Love Quotes

"Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death"

"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only"

"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach"

"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love"

"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all"

"It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing"

"If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion"

"If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion"

"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other"

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live"

"Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference"

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration"

"The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend"

"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office"

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new"

"Love is being stupid together"

"Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life"

"But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere"

"The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes"

"Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit"

"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new"

"Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy"

"If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey"

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success"

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another"

"I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity"

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second"

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive"

"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives"

"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes"

"I live and love in God's peculiar light"

"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all"

"Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game"

"For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place"

"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him"

"But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price"

"Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her"

"People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves"

"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them"

"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness"