Love Quotes

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.

Jonathan Swift

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.

Jonathan Swift

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

John Donne

Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie.

J. D., "Heathers".

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Kelle

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Unknown

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 love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Robin Williams

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Hermann Hesse

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - This is an old rule.

The Dhammapada

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

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours.

Prove

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.

Oscar Wilde

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.

Sophocles

You God have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine