Love Quotes

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

Albert Camus

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

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

Confucious

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christmas - - That magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - - A day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

Augusta E. Rundell

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Jeseph Joubert

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

John Christian Bovee

If rough be love with you, be rough with love.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike

Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.

Goldie Nash

What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love.

Victor Hugo

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

A. S. Neill, Summerhill

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Victor Hugo

We must love one another or die.

W. H. Auden, "September 1, 1939".

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Matt Groening, "Life in Hell".

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3

As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.

Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Norman Lindsay

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Alexis Carrel

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

Catullus

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Joseph Alsop

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.

Tom Lehre

O, what a heaven is love, O, what a hell.

Thomas Dekke