Quotes on Love Is

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Love is the absence of judgment.