Love quotes

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I love a natural look in pictures.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

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.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.