - comfort me with apples, for i am sick of love....
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Francis
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladstone
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.
Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Kahlil Gibran
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
Italian Prove
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frdric Amiel
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
Charles A. Stoddard
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo.
Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup" 1934
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Lynda Barry
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sonia Taitz
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.
John Fellows Akers
To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.
Sister Mary Lauretta
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
Katharn Hepburn
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
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through.
Simone Weil
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Johann von Goethe
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
Francois Fenelon