Quotes on Love

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.