Quotes on Love

Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

You have to address anger, fear, and then to think about what the alternatives are: hope, faith, a certain kind of brotherly love. And then you have to set yourself to cultivate those.

It's a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.