Quotes Temple Love Quotes

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

Douglas Adams
English Writer

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

Joseph Addison
English Writer

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.

Mortimer Adler
American Philosopher

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.

Mortimer Adler
American Philosopher

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Eden Ahbez
American Musician

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

Muhammad Ali
American Athlete

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
American Clergyman

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

Sai Baba
Indian Leader

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Sai Baba
Indian Leader

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

Richard Bach
American Novelist

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Richard Bach
American Novelist

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Pearl Bailey
American Actress

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Philip James Bailey
English Poet

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

James A. Baldwin
American Author

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

James A. Baldwin
American Author

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James A. Baldwin
American Author

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball
American Comedian

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Lucille Ball
American Comedian

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac
French Novelist

Love that is not madness is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spanish Dramatist

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spanish Dramatist

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Brigitte Bardot
French Actress

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Natalie Clifford Barney
American Author

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

James M. Barrie
British Playwright

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Drew Barrymore
Actress

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Drew Barrymore
Actress

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore
Actress

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Julius Caesar
Roman Leader

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Anne Campbell
English Politician

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus
French Philosopher

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John le Carre
English Writer

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Jim Carrey
Canadian Comedian

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

Bobby Darin
American Musician

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Amelia Earhart
American Aviator

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Meister Eckhart
German Philosopher

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein
German Physicist

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

George Eliot
British Author

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot
British Author

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

George Eliot
British Author

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Elizabeth I
English Royalty

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II
English Royalty

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington
American Musician

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Albert Ellis
American Psychologist

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis
American Psychologist

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Eminem
American Musician

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Werner Erhard
American Celebrity

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Euripides
Greek Poet

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides
Greek Poet

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

Euripides
Greek Poet

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Leslie Fiedler
American Critic

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald
American Musician

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald
American Writer

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert
French Novelist

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor
Hungarian Actress

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Maggie Gallagher
American Writer

There is not love where there is no will.

Indira Gandhi
Indian Statesman

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland
American Actress

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland
American Actress

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Theophile Gautier
French Poet

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

John Gay
English Poet

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Louis Gerstner
American Businessman

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran
Poet

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.

Khalil Gibran
Poet

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

Khalil Gibran
Poet

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran
Poet

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran
Poet

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Canadian Author

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry
American Playwright

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".

Sydney J. Harris
American Journalist

With our love, we could save the world.

George Harrison
British Musician

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Randy Harrison
American Actor

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Lee Iacocca
American Businessman

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Billy Idol
British Musician

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.

Washington Irving
American Writer

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving
American Writer

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Helen Hunt Jackson
American Writer

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

LaToya Jackson
American Musician

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Michael Jackson
American Singer

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan
Greek Celebrity

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Angelina Jolie
American Actress

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

Angelina Jolie
American Actress

I love you more than my own skin.

Frida Kahlo
Mexican Artist

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats
English Poet

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Garrison Keillor
American Writer

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

Helen Keller
American Author

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller
American Author

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

Helen Keller
American Author

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Ken Kesey
American Author

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Dalai Lama
Leader

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

Dalai Lama
Leader

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine
French Poet

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine
French Poet

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Ann Landers
American Journalist

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers
American Journalist

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

David Herbert Lawrence
English Writer

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

David Herbert Lawrence
English Writer

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Fran Lebowitz
American Journalist

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee
American Actor

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian Writer

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Shirley MacLaine
American Actress

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian Dramatist

Do all things with love.

Og Mandino
American Author

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino
American Author

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Marilyn Manson
American Musician

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

Imelda Marcos
Celebrity

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Christopher Marlowe
English Dramatist

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe
English Dramatist

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe
English Dramatist

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

George Jean Nathan
American Editor

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

George Jean Nathan
American Editor

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr
American Theologian

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin
American Author

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anais Nin
American Author

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anais Nin
American Author

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin
American Author

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin
American Author

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin
American Author

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin
American Author

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates
American Novelist

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri
Nigerian Poet

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

Jamie Oliver
British Celebrity

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

Ovid
Poet

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid
Poet

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.

Thomas Paine
English Writer

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

Sarah Palin
American Politician

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

Gilbert Parker
British Politician

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

George S. Patton
American Soldier

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Pope John Paul II
Polish Clergyman

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese
Italian Poet

Ultimately love is everything.

M. Scott Peck
American Psychologist

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles
English Poet

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle
American Vice President

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Francois Rabelais
French Clergyman

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Francois Rabelais
French Clergyman

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Jean Racine
French Dramatist

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Ayn Rand
Russian Writer

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand
Russian Writer

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Ronald Reagan
American President

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Keanu Reeves
Canadian Actor

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan
American Scientist

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Novelist

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Novelist

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Novelist

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Novelist

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Novelist

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

George Sand
French Novelist

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Adam Sandler
Actor

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

Torquato Tasso
Italiian Poet

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor
British Clergyman

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

Sachin Tendulkar
Indian Athlete

Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
English Poet

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
English Poet

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

Mother Teresa
Albanian Nun