Love Quotes

Love is the very essence of life.

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

William S. Gilbert

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

H. L. Mencken

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

George Herbert

Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Thomas Merton

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.

William Wharton

Oh, that lovely title, ex - President.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Roosevelt, Eleano

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Kahlil Gibran

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible.

Herbert Welch

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - - The love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Aharon Appelfeld

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

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

Nelson Boswell

Where you find true friendship, You find true love.

Unknown

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four - Leaf clovers.

Unknown

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

Dr. Karl A. Menninge

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Henry Ward Beeche

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi