Inspirational Love famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.
-- Albert Einstein -
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.
-- Alfred Adler -
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.
-- Alice Walker -
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
-- Anais Nin -
You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
-- Ashthon Jones -
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
-- Barbara Pym -
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.
-- Bayard Rustin -
And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.
-- Bob Dylan -
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.
-- Carter Heyward -
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.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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."
-- Charles Kingsley -
I love humanity but I hate people.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
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.
-- Frank Lampard -
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
-- George Sand -
#HatersGonnaHate but thankfully #LoversGonnaLove.
-- Hal Elrod -
If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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.
-- Isaac Marion -
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
-- Ivan Panin -
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.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.
-- Jens Peter Jacobsen -
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
-- Jessamyn West -
Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.
-- Madeleine de Scudery -
We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.
-- Margaret Guenther -
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.
-- Mary Calderone -
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
-- Mother Teresa -
Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
-- Mother Teresa -
The best love affairs are those we never had.
-- Norman Lindsay -
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
-- P. C. Cast -
Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.
-- Paulo Coelho -
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
-- Pema Chodron -
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
-- Richard Marx -
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt to lose.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?
-- Stephenie Meyer -
Shift from judgment to compassion to love.
-- Thomas Leonard -
There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love.
-- Tim McGraw -
The more space you allow and encourage within a relationship, the more the relationship willflourish.
-- Wayne Dyer -
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.
-- William Sloane Coffin
