Love Quotes

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

~ Saint Ignatius

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

~ Ramakrishna

Where love is, there God is also.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

~ Joan Chen

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

~ Anne Rice

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

~ Charles L. Allen

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

~ Mary J. Blige

We are made to know and love God.

~ Nicolas Malebranche

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

~ Bertrand Russell

I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like - that it's not just knowledge... but it's allowing the truth to change you - allowing Christ's message of grace and hope and love through the cross, that that message is the message that changes the way we look at everything in our lives.

~ Ben Zobrist

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

~ Luther Burbank

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

~ Jeff Greenfield

While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.

~ Sheldon Lee Glashow

In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can.

~ Duane Allman

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

~ Cathy Freeman

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

~ Peter Lombard

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

~ Lao Tzu

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ George Bernard Shaw

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

~ Anne Sullivan

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.

~ Marianne Williamson

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

~ Marsha Norman

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

~ James Herriot

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

~ Nafisa Joseph

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

~ Dick Dale

Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

~ Cesar Millan

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

~ Tracey Emin

Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!

~ Alison Sweeney

My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

~ French Montana

My big pet peeve with people posting food - and I love it when people post food - but my number one thing is when you're posting at a restaurant, and it's dark, like a date night, food never looks good. Flash looks horrible, no flash looks horrible. It's important to only do food photos during daylight - and it's all about color with Instagram.

~ Chrissy Teigen

I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

~ Hansika Motwani

I love animals. I just don't want to have a pet. That's OK, right? I would take a dog over a cat, at least to interact with you. I feel like cats just stare you down all the time. Cats have, like, bad attitudes.

~ Erin Foster