Quotes on Love

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where Forms and Styles and Knowledge dwell. I love flowers made of glass or gold, true Art's true gifts, their painted hues more beautiful than nature's, worked in nacre and enamel, with perfect leaves and branches.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.