Love Quotes
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
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
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty - Five - Year - Old men more.Collen McCullough
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.Roger Rosenblatt
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.Henri De Regnie
I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED.Song of Songs 21 Bible
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
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.William Wharton
The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness humility and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love.Stephen Shobe
The best love affairs are those we never had.Norman Lindsay
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.Henri Frdric Amiel
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.Daisaku Ikeda
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.Henri Frdric Amiel
My mother loved children - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.Woody Allen
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.George Orwell, 1984
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?Jackie Mason
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.The Buddha
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 11 - 04
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.Lord Chesterfield
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.John Christian Bovee
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
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
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.Zora Neale Hurston
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.H. L. Mencken
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.Mother Theresa
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters".
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.Hubert Humphrey
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
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.William Shakespeare
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
