975 private quotes tagged love

“Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.”— William Barclay

“Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.”— Katharine Hepburn

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”— James A. Baldwin

“Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!”— Sitting Bull

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”— Marianne Williamson

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”— Henry Van Dyke

“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.”— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”— Niccolo Machiavelli

“I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.”— Drew Barrymore

“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.”— Francois Rabelais

“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”— Emma Goldman

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”— John Keats

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”— Queen Elizabeth II

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”— Nikola Tesla

“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”— Cathy Guisewite

“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”— Sarah Bernhardt

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”— Honore de Balzac

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”— Garrison Keillor

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”— Bryant H. McGill

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”— Peter Ustinov

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”— Jim Morrison

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”— Lily Tomlin

“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”— Charles Caleb Colton