Quotes on Love

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation - none of them - not in the long run. In the long run she only says Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me. And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

Sex was always surrounded by taboos, and I don't see it necessarily as a manifestation of evil. I think that sexuality is first and foremost the way that God chooses for us to be here on earth, to enjoy this energy of love in the physical plane.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.