Love Quotes

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

G. K. Chesterton

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Madame Swetchine

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Emma Albani

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Martin Luther King

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Burns

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Unknown

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. For even love unreturned has its rainbow.

J. M. Barrie

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Tom Lehre

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible.

Herbert Welch

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Rmy de Gourmont

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

Saint Augustine, Confessions

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Coming to America

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalie

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

Richard Dehmel

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

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

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, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.