For one human being to love another human being:
that is perhaps the most difficult task
that has been entrusted to us,
the ultimate task,
the final test and proof,
the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
-Kahlil Gibran
-Mooji
Love is a game that two can play
and both can win.
-Eva Gabor
Love alone can awaken love.
-Pearl S. Buck
What matters in relation to love
is the faith in one's own love;
in its ability to produce love in others.
-Erich Fromm
and both can win.
-Eva Gabor
Love alone can awaken love.
-Pearl S. Buck
What matters in relation to love
is the faith in one's own love;
in its ability to produce love in others.
-Erich Fromm
Love depends upon the capacity
to reach beneath the surface of persons,
to feel and touch the seed of life that is hidden there.
And love becomes a power
when it is capable of evoking that seed
and drawing it forth from its hiding place.
-Ira Progoff
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings
in such a way as to complete and fulfill them,
for it alone takes them and joins them
with what is deepest in themselves.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The first duty of love is to listen.
-Paul Tillich
If you would be loved,
love, and be loveable.
-Benjamin Franklin
It's all about falling in love with yourself
and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you,
rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
-Ertha Kitt
to reach beneath the surface of persons,
to feel and touch the seed of life that is hidden there.
And love becomes a power
when it is capable of evoking that seed
and drawing it forth from its hiding place.
-Ira Progoff
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings
in such a way as to complete and fulfill them,
for it alone takes them and joins them
with what is deepest in themselves.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The first duty of love is to listen.
-Paul Tillich
If you would be loved,
love, and be loveable.
-Benjamin Franklin
It's all about falling in love with yourself
and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you,
rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
-Ertha Kitt
Falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
-Czeslaw Milosz
-Czeslaw Milosz
It is the rising intended by love,
not falling.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
We can learn to love
only by loving.
-Iris Murdoch
We must learn to love
those who think exactly opposite to us.
-Vivekananda
The giving of love
is an education in itself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If I want to be loved as I am,
I have to be willing to love others as they are.
-Louise Hay
Love a person for what he is.
Love him again for what he is not.
Love him again for what he may become.
Love him once more for not judging you
as you are judging him.
-Quoted by Marcus Bach
True Love does not require liking.
To like is to recognize you and me,
it is to affirm the separation.
But Love is a state of union.
-R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
Love is the extreme realization
that something other than oneself is real.
-Iris Murdoch
The only thing we can never get enough of is love.
And the only thing we can never give enough of is love.
-Henry Miller
In real love you want the other person’s good.
In romantic love you want the other person.
-Margaret Caroline Anderson
Young love is a flame; very pretty,
often very hot and fierce,
but still only light and flickering.
The love of the older and disciplined heart
is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
-Henry Ward Beecher
When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.
-Robert Bridges
not falling.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
We can learn to love
only by loving.
-Iris Murdoch
We must learn to love
those who think exactly opposite to us.
-Vivekananda
The giving of love
is an education in itself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If I want to be loved as I am,
I have to be willing to love others as they are.
-Louise Hay
Love a person for what he is.
Love him again for what he is not.
Love him again for what he may become.
Love him once more for not judging you
as you are judging him.
-Quoted by Marcus Bach
True Love does not require liking.
To like is to recognize you and me,
it is to affirm the separation.
But Love is a state of union.
-R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
Love is the extreme realization
that something other than oneself is real.
-Iris Murdoch
The only thing we can never get enough of is love.
And the only thing we can never give enough of is love.
-Henry Miller
In real love you want the other person’s good.
In romantic love you want the other person.
-Margaret Caroline Anderson
Young love is a flame; very pretty,
often very hot and fierce,
but still only light and flickering.
The love of the older and disciplined heart
is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
-Henry Ward Beecher
When first we met we did not guess
That Love would prove so hard a master.
-Robert Bridges
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
-Theodore Roethke
When one loves, one does not calculate.
-Saint Therese of Lisieux
Love does not dominate, it cultivates.
And that is more.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't love someone because they're perfect.
You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
-Jodi Picoult
We come to love
not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see
an imperfect person perfectly.
-Sam Keen
Perfect love is rare indeed -
for to be a lover will require that continually you have
the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child,
the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher,
the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar,
and the fortitude of the certain.
-Leo Buscaglia
Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
-Jodi Picoult
The love that lasts the longest
is the love that is never returned.
-W. Somerset Maugham
One makes mistakes; that is life.
But it is never a mistake to have loved.
-Romain Rolland
Love is not the opposite of hate.
Being whole, love has no opposites.
-Deepak Chopra
To be loved for what one is,
is the greatest exception.
The great majority love in another
only what they lend him,
their own selves, their vision of him.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As long as there is man and woman
there is opposition and enmity,
and their relationship can only be that of copulation,
whether physical, emotional or mental.
Call this love if you wish so to name the symbol of Love -
Love which is by the extension, the dissolution of all in all.
-R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
When love flies it is remembered not as love
but as something else.
-E. M. Forster
Once I have loved, I do not cease from loving.
-Aurobindo Ghose
A true lover always feels in debt
to the one he loves.
-Frank W. Sockman
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart
and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
-Arne Garborg
Who are wisest in love,
love most and say least.
-Alfred Tennyson
For this is the hardest of all:
to close the open hand out of love.
-Friedrich Wilhelm von Nietzsche
Who would give a law to lovers?
Love is unto itself a higher law.
-Boethius
People say love is blind.
Because they do not know what love is.
I say unto you, only love has eyes:
other than that, everything is blind.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"
To love is to approach each other
center to center.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In essence, love is what you experience
when your soul sees the soul of another.
-Robert Holden
To love is to love oneself in the other.
-Robert Sabatier
In love self is obliterated.
Only the beloved counts.
-Henry Miller
Ultimately we wish the joy of perfect union
with the person we love.
-Mortimer J. Adler
We loved with a love
that was more than love.
-Edgar Allan Poe
-Theodore Roethke
When one loves, one does not calculate.
-Saint Therese of Lisieux
Love does not dominate, it cultivates.
And that is more.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't love someone because they're perfect.
You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
-Jodi Picoult
We come to love
not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see
an imperfect person perfectly.
-Sam Keen
Perfect love is rare indeed -
for to be a lover will require that continually you have
the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child,
the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher,
the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar,
and the fortitude of the certain.
-Leo Buscaglia
Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
-Jodi Picoult
The love that lasts the longest
is the love that is never returned.
-W. Somerset Maugham
One makes mistakes; that is life.
But it is never a mistake to have loved.
-Romain Rolland
Love is not the opposite of hate.
Being whole, love has no opposites.
-Deepak Chopra
To be loved for what one is,
is the greatest exception.
The great majority love in another
only what they lend him,
their own selves, their vision of him.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As long as there is man and woman
there is opposition and enmity,
and their relationship can only be that of copulation,
whether physical, emotional or mental.
Call this love if you wish so to name the symbol of Love -
Love which is by the extension, the dissolution of all in all.
-R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
When love flies it is remembered not as love
but as something else.
-E. M. Forster
Once I have loved, I do not cease from loving.
-Aurobindo Ghose
A true lover always feels in debt
to the one he loves.
-Frank W. Sockman
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
-Arne Garborg
Who are wisest in love,
love most and say least.
-Alfred Tennyson
For this is the hardest of all:
to close the open hand out of love.
-Friedrich Wilhelm von Nietzsche
Who would give a law to lovers?
Love is unto itself a higher law.
-Boethius
People say love is blind.
Because they do not know what love is.
I say unto you, only love has eyes:
other than that, everything is blind.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"
To love is to approach each other
center to center.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In essence, love is what you experience
when your soul sees the soul of another.
-Robert Holden
To love is to love oneself in the other.
-Robert Sabatier
In love self is obliterated.
Only the beloved counts.
-Henry Miller
Ultimately we wish the joy of perfect union
with the person we love.
-Mortimer J. Adler
We loved with a love
that was more than love.
-Edgar Allan Poe
