A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

I was adored once too.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

Those whom we can love we can hate, to others we are indifferent.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Love is a trap. When it appears we see only its light, not its shadows.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity, in a girl boldness.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.

In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

You can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love and peace.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

If others must serve you, serve them first, love begets love, trust engenders trust.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Before marriage a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage she has to hold him to make love to him.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

I haven't had that one great love which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Let none think to fly the danger, for soon or late love is his own avenger.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above, those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

From your parents you learn love, and laughter, and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.

What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes, he who loves no one has no woes.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Love knows not distance, it hath no continent, its eyes are for the stars.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them, and so perhaps it would if they had it.

I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Love begins at home and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

Girls we love for what they are, young men for what they promise to be.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Religion is lovable because it is loved. Philosophy is loved because it is lovable.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Speak low if you speak love.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty and love from woes.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Do what you love. Know your own bone, gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it and gnaw it still.

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.

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All because I love you. All because you love me.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does, and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves their conduct will pursue their principles unto death.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Most people would rather get than give affection

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Dispel desire, Develop true love.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine and man cannot live without love.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it or change it.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Of life's two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart, and the second in a laborer's hand.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love, it is the prerogative of the brave.

So then the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

The lovesick, the betrayed and the jealous all smell alike.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

One is very crazy when in love.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

Seek Love in the pity of others' woe, In the gentle relief of another's care, In the darkness of night and the winter's snow, In the naked and outcast seek Love there!

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation, of children in arms, and men in love.

He that is jealous is not in love.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

I love color - I'm not a beige kind of girl.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

He who loves not his country can love nothing

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Where love is there God is also.

The more I know of the world the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Children begin by loving their parents, after a time they judge them, rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Unity is vital for all wherever they are and whatever their country, religion or sex. Love should be the unifying force.

Wicked men obey out of fear, good men out of love.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

It's crazy to take little in between jobs just because they look good on your resume. That's like saving sex for your old age. Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.

Love is the answer and you know that for sure, Love is a flower you've got to let it grow.

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball

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.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Love is the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

My task is the spiritual regeneration of Humanity through Truth and Love.

What I know is is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I love technology.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially, because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence and love and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love, but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Have the Love of God filling and thrilling your heart, then you cannot hate anyone.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest, dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner by the fireside with your slippers on your feet?

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Of all the varieties of virtues liberalism is the most beloved.

You gotta love livin' baby 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Whatever work we do, whatever sacrifices we perform, they are not of much use in the absence of love.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments to your destiny.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love like the cat?

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

She was a blessing. She was an angel. She was my baby.

Call not that man wretched who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

Hatred is blind as well as love.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So spread your love everywhere you go.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house that's what it means.

It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog, and sometimes for a man.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

Make love and not war! 

I don't wanna wait in vain for your love.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

My love's more richer than my tongue.

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.

Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move his aides, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, the pretty follies that themselves commit.

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

This is very midsummer madness.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, and art would be useless.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello goodbye.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.

Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; If we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyze us.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Love and serve the homeland, do not hate or hurt the homeland of others.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty, than the person who has nothing to eat.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give the more they possess.

It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. 

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers the sky.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don't love to be loved, we love to love.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue and abiding love.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

As a child, the family that I had, and the love I had from my two parents, allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that if I failed I could always come home to a family of love and support.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

Plato is dear to me but dearer still is truth.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The dupe of friendship and the fool of love, have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do, and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back many times over what you put into it.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Love builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this this isn't him. This is not him.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds, yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The more one loves a mistress the more one is ready to hate her.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

The word 'romance' according to the dictionary means excitement, adventure and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.

Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love.

Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.

The end of knowledge is LOVE. The end of education is character.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love, than one who inspires fear.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination, full of hope.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me 'I love you'. There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt'.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me, I've all but riches bodily.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.