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

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

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

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“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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“Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.” — Voltaire

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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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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs

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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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“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.” — Aldous Huxley

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“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.” — Erich Fromm

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

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