Inspirational Love Quotations

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

I love humanity but I hate people.

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.

I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.

The most important thing in life..

Hate is too great a burden to bear....

For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

Love to me is someone telling me, 'I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I'd jump out of a plane for you.'

I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

In a choice between love and fear, choose love.

What will survive of us is love.

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?

Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.

True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

We are all children searching for love.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?

You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt to lose.

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes Or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.

Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo..

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Love is not about getting - but giving.

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.

Where there is love, there is God also.

We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.

Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.

True love always happens in a flash.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

We love the things we love for what they are.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

The more space you allow and encourage within a relationship, the more the relationship willflourish.

I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine, But O, he lives in the moony light! I thought to find Love in the heat of day, But sweet Love is the comforter of night.

The heart wants what it wants.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.