love quotes -legends

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fuller 

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 

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen 

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville 

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Drew Barrymore 

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney 

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Helen Rowland 

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler 

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

Helen Hayes 

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Michelangelo

I love my son and am proud of my son.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

George Orwell 

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Madonna Ciccone

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald 

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bovee 

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

James Allen 

I'm a romantic,

 and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Freddy Fender 

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Douglas Horton 

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere 

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Meir Kahane

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

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

W. H. Auden 

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Miley Cyrus 

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron 

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

James A. Baldwin 

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Emmet Fox 

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh 

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese

Love Quotes ( legends)

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Friedrich Nietzsche 

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tzu 

Comfort, Fit, Scholar Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau 

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Frost 

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

Tim Tebow 

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Morihei Ueshiba

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Woody Allen

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.

LL Cool J 

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

George Washington Carver 

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle 

Humor, Heart, True

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

Edgar Winter 

Work, Pay, Imagine

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Simone de Beauvoir 

Same, Serious, Sense

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Jackie Kennedy 

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

John Ruskin 

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Bertrand Russell

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Erich Fromm 

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Eden Ahbez 

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Charles Baudelaire 

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Emma Goldman 

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Bertrand Russell 

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love Quotes (Legends)

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

Leo Tolstoy 

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Arthur Conan Doyle 

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

William Shakespeare 

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare 

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton 

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau 

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

Leo Buscaglia 

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine 

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran 

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Marilyn Monroe 

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Thomas Jefferson 

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

C. S. Lewis 

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Khalil Gibran 

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin 

I love life because what more is there?

Anthony Hopkins 

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

Oscar Wilde 

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Oscar Wilde 

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Oscar Wilde 

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving 

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Ronald Reagan 

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Mahatma Gandhi 

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Thomas Moore 

All you need is love.

John Lennon 

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Bryant H. McGill 

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love Quotes(Legends)

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon 

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Sai Baba 

Moving On, Greatest, Help There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa 

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine 

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Khalil Gibran 

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Wayne Dyer 

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

Billy Graham 

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

Keanu Reeves 

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 

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller 

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Johnny Depp 

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Maya Angelou 

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams 

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

Joseph Addison 

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

Mark Twain 

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Jesus Christ 

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa 

The man of knowle

dge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche 

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

William Shakespeare 

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato 

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs 

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

Henry Ward Beecher 

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Chuck Palahniuk 

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Philip James Bailey 

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Mother Teresa 

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

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.

Barbara Smith 

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi