Top 100 Love Not Quotes
#1. We do learn and get stronger through the hard stuff, but that's because God is love, not because God's putting us through some kind of obstacle course.
Nancy Rue
#2. Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy, she was on the lookout for it.
Leo Tolstoy
#4. If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.
Georgette Heyer
#5. Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.
Susan Block
#6. Surround yourself with love, not friends.
Lil' Wayne
#7. Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
John Lennon
#8. I believe in the power of love, not because I can see it, but because I see the world through it.
Debasish Mridha
#9. All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.
George W. Bush
#10. He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
Ovid
#11. You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
Mario Puzo
#12. It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.
Cassandra Clare
#13. In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.
Leighton Meester
#14. I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
P.D. James
#15. I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!
Celia Imrie
#16. Let it be love, not the power of position that guides you for your success.
Debasish Mridha
#17. I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.
Nikki Haley
#18. In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
John The Apostle
#19. Divine love loves that it may bless and do good. You ought to love not because it pleases you, but because it blesses them.
A.B. Simpson
#20. Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved ...
Thomas Carlyle
#21. Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
William Shakespeare
#22. The day I was born, March 1, 1994, Celine Dion was solid at #1 with 'The Power of Love.' Not a bad start to your life.
Justin Bieber
#23. A general message to "everyone" on the planet would go something along the lines of, "Make Love, Not War."
Jake T. Austin
#24. As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.
Kathryn Hahn
#25. As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.
Emily Procter
#26. That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.
Marya Hornbacher
#27. But I find soldiering false, a broken way to manage people who should be bound to you in love, not fear.
Kameron Hurley
#28. 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
Rachel Platten
#29. Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.
John Mellencamp
#30. I was born to share love, not hate", said Antigone. "Go then, and share your love for the dead", responds Creon.
Sophocles
#31. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more
George Gordon Byron
#32. The only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your
mouth
and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are
Frank O'Hara
#33. Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal of life remains the spiritual growth of the individual, the solitary journey to peaks that can be climbed only alone.
M. Scott Peck
#34. Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#35. I feel our goal should be love not marriage!-Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#36. ... sometimes when I close my eyes as I'm being taken, I can pretend that I'm someone special to these men. In my head I can be someone, someone worthy of love, not that white trash kid who left home on foot five years prior.
Candi Kay
#37. Love not for a reason but as if it is your ultimate purpose and passion.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Like a valet who commits grand theft auto not to go for a joy ride but to open a used car lot, so do we seize upon love not to revel in its ecstasies but to haggle over its blue-book value.
Bauvard
#39. We spent all day travelling, living away from the people you love, not sleep in our own bed ... We are far from our own houses. We live in hotels, clubs. And now that I am a father it is much more difficult.
Novak Djokovic
#40. acceptance is the heart of true love, not judgment. To be fully accepted by another, even in your weakest moment, is to finally feel at rest. You
Nicholas Sparks
#41. Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
#42. 9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10 This is real love - not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
Anonymous
#43. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Sarah Price
#44. Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.
Adriana Trigiani
#46. Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
Arthur Evans
#47. Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.
William Faulkner
#48. True love not only attracts hearts, but it also shines like the sun.
Debasish Mridha
#49. The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.
Old Tom Morris
#50. To keep me happy he can't just buy me presents, he has to be present. I want love. Not Louis Vuitton. And that's one hell of a burden for any man to carry.
Amy Mowafi
#51. Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.
Tom Robbins
#52. I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
George Eliot
#53. Spread love not hate, so that we can live and die in peace.
AKA
#54. When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#55. Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.
Horace Mann
#56. I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.
Afeni Shakur
#57. The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.
Lisa Kleypas
#58. So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.
John Knowles
#60. I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.
Maggie Stiefvater
#61. Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#62. Be the light. Be the love. Not to one or two selectively, but to each person who crosses your path today and every day.
Pooja Ruprell
#63. Love not the world, the preacher said, and winked his eye, and shook his head;
He seized on Tom, and Dick, and Ned, cut short their meat, and clothes, and bread, Yet still loved heavenly union
Marcus Chatman
#64. How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#65. You will know it is love not when you think about them all the time or want to be with them, but when you worry about them and you want their approval and happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#66. Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.
Brian Zahnd
#67. I would like to invite everyone for the Third World War, but fight the war with love, not with the gun, to win the world peace. We all will be a winner.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Because what touches His heart is not how much we know, but how much we love. Not how pure we are, but how passionate. Maybe that is why, when Pharisees were fighting over theology, prostitutes were falling at the Savior's feet and slipping into the kingdom of God on their tears.
Ken Gire
#69. Love not because you have to attract someone, love because you have an abundance of love in your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Love only gives hope if it is returned. A love not returned works like poison.
Skyla Madi
#72. It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
Sophocles
#75. Look here, cousin," Big Country's drawled in the background. "This here's a car. We just got off a plane, and no matter how fast you push this bitch, she ain't gon' fly, so believe me when I say, I refuse to die over some foolishness you call love, not today.
Shay Rucker
#77. I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
J.P. Donleavy
#79. A gift is a gift only when given as a genuine expression of love, not as an effort to cover over past failures.
Gary Chapman
#80. Inside of you is your love, not beside you. She is just there to remind you of where you placed her heart.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
#82. Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.
Margaret Atwood
#83. The thing is to sift out
the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring
hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for
the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment
for the sentence.
Richard Jackson
#86. Allow your hearts to be driven by principle, not bias. Love, not hate. Unity, not division. The fire of your dreams, not the rain of your sorrows.
Suzy Kassem
#87. Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers.
Kiese Laymon
#88. A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.
Ann Rinaldi
#89. Care: not carnage
Love: not loathing
Peace: not pieces
Maddy Kobar
#90. I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
George Harrison
#91. Life had stopped. Life would have to go on. Life went on, and in time the unbelievable began to happen; pleasure and happiness came back, and even joy. But love? Not again. I said it very firmly. Not again.
Mary Stewart
#92. For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.
William Tyndale
#93. We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.
Taylor Swift
#94. Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. I hope some day we will learn to use the power of love, not the power of gun and world will see the universal peace.
Debasish Mridha
#96. To understand love, use the heart, not the brain.
To understand the mind, use the love, not the brain.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Was it not because I loved man all-too-much? Now I love God. man I love not. Man is for me too imperfect a thing. Love of man would kill me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. My mouth was under attack but it felt like love, not war. It was a battle that wouldn't have a victor because we both won as we took everything the other offered, and I knew we were both going to lose as soon as the sun came up in the morning and we had to officially say goodbye
Jay Crownover
#99. God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood.
Sri Chinmoy
#100. Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.
John Gay
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