Quotes on Love

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.