Quotes about love

Don't offer a lecture to a person who needs a hug.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed.

Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because it was he; it was I.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our heart into what we are doing.

How deeply you touch another life is how rich your life is.

The important thing is not that people love you but that you are loving.

Love does not entreat or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself.

“He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me” — in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease.

Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.

The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

We can be deceived by believing what is untrue, but we certainly are also deceived by not believing what is true.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back.

Throw kindness around like confetti.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and call it love.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but just felt with the heart.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

To love, or to have loved — this is enough. Ask nothing further.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Work is love made visible.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Reader, I married him.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

You are your best thing, Sethe.

To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.

Love is as love does.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

Compassion is the basic social emotion.

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.