Love Quotes

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

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

Richard Dehmel

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.

Sanaya Roman

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know they real truth about his or her love affairs.

Rebecca West

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T, The Ice Opinion

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

Charles A. Stoddard

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

William Shakespeare

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.

Zsa Zsa Gabo

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters".

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Nathan C. Schaeffe

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Father Jerome Cummings

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Saint Augustine

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Ovid

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat 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

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isodore Duncan

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.

Oscar Wilde

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

Iris Murdoch

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

In love, one and one are one.

Jean - Paul Sartre

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello