Love Quotes

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Saint Francis of Assisi

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Psalm 1272 Bible

Love is not blind - It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

Karl Shapiro

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Rothschild Parke

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

August Strindberg

To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

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

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Iris Murdoch

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arnay

Love tells us many things that are not so.

Ukranian Prove

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.

Roland Stahle

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Addison Mizne

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.

Andrew Schneide

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Sydney Harris

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Unknown

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

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Gordon William Allport

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

Art Costa

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E e cummings

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

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

May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Martin Luther King, Jr.