975 private quotes tagged love

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.” — Iris Murdoch

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“People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.” — Clint Eastwood

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“A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.” — Ninon de L'Enclos

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“I love to hit people. I love to.” — Mike Tyson

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“Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.” — Dan Millman

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“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” — Barbara de Angelis

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“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” — Paul McCartney

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“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” — Mary Oliver

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“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

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“A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.” — Pearl Bailey

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“I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.” — Todd Barry

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“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.” — Julia Roberts

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“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.” — George McGovern

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“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” — Pietro Aretino

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“In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.” — Tori Amos

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“A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.” — Chuck D.

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“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.” — Honore de Balzac

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“I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.” — Tori Amos

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“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold

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“The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” — Henry Miller

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“Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.” — Octavio Paz

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