Love Quotes
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.Brian Aldiss
He drew a circle that shut me out - - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.Edwin Markham
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
None love the messenger who brings bad news.Sophocles
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.Mother Theresa
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.Abraham Joshua Heschel
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.Ovid
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - Brothers who know now they are truly brothers.Archibald Mc Leish
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872)
Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.David B. Haight
The wise man will love all others will desire.Afranius
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
One forgives to the degree that one loves.La Rochefoucauld
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.William Blake
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.Quentin Crisp
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.John Henry Newman
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.Marge Piercy
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.Lord Byron
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.Henry Van Dyke
Who so loves believes the impossible.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To be loved, be lovable.Ovid, Ars Amatoria
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them.Lauren Edwards
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.R. A. Dickson
Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.Marc Maihueird
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
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.Buddha
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.Anthony Powell
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
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
We like someone because. We love someone although.Henri De Montherlant
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.Og Mandino
