975 private quotes tagged love

“Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” — Lord Byron

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

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“Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.” — George S. Patton

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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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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.” — George Eliot

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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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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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“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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“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” — William Shakespeare

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“Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell

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“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.” — Khalil Gibran

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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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“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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“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.” — Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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