Love Quotes

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

La Rochefoucald

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

Janina Atkins

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.

Bernard Grasset

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.

Ramakrishna

I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Brooks Atkinson

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao - Tzu

In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us.

Sebastian Moore

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy?

Martha Beck

Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.

Erich Fromm

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

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

Olga Brouman

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

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

People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

Graham Greene, A Burnt - Out Case

What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Italian Prove

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Russell Bake

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Rev. Theodore Hegburgh

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

Hamilton Wright Mabi

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

In love, one and one are one.

Jean - Paul Sartre

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

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

Joseph Alsop

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles