Love Quotes

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

In love there are no vacations No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Marguerite Duras

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles De Gaulle

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Rilke

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Aharon Appelfeld

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.

Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

John the Elde

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Christopher S. Drew

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Kahlil Gibran

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

Paulo Coelho, Brida

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

Henry David Thoreau

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

The pleasure of love is in loving.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis

I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preache

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden, " the Conclusion

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Herman Hesse

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartie

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cathe

If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

William Lyon Phelps

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison