Love Quotes

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Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert G. Ingersoll

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Marguerite Yourcenar

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Samuel Richardson

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Brontë

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

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

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

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Recipe for Coffee:

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.