975 private quotes tagged love

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

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“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“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

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“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

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“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.” — Albert Camus

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“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.” — Mason Cooley

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“I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.” — Albert Camus

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“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“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

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“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.” — John Lennon

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“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” — Oscar Wilde

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“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

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“If I love you, what business is it of yours?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.” — Victor Hugo

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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

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“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.” — Khalil Gibran

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“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

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“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” — Aristotle

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