Love Quotes

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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Wisława Szymborska

There is no sign of leaf or bud,
A hush is over everything —
Silent as women wait for love,
The world is waiting for the spring.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara De Angelis

When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets,
And love will steer the stars;
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

What is love? … It is the morning and the evening star.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory, and besides were my love when I was a young man. Cauliflowers exemplify a second area of great simplicity, that of shapes which appear more or less the same as you look at them up close or from far away, as you zoom in and zoom out.
Before my work, those shapes had no use, hence no word was needed to denote them. My work created such a need and I coined "fractals."

Benoît Mandelbrot

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Teresa of Ávila

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.

There are so many disciplines in being a parent besides the obvious ones like getting up in the night and putting up with the noise in the day. And almost the hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain, to show them we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrother

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Frederick William Robertson

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.