Love Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 31

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

Hell''s afloat in lover''s tears.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved; it is God''s finger on man''s shoulder.

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful a thought that is love.

the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much

I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you.

For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes.

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

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

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

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

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection ? that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one''s love upon other human individuals.

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

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

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

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

When you''re 50 you start thinking about things you haven''t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it''s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you''re wrong, admit it; Whenever you''re right, shut up.

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I''ll never see a tree at all.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.