Quotes on Love

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists, who as children we'd been taught to fear, kept a resistance movement alive, living and dying true to their ideals.

Love either finds equality or makes it.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

When you become completely loving and kind without fear and without thought of harming others, you graudate from the Earth school. That is when reincarnation ends.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who might feel that he or she needs it.

I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love."

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.