Love Quotes

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Nathan C. Schaeffe

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Buddha

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

Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.

Unknown

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must love a cat on its own terms.

Peter Gray

I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Frank Sinatra

There is only one terminal dignity - - Love.

Helen Hayes

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao Tzu

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Author Unknown

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Olga Brouman

Love rules without rules.

Italian Prove

Love is not blind - It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

Barbara Howa

He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Hamilton Wright Mabi

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes

Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.

John Donne

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

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

Joan Borysenko

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

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Honore de Balzac

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

Jimi Hendrix

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand