Love Quotes

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
– Ramsey Clark
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
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
– Confucius
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
– Robertson Davies
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
– Simone de Beauvoir
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
– Ernest Dimnet
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
– Denise Dobbs
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
– Isadora Duncan
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
– Hugh Elliott
If there’s one thing I know it’s God does love a good joke.
– Hugh Elliott
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
– Alice Thomas Ellis
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
– Euripides
Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?
– Josh Brand and John Falsey
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
– Francois de Fenelon
Love is the reason for it all.
– Dorothy Fields
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
– Charles Fox
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
– Robert Frost
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
– Jose Ortega y Gasset
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
– W. L. George
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
– Rabbi Julius Gordon
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
– Katharine Graham
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
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
– G. Stanley Hall
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
– Sir Arthur Helps
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
– Alice Hoffman
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
– Homer
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
– Bell Hooks
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
– Horace
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
– Victor Hugo
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
– Ice T
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
– Mark Jenkins
If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.
– Norah Jones
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
– Erica Jong
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
– Carl Gustav Jung
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.
– Thomas a Kempis
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
– Corita Kent
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind 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.
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
– R. D. Laing
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
– Wally Lamb
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
– Ann Landers
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
– Lao Tzu
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
– Hamilton Wright Mabi
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
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
– Madonna
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
– Norman Mailer
Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.
– Jeff Mallett
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
– Andre Malraux
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
– Don Marquis
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
– Michael Masser and Linda Creed
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
– W. Somerset Maugham
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
– W. Somerset Maugham
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
– David C. McCullough
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
– Peter McWilliams
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
– Jeff Melvoin
What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.
– Jeff Melvoin
I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.
– Moby
The love of democracy is that of equality.
– Charles de Montesquieu
Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known thee then,
Our souls had not been slow to meet!
But oh! this weary heart hath run
So many a time the rounds of pain,
Not even for thee, thou lovely one!
Would I endure such pangs again.
– Sir Thomas More
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
– Christopher Morley
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
– Toni Morrison
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
– National Lampoon
Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
(Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)
– Pablo Neruda
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
– Friedrich Nietzsche
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
– Anais Nin
Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.
– Mary O'Hara
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
– Ovid
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
– Ovid
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
– Dorothy Parker
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.
– Trey Parker and Matt Stone
I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.
– Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
– M. Scott Peck
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
– William Penn
[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
Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.
– Robert C. Pollock
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
– Sextus Propertius
A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.
– Cuban Proverb
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
– English Proverb
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
– Spanish Proverb
There is no wisdom without love.
– N. Sri Ram
There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.
– Real Live Preacher
I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
– Real Live Preacher
God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
– Real Live Preacher
I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
– Real Live Preacher
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
– Real Live Preacher
Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
– Real Live Preacher
You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
– Real Live Preacher