Quotes About Love

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

A girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

The spring sunshine streamed in like a benediction over the placid face upon the pillow—a face so full of painless peace, that those who loved it best smiled through their tears, and thanked God that Beth was well at last.

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

Love is a great beautifier.

for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.

Be worthy love, and love will come.

You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he's the right one.

Just remember, honey, you only have one heart.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

There was so much to love I could not love it all;I could not love it enough.

Goodbye, goodbye! There was so much to love, I could not love it all; I could not love it enough.

You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth, You have said my name as a prayer. Here where trees are planted by water I have watched your eyes, cleansed from regret, And your lips, closed over all that love cannot say.

Goodbye, goodbye! There was so much to love, I could not love it all; I could not love it enough. — Louise Bogan, from "After the Persian," The Blue Estuaries: Poems: 1923-1968 . (Farrar, Straus and Giroux October 31, 1995) Originally published November 1st 1974.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.