Love Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Love without conversation is impossible.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

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

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.

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.

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

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

I'm not angry with Axl anymore. I love him and I feel blessed that I got to work with him and achieve what I achieved with him. I guess time does heal all wounds.

My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.

Slash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as we are alive, we have it. We are brothers and what do brothers do? We fight. I may not like them all the time, but I will always love them.

There are so many Al Anon fans and friends who have shown me wonderful love, prayers, thoughts! I thank everyone for this. It feels great to have wonderful people behind you, pushing and praying for you. Mostly, I don't want to let myself down, but they encourage me not to let them down.

One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

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

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

When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.

I love writing songs.

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

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

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.

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.

Personally, I love Toronto.

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.

I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!

What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

I really love traveling to Japan.

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

I love color - I'm not a beige kind of girl.

I love my body.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

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.

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

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

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

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.

I love you, what star do you live on?

I always say the person who taught me how to sing indirectly because I listened to her all the time was Brandy. I fell in love with her voice when I was six years old. I always loved Brandy.

I think it's very hard if you love someone to walk away from a relationship that isn't healthy.

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.

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

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.

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

I love to doubt as well as know.

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

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

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

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

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.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

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.

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

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

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

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