Love Quotes

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

George John Whyte - Melville

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman? s name and claim to love her.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, October 20, 2003

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Lucille Ball

And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.

Colin Raye

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Kahlil Gibran

What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Russell Bake

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adle

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

Lavina Christensen Fugal

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Unknown

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

Reinhold Niebuh

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

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self - Love.

Lewis Lew Wallace

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Saul Bellow

Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

Having a place to go - Is a home. Having someone to love - Is a family. Having both - Is a blessing.

Donna Hedges

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

Juvenal

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - - To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Henry Louis Mencken

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.

Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Charles Manson

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy?

Martha Beck

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Ethel Watts Mumford

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

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Father Jerome Cummings