Best Love Quotes

• Love doesn't cause pain, people do. Unknown

• Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. Louis Gerstner

• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden

• It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell

• I love those who yearn for the impossible. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau

• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland

• There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer

• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. Dan Millman

• Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. Elbert Hubbard

• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. Oliver Goldsmith

• If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau

• Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him. Michael Jackson

• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa

• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Rabindranath Tagore

• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer

• Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. Billie Holiday

• He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides

• So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise. Swift, Jonathan

• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. John Barrymore

• I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore. Billy Idol

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham

• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius

• But love's a malady without a cure. John Dryden

• Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller

• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? Unknown

• Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery. Fulton J. Sheen

• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh

• The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time. Julia Child

• We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Maritain, Jacques

• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Honore de Balzac

• There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. Erich Fromm

• Above our life we love a steadfast friend. Christopher Marlowe

• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Igor Stravinsky

• Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women. Will Smith

• If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours. Charles Caleb Colton

• Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. George S. Patton

• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi

• Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. William Congreve

• There is no remedy for love but to love more. Thoreau, Henry David

• We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Henry Ward Beecher

• Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. Florian, Jean Pierre Claris

• All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

• To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. H. L. Mencken

• Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Henny Youngman

• The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt

• Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius

• You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara de Angelis

• Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Friedrich Nietzsche

• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald

• It is most unwise for people in love to marry. George Bernard Shaw

• I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it. Edgar Winter

• It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. Niccolo Machiavelli

• The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. Johnny Depp

• The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent Van Gogh

• We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. Sigmund Freud

• There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. Wilhelm von Leibnitz, Gottfried

• We pardon to the extent that we love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. Thomas Merton

• You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person. Hillary Clinton

• Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. Ovid

• Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited. Duke Ellington

• All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews

• Love is love's reward. John Dryden

• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton

• A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil

• I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. Anais Nin

• When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

• O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me. Donne, John

• One is very crazy when in love. Sigmund Freud

• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino

• In love there are two things - bodies and words. Joyce Carol Oates

• Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. Christopher Marlowe

• Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. Raymond Chandler

• When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. Oscar Wilde

• The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. Edwin Louis Cole

• He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin

• 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

• Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. Marilyn Monroe

• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Friedrich Nietzsche

• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino

• In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. Judy Garland

• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa

• The hunger for love is much more difficult to removethan the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa

• I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats

• Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. Edward Abbey

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

• Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another. Mencken, H.L.

• There is no limit to the power of loving. John Morton

• Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. Keanu Reeves

• I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. Claude Chabrol