975 private quotes tagged love

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

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“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.” — Voltaire

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“I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.” — Nelson Mandela

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“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

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“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.” — George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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“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

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“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Where love is, there God is also.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.” — George Eliot

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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 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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“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” — Brian Tracy

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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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“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.” — Ray Bradbury

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

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“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” — Lao Tzu

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“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.” — William Shakespeare

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“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.” — Khalil Gibran

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