Quotes on love

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

Author: Aaliyah

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

Author: Willie Aames

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Author: Edward Abbey

There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say.

Author: Paula Abdul

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Author: Paula Abdul

I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

Author: Paula Abdul

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

Author: F. Abraham

I love parties. I love a good time.

Author: F. Abraham

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

Author: Casey Abrams

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

Author: Casey Abrams

I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

Author: Casey Abrams

There's nothing more human than two people making love.

Author: Victoria Abril

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

Author: Victoria Abril

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Author: Kathy Acker

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Author: Diane Ackerman

I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely!'

Author: Jensen Ackles

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

Author: Jensen Ackles

I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.

Author: Amy Adams

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Author: Ansel Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Author: Douglas Adams

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Author: John Adams

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Author: Joseph Addison

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Author: Joseph Addison

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Author: Alfred Adler

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Author: Felix Adler

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Author: Felix Adler

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Author: Mortimer Adler

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

Author: Mortimer Adler

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

Author: Mortimer Adler

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

Author: Mortimer Adler

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Author: Mortimer Adler

We love even when our love is not requited.

Author: Mortimer Adler

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Author: Mortimer Adler

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

Author: Mortimer Adler

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Love without conversation is impossible.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Author: Theodor Adorno

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

Author: Theodor Adorno

There is no love that is not an echo.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Author: Aeschylus

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

Author: Casey Affleck

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

Author: Casey Affleck

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.

Author: Eden Ahbez

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

Author: Clay Aiken

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

Author: Clay Aiken

I love you, what star do you live on?

Author: Conrad Aiken

I am marrying her because I love her.

Author: Akihito

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning," she said. "How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

Author: Lauren Alaina

I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.

Author: Lauren Alaina

I love very much to draw animals.

Author: Josef Albers

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

Author: Eddie Albert

Love each other or die.

Author: Mitch Albom

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Author: Madeleine Albright

Love is a great beautifier.

Author: Louisa Alcott

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

Author: Alan Alda

I paint because I love to cut mats.

Author: Arthur Alexander

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

Author: Khandi Alexander

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

Author: Sasha Alexander

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

Author: Shana Alexander

Words of love, are works of love.

Author: William Alger

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Author: Nelson Algren

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I love to doubt as well as know.

Author: Dante Alighieri

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.

Author: Charles Allen

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

Author: Fred Allen

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Author: James Allen

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Author: James Allen

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Author: Karen Allen

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

Author: Karen Allen

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

Author: Krista Allen

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

Author: Krista Allen

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.

Author: Richie Allen

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Author: Roland Allen

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

Author: Roland Allen

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

Author: Ted Allen

What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.

Author: Ted Allen

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Author: Woody Allen

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Author: Woody Allen

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

Author: Kirstie Alley

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

Author: Dorothy Allison

You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.

Author: Gregg Allman

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town.

Author: Lauren Ambrose

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

Author: Lauren Ambrose

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Author: William Ames

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

Author: Kingsley Amis

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

Author: Tori Amos

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Author: Tori Amos

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Author: Anacreon

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

Author: Anacreon

I love X-Games music.

Author: Jon Anderson

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

Author: Laurie Anderson

Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.

Author: Louie Anderson

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Author: Margaret Anderson

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

Author: Pamela Anderson

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Author: Sherwood Anderson

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Author: Walter Anderson

I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

Author: Ursula Andress

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Author: Julie Andrews

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

Author: Julie Andrews

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Author: Julie Andrews

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

Author: Julie Andrews

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

Author: Barbara Angelis

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Author: Barbara Angelis

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Author: Barbara Angelis

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.

Author: Barbara Angelis

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

Author: Barbara Angelis

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Author: Barbara Angelis

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.

Author: Maya Angelou

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Author: Maya Angelou

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

Author: Maya Angelou

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

Author: Maya Angelou

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Author: Maya Angelou

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Author: Maya Angelou

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Author: Maya Angelou

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Author: Jean Anouilh

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Author: Jean Anouilh

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Author: Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Author: Jean Anouilh

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

Author: David Ansen

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

Author: Piers Anthony

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

Author: Mary Antin

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Author: Aharon Appelfeld

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

Author: Fiona Apple

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

Author: Thomas Aquinas