Quotes on Love

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?

The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.