Love Quotes

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Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellsworth Huntington

Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

William Barclay

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.

William Lloyd Garrison

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

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.

Richard Lovelace

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a 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.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Barbara Cartland

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

Gertrude Jekyll

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer