Love Quotes

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
La Rochefoucald
John donne - love all love of other sights controls, and makes...
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Will Moss
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Francois Sagan
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
Kahlil gibran - work is love made visible. and if you cannot work...
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
Hartley Coleridge
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
Victor hugo, les miserables - to love another person is to see the face of god....
Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
Christopher Darlington Morley
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Erich Fromm
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore De Balzac
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.
H. L. Mencken
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann von Goethe
Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy - Turvy.
Marguerite de Valois
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
E. M. Cioran
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Willa Sibert Cathe
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Orson Scott Card
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
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucious
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk.
Alice Walke
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
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
Henry David Thoreau
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
G. K. Chesterton
Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love - - The love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
Johnson