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Reading Comprehension - Love and marriage quotes
Develop your reading skills. Read the following love quotes and sayings.
Love quotes
Successful marriage
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
I love life
I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins
The face of a man
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
The birth of love
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
Loving heart
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
Without his wings
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
Fortune and love
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
Gravitation
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Not only to be loved
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
Honey
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Conqueror
Love conquers all.
Virgil
It cultivates
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is a canvas
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Gross exageration
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a smoke
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
All we have
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
Holy fashion
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love and peace
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon
One word
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Sophocles
Power and love
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truly artistic
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh
The same direction
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Friendship
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
An advantage of marriage
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
Whatever you do
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.
Voltaire
To fear love
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Love looks with the mind
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
Loved to be known
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal
One religion
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran
The course of love
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Choosing a job
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius
The lovely April
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
William Shakespeare
A mother's love
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.
Washington Irving
A mother's love is not
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce
A work of love
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney
The principle of love
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most powerful force
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefeller
When they love us
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac
For love
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau
Love made visible
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran
Tears
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
Never
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway
If I love you
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But my heart
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A net of love
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Loving heart
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
Love of beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot
Cure of love
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage without love
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Your work
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The same message
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama
They are necessities
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
One is loved
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho
The wise
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho
It takes us somewhere
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho
A trap
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho
It can be a nightmare
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
Paulo Coelho
Only love can
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feared or loved?
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
In the heart
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha
What I needed
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine
Loving your creator
Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.
Prophet Muhammad
We are all visitors
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
Indigenous / Aboriginal saying
Let them go
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Khalil Gibran
Deserving father's love
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost
For money
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere
Love
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere
Reason and love
Reason is not what decides love.
Moliere
Memory of friends
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
Beautiful flower
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
Selfishness and the mind
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
Gestures
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais
Those who can smile in trouble
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
Sincerer love
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
Food of love
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
Not necessity, not desire
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If one has not dined well
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
Only more love
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
Smile
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
Spread love
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
Love begins at home
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa
The hunger for love
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
Intense love
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
Even the rich!
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa
Giving money
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa
Mickey Mouse
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt Disney
To love beauty
To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo
Love and creation of beauty
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My great hope
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
I live it
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
Maya Angelou
We are not the same persons
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham
Dirty trick
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
Respect and love
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leo Tolstoy
What is hell?
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I love mankind
I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love of the family
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Maya Angelou
Sustaining myself
I sustain myself with the love of family.
Maya Angelou
Inspired
I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.
Barack Obama
In the same direction
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When one is so sad
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
True love
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Someone to love
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Marilyn Monroe
The real lover
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
Before and after marriage
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
Comfort and love
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Coco Chanel
If you have only one smile
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
Stealing your love
A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.
Stephen King
Beauty of the soul
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Jealous
He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine
Each of us
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine
The best portion
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
Loved or understood?
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell
If you loved someone
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
George Orwell
More than love
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
Melancholy
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe
Years of love
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe
Deep in Earth
Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.
Edgar Allan Poe
Born of love
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
Rumi
beauty of what you love
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
They're in each other
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
Rumi
From childhood
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
Edgar Allan Poe
Indestructible
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
John Steinbeck
The people we love
We do not judge the people we love.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Loved and loving
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Kindness in giving
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Loved before it exists
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens
I loved her
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens
Speaking of love
If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
Twyla Tharp
Love and giving
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa
Willing to give
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.
Mother Teresa
Spread your love
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa
Every heart sings a song
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet
Plato
Recognizing yourself in another
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
Eckhart Tolle
Good life
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Don't waste time
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. - Bruce Lee If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
It is like a friendship caught on fire
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
The garden of love
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
Rumi
No companion but Love
I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'
Rumi
Privilege
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius
Tthe universe loves change
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius
Love in times of trouble
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
The greatest pleasure
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides
Forever
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides
The flower of life
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
Loving so easily
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
D. H. Lawrence
Making war because of peace
People always make war when they say they love peace.
D. H. Lawrence
Towards the other soul
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. Lawrence
Unsatisfied and loved woman
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
D. H. Lawrence
It is better
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The only gold
Love is the only gold.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
What's invisible
Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Spiritual fire
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Seneca
Spaces in your togetherness
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran
Everything to me
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael Jordan
They love give everything
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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