Quotes on Inspiring Love

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

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

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

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

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

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

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.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

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.

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.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Things must be felt with the heart.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.