Love Quotes

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Poets generally love cats - - Because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

Marion Garretty

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

Homer, The Iliad

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Walter Benjamin

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Vincent McNa

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".

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J. M. Barrie

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Diane Ackerman

All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

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

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Anthony de Mello

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

James Kelly

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Buddha

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.

Crow, The

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

David Frye impersonating Nixon

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleepAnd miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either, But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Annie Sullivan

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

Latin Prove

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton