Quotes on Love

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Nothing changes the environment like one person deciding to love another, no matter what.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life

What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

You weren't born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you'll have everything you want.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

I listen with love to my body's messages.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.