Love Quotes

No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.

Francois Mauriac

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.

Buddha

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

Mother Teresa

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

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

Jimi Hendrix

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Ernest Dimnet

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

Sloan Wilson

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality".

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Emma Albani

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

Unknown

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Erich Fromm

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - If you love them enough.

George Washington Carve

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

Unknown

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Lao Tzu

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

We must love one another and die.

W. H. Auden, revised "Sept. 1, 1939".

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie A. Stanley

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

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

Simone de Beauvoi

Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

God loves the world through us.

Mother Theresa

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Lord Bertrand Russell

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Alexandre Dumas

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.

Jelaluddin Rumi

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