Quotes on Love

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.