975 private quotes tagged love

“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.” — Milan Kundera

0 favs

“Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.” — Pierre Beaumarchais

0 favs

“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.” — Helen Rowland

0 favs

“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.” — Arthur Rimbaud

0 favs

“Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.” — Gerald Jampolsky

0 favs

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.” — Natalie Goldberg

0 favs

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” — Gustave Flaubert

0 favs

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.” — Joseph Conrad

0 favs

“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” — George Chakiris

0 favs

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” — Stendhal

0 favs

“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

0 favs

“I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.” — Jean Cocteau

0 favs

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.” — Amelia Earhart

0 favs

“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” — Billy Graham

0 favs

“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.” — Henny Youngman

0 favs

“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.” — Mother Teresa

0 favs

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.” — Mother Teresa

0 favs

“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.” — Tad Williams

0 favs

“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.” — Pope John Paul II

0 favs

“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.” — Paul Walker

0 favs

“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.” — Anthony Hopkins

0 favs

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” — Albert Schweitzer

0 favs

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Joseph Addison

0 favs

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

0 favs

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.” — Robert A. Heinlein

0 favs