Quotes on Love

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

All work is empty save when there is love.

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds _x000D_ _x000D_ Admit impediments: love is not love _x000D_ _x000D_ Which alters when it alteration finds.

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.