Quotes on Love

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

One is very crazy when in love.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.