Love Quotes

A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.

Unknown

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

Charles Manson

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

Mother Teresa

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

Lavina Christensen Fugal

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucious

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

S. S. Biddle

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying...... It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Mother Theresa

Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Leo Buscaglia

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

We are what we love, not what loves us.

Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

The love of democracy is that of equality.

Charles de Montesquieu

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

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

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Marianne Williamson

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.

William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Theresa

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

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

Mother Theresa

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyste

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplie

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Nancy Mitford

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjld

Life Is A Challenge - Meet It Life Is A Song - Sing It Life Is A Dream - Realize It Life Is A Game - Play It Life Is Love - Enjoy It.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The very essence of love is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.

John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956