Quotes on Free Love

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved -- loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

The more one judges, the less one loves.