35 Quotes About Love
Not the greeting-card kind — the kind the Sufis, the Stoics and the poets meant: love as practice, as attention, as the hardest and most worthwhile discipline a person can keep.
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
“We pardon to the extent that we love.”
“The Gita is a love letter from God to humanity, written in the language of dilemma.”
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule.”
“I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.”
“When you say I love you to your body, it remembers it was loved before it was hurt.”
“The four phrases are not magic words. They are a stance. The stance is: I see, I am responsible, I am grateful, I love.”
“I love you is a sentence that does the work of a lifetime, if you are willing to mean it.”
“Aloha au ia ʻoe. I love you. The shortest hoʻoponopono. Said to the self in the mirror, the body, the work, the child, the ancestor — it works in every direction.”
“Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience, rather than about things. It is about being with the people we love. A feeling of home. A feeling that we are safe.”
“I do not eat to live. I live to eat well, slowly, with people I love.”
“I am one whose heart is light. I have done what is loved by gods and men.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
“Eroticism in long-term love requires distance, mystery, and a partner you have not entirely figured out.”
“We are wired to need a few irreplaceable others. Love is not an emotion. It is a survival code.”
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
“Two people who really love each other are more than two people — they are a third, which is the relationship.”
“We do not need more good ideas about love. We need to call the people we love today.”
“Hold onto the people you love. It is the whole work.”
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.”
“Saying no can be the most self-loving, self-respecting thing you do all week.”
“Finns do not say "I love you." They build something with you and let the years speak.”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that — it lights the whole sky.”
“The Seven Valleys of the soul are seven, and the journey through them is the work of a lifetime: Quest, Love, Knowledge, Independence, Unity, Bewilderment, Annihilation.”
“The Beloved is in your house, in your sleeve, in the mirror of your own face. The seeking is the not-finding.”
“My heart has opened to every form. It is a pasture for gazelles, a cloister for Christian monks, a temple for idols, a Kaaba for the pilgrim, the tablets of the Torah, the book of the Quran. Love is my religion.”
“I love Thee with two loves — love for my own happiness, and perfect love, to love Thee as is Thy due.”
“I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is compassion. The second is frugality. The third is not daring to be ahead of others.”
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It is a relationship between equals.”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“When elephants fight, the grass suffers. When they make love, the grass also suffers.”