L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.”
“love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.”
“Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.”
“Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.”
“Love of liberty, the refusal to accept your soul's enslavement, not even in exchange for paradise; stalwart games over and above love and pain, over and above death; smashing even the most sacrosant of the molds when they are unable to contain you any longer - these are the great cries of Crete. (Report to Greco)”
“Love of life at times requires death”
“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”
Source: The Spy who Loved Me
“Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.”
Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves
“Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.”
Source: Riders of the Purple Sage and the Rainbow Trail
“Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.”
“Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.”
“Love of money is the root of all evil, so governments honor politicians on it. Figures.”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.”
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.”
Source: Above the battle
“Love of My Life, a beacon so bright, guiding me through the darkness of life.”
Source: LOVE'S JOURNEY: THE REALM OF EMOTION
“Love of my life.
I have held this space in my heart for you since I can remember.
Shutting out the world at times in fear that they might call me delusional.
But here you are, you made it and we fit perfectly into each other.”
“Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don't ever go.”
“Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.”
Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future
“Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.”
“Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.”
Source: The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
“LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”
Source: The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
“Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.”
Source: Five Sermons
“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.”
Source: Bully!
“Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.”
Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820
“Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.”
Source: History of the Peloponnesian War
“Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“Love of purpose and purpose of love,
That's what defines a human being.
Being of love and love of being,
That's the civilized way of existing.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.”
“Love of religion may or may not make you a good person, but religion of love always does.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways.”
“Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.”
Source: Message to the Blackman in America
“Love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.”
Source: De Profundis
“Love of the body has an expiration date, love of the being has none.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Love of the limited self, the very limited self, is another name for human love. Love of the entire world is another name for divine love.”
Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga
“Love of the Lord God is grace to love thy neighbour.”
“Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.”
“Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.”
“Love of the soul is happiness to the spirit.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Love of the unseen person is the most powerful and the real that raises only in the hearts of the blessed ones for those, who are truthful and also blessed.”
“Love of the written word. Nurture yet disseminate. Accept and respect people with a different viewpoint. Laugh if you must but spare the flint!”
“Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.”
Source: The Sermons of Religion
“love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.”
Source: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
“Love often betrays, but a friend rarely does.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.”
“Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.”
“Love on its worst day conquers hate on its best day.”
“Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.”
“Love on today even if it stutters.”