“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
Love is the most written-about subject in human history, and it still manages to surprise us. These quotes cover romantic love, family love, self-love, unrequited love, and the kind of love that quietly sustains you through ordinary days.
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.”
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
“There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.”
“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
“Hatred is blind, as well as love.”
“Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.”
“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
“But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.”
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”