Love Quotations | Page 3

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'

As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.

One of the most popular games to watch on eSports is 'League of Legends,' a game that blends role-playing, managing resources and shouting at your friends. Again, if I had another thousand words, I might be able to scratch the surface of this game, but all you need to know is that gamers love to play it, and even more of them love to watch it.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.

I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

I absolutely love spending time with my family.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

I absolutely love 'Four In A Bed.' Before I started filming, and I was unemployed, it was the focus of my day. Four B&B owners go to each other's B&Bs, have a meal and stay over, and then pay what they think the room was worth. At the end of the week, they sit down together and open each other's envelopes, and they all start rowing.

I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.

I just love coming to Vegas. There is always a good energy here; the minute you get off the plane, it is happy. Every experience I have had here is fun, and everyone is in a good mood; they are happy, and they let it go. I like that. It is refreshing to me.

I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.

Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.

I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives.

I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.