Quotes
Quotes about Love
Him that I love, I wish to be freeâeven from me.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
He alone may chastise who loves.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Of course, it's possible to love a human beingâif you don't know them too well.
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually 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.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Be yourself and do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
