Love Quotes

Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.

Bruce Cockburn

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Boris Pasternak

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

Him that I love, I wish to be free - - Even from me.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Saint Francis de Sales

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

Katharn Hepburn

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Mignon McLaughlin

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.

West African prove

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

Change everything except your loves.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

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

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

Purity, patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Emo Philips

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence.

Erich Fromm

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Anson Heinlein

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

Houssaye

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Anouk Aimee

Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.

Anon.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept