Quotes On Love

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare (1564 ~ 1616)

Life^s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo (1802 ~ 1885), Les Miserables, 1862

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich (1886 ~ 1965), O Magazine, February 2004

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004

Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh (1910 ~ 1987)

We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch (1919 ~ 1999), O Magazine, February 2004

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919 ~ 1999)

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T, The Ice Opinion

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 ~ 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken (1880 ~ 1956)

Love is everything it^s cracked up to be...It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
John 15:13 and 14 (NIV)

Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?
37 Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
Matthew 22:34 to 40 (NIV)