Quotes about love
love eye blind
Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. Johann Sebastian Bach
love pain mean
To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
love faces worst
The worst of faces still is human. Johann Kaspar Lavater
love know-yourself hated
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. Johann Kaspar Lavater
love eye bears
True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw. Johann Kaspar Lavater
love differences order
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. Johann Kaspar Lavater
love simple rose
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek. Johann Kaspar Lavater
love-you night thinking
You aren't even angry with me anymore, Stefan, so let me up." He didn't budge. "It would be a misconception on your part, little Tanya, if you are thinking I have to be angry to make love to you." His head bent, his lips grazing her cheek all the way to her ear. With his warm breath sending tingles all over her, he continued in a whisper, "I wanted you last night, today a dozen times, right now more than ever. Tell me to love you, Tanya. Demand it of me! Johanna Lindsey
love knows
We don't get to know anything but what we love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love two enough
Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love mean advantage
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love glasses light
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love magic pushing-it
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love self faults
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love motivational romantic
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love self majority
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love inspirational life
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love spring heart
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love duty can-do
Love can do much, but duty more. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love truth literature
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love life girl
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love baby children
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love together crowns
[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love how-to-love worship
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love kings son
A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love flower wind
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love-is empty fortune
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love faults virtue
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love love-is hatred
Hatred is partial, but love is still more so. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love way faces
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love claims exclusive
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love wonderful form
Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
love years elderly
Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe