love quotes

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”

— Mother Teresa

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”

— Mother Teresa

Love quotes - Love your enemies, for they shall tell you all your faults.

“Love your enemies, for they shall tell you all your faults.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

— Paulo Coelho

Love quotes - One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.”

— Ray Bradbury

“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

— Carl Jung

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”

— Voltaire

Love quotes - I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.

“I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.”

— Antonio Banderas

“I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.”

— Antonio Banderas

“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.”

— Agatha Christie

Love quotes - But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

“But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.”

— Agatha Christie

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”

— Agatha Christie

“He would make a lovely corpse.”

— Charles Dickens

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”

— Pablo Picasso

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

— Jane Austen

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

— Confucius

“All is fair in love and songwriting.”

— Norah Jones