True Love Quotes - Page 19

• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

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• Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Love, Hate, Views

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• If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

  A. Edward Newton

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

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• We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Life, Funny Marriage

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• To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that's everything.

  Themis Tolis

  Love, Best Love, Love Is

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• Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, First Love, Inspire

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• I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Romance, Actors

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• No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Keys, Order

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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• Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  People, Easier, Dies

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Love, Believe, Personality

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• A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Men, Voice

  "Emerson's Works".

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• To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Life, Relationship

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.9

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• With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Pleasure, Ends

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.113, Wildside Press LLC

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• Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love withouten measure; desire withouten limit; longing withouten order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread distressed, nor by doom tempted.

  Richard Rolle

  Love, Order, Giving

  "The Fire of Love".

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• Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Love, Way, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.439

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• Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

  Richard Sibbes

  Love, Clouds, Light

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• A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

  John of the Cross

  Love, Christian, Spiritual

  Saint John of the Cross (1957). “The dark night of the soul”

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• The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Men, Ideas

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• I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

  Beverly Sills

  Love, Feel Better, Maturity

  "Bubbles: A Self-portrait". Book by Beverly Sills, p. 114, 1976.

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• We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Ifs, Cease

  "Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Act 2)". Three-act drama by Madame de Stael, 1790.

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• If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Drowning, Save Me

  Judith Viorst (2008). “Grown-Up Marriage: What We Know, Wish We Had Known, and Still Need to Know About Being Married”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

  Norman MacCaig

  Nice, Book, Thinking

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• Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

  St. Jerome

  Love, Affection, Love You

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

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