Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Heywood Campbell Broun

"To love is to transform; to be a poet."

Norman O. Brown

"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

Robert Browning

"Loveliest of lovely things are they

On earth that soonest pass away.

The rose that lives its little hour

Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

William Cullen Bryant

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule."

Siddhartha Guatama Buddha

"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"Had we never loved sae kindly,

Had we never loved sae blindly,

Never met or never parted,

We had ne'er been broken-hearted!"

Robert Burns

"To see her is to love her,

And love but her forever;

For Nature made her what she is,

And never made anither!"

Robert Burns

"No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread."

Robert Burns

"No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife."

Robert Burton

"Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness."

Theodore M. Burton

"A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?"

"Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"

How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"

Love still needs expression between those who share it."

Leo Buscaglia

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time . . . It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."

Leo Buscaglia

"The person who has earned love the least needs it the most."

F. Enzio Busche

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

"L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)"

Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

"It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all.”

Samuel Butler

"All love at first, like generous wine,

Ferments and frets until tis fine;

But when tis settled on the lee,

And from the impurer matter free,

Becomes the richer still the older,

And proves the pleasanter the colder."

Samuel Butler, the older

"To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

Samuel Butler, the younger

"Respect is love in plain clothes."

Frankie Byrne

"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

George Gordon, Lord Byron

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence."

George Gordon, Lord Byron

"Love is so much better when you are not married."

Maria Callas

"The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself."

Albert Camus

"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip."

Jonathan Carroll

"France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door."

Barbara Cartland

"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough."

Dr. George Washington Carver

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."

Willa Sibert Cather

"Love not what you are, but what you may become."

Miguel de Cervantes

"Love, such as in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies."

Sabastien Chamfort

"To love is to approach each other center to center."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."

John Cheever

"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

Confucius

"He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning."

Confucius

"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile."

Sean Connery

"Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved."

George Crabbe

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Joan Crawford

"Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'"

Rodney Dangerfield

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Barbara DeAngelis

"For two people to please one another they must be very nearly alike, so that they may understand each other, and slightly different, so that they may have something to understand in each other."

Diane

"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

"We are all born for love. . . . It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

Benjamin Disreali

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

John Donne

"But love’s a malady without a cure."

John Dryden

"Pains of love be sweeter far, than all other pleasures are."

John Dryden

"When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!"

John Dryden

"If you have respect and consideration for one another, you’ll make it."

Mary Durso

"No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

Albert Einstein

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."

George Eliot

"All mankind love a lover."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife’s hatred, they are borne each of them apart."

Empedocles

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”

Euripides

"Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal."

Richard L. Evans

"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love."

Marsilio Ficino

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."

Henry Fielding

"There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die."

Thomas Ford

"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eye."

Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.

"If people are allowed to love life, then they should also be allowed to hate it."