Love Quotes

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Amy Vanderbilt

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Love is the essence of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

Hilary Duff

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - But not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Quentin Crisp

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Unknown

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

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

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

There is only one terminal dignity - - Love.

Helen Hayes

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucald

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beeche

I love to go to Washington - - If only to be near my money.

Bob Hope

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Henri Frdric Amiel

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason And bow and accept at the end Of a love or a season.

Robert Frost

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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 is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

Swedish Prove

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

George Santayana

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda