Love Quotes

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

William S. Gilbert

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

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

Jimi Hendrix

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

Walter Lippmann

Friendship is... the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

Clive Staples Lewis

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Jacques Maritain

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Stendhal

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tze

Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

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

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls grace from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call rigtheousness.

Victor Hugo

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartie

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Rabindranath Tagore, Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.

In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Tom Bodett

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.

Angel Blessing

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love is a kind of military service.

Latin Prove

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

Catullus

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.

Jelaluddin Rumi

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Rufus Choate

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

Virgil, Eclogues

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Hamilton Wright Mabi

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

God loves the world through us.

Mother Theresa