love quotes

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Great loves too must be endured.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Who, being loved, is poor?

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

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.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

I love the sea.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.