Love Quotes

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Brendan Francis Behan

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Horace Bushnell

The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

Marlene Dietrich

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

Bell Hooks

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

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

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjld

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Kahlil Gibran

My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Sir Thomas More

We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.

Unknown, Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

John Gay

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

August Strindberg

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabo

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartie

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Douglas Adams

I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough.

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Newman

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

Reinhold Niebuh

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

Ovid

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

Saint Augustine, Confessions