The crime of loving is forgetting.
Maurice Chevalier

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
Polly Berrien Berends

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
Nelson Algren

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
Edith Stein

The loving are the daring.
Bayard Taylor

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
Elihu Root

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. Murray

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
Dalton Trumbo

The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had such heartfelt, loving fans.
Michael Schenker

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
Lionel Hampton

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
William Hall

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.
Jeffrey Sachs

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Matthew Hale