Quotes on Love

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.