Love Quotes

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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

Brennan Manning

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law.
"Obedience keeps the rules," he would say. "Love knows when to break them."

Anthony de Mello

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Samuel Richardson

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence?

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

The gift from those I loved so tenderly added more and more impulse to my deeply seated love of the beautiful and from the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to be as a living thing, with voice and memory and memory and creative vigour.

Julia Margaret Cameron

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love...

Where both deliberate, the love is slight;
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

And now, together – on eagle's wings – we embark on the work that God and history have called upon us to do. With full hearts and steady hands, with faith in America and in each other, with a love of country – and a thirst for justice – let us be the nation that we know we can be. A nation united. A nation strengthened. A nation healed. The United States of America.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Natalie Goldberg

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat,
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

Stephen Vincent Benét

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.