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Quotes about Love


One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love—any love— reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Cesare Pavese

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William M. Thackeray

The essence of love begins when infatuation ends.

Source Unknown

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislike being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

Ninon De Lenclos

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. [Lat., Si possem sanior essem. Sed trahit invitam nova vis; aliudque Cupido, Mens aliud.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,-- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

Thomas Gibbons

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]

Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Leonard Cohen

O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence Love takes the meaning in love's conference.

William Shakespeare

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Susan Aeschylus

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Zen Buddhist

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS.

Mahatma Gandhi

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24].

Father Alfred Bible

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

This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

John F Pilgrims

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Louisa May Pilgrims

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Mother Theresa

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Fredrich Martin

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

James Allen

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. The Brothers Karamazov .

Dovstoyevsky

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Marcus T. Cicero

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.

Rush Rumi

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

M. Russell Ballard

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