975 private quotes tagged love

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” — Plato

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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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“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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“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin

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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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“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.” — Herman Melville

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“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.” — Julia Child

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

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“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.” — Thomas Moore

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“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.” — Benjamin Franklin

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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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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

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“Friendship is Love without his wings!” — Lord Byron

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“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.” — Michael Jordan

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“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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