975 private quotes tagged love

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

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

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“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.” — Erich Fromm

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

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“We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.” — Albert Camus

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

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“To love another person is to see the face of God.” — Victor Hugo

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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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“Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.” — 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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“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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“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I love those who do not know how to live for today.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.” — William Shakespeare

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“I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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

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“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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