Love Quotes

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

Jessamyn West

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.

John Donne

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Barbara Johnson, The Joy Journal

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.

Helen Rowland

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

Tom Lehre

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

Sri da Avabhas

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

Johann von Goethe

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Theresa

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Unknown

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

You can do no great things, just small things with great love.

Mother Teresa, Robin Williams

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Karl Shapiro

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

Swedish Prove

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment".

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

Jesus

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

Vincent McNa

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

H. L. Mencken

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.

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

Nancy Mitford

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Jelaluddin Rumi

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

Bette Davis