Love Quotes
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.Harper Lee
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.Jacques Maritain
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.George W. Bush
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.Confucius
The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.Father Andrew SDC
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.Saint Teresa of Avila
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.Mother Theresa
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.Ethel Barrymore
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.Barbara DeAngelis
Love is the essence of God.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I.W. Somerset Maugham
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.W. Somerset Maugham
To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.Theodore Roszak
The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.Israel Zangwill
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.William F. Claire
The first duty of love is to listen.Paul Tillich, O Magazine, February 2004
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.Nan Fairbrothe
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.Maurice Chevalie
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.Umberto Eco
Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.Assyrian Prove
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".
Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.Margaret Fulle
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.William Gladstone
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.Zora Neale Hurston
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
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.William Blake
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.E. M. Cioran
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.Pearl Buck
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.Jessamyn West
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
