Love Quotes

"Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile"

"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation"

"He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish"

"It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon"

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well"

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live"

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love"

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise"

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before"

"We never love a person, but only qualities"

"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to"

"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power"

"If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love"

"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane"

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

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us"

"There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings"

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants"

"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor"

"Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love"

"For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness"

"Love is the only gold"

"Hatred observes with more care than love does"

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love"

"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted"

"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism"

"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent"

"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself"

"Don't forget to love yourself"

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix"

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass"

"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art"

"Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel"

"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality"

"Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself"

"There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars"

"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter"

"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone"

"The way to know life is to love many things"