Love Quotes

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Giuseppe Mazzini

A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Isabelle Eberhardt

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder. Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working ; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Francis de Sales

Man can certainly keep on lying (and he does so); but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel (he does so); but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. He can certainly flee from God (he does so) ; but he cannot escape Him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God (he does and is so) ; but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in His hate. He can certainly give himself to isolation (he does so — he thinks, wills and behaves godlessly, and is godless) ; but even in his isolation he must demonstrate that which he wishes to controvert — the impossibility of playing the "individual" over against God. He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do it? I don't know, but I feel it happening and am tortured.

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Olive Schreiner

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Barbara De Angelis

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.