Inspirational Love Quotes

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away

Alexander,
Caesar,
Charlemagne,
and I have founded empires.
But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force.
Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love;
and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

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.

There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I love all the things there are, and of all fires love is the only inexhaustible one; and that's why I go from life to life.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

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

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.

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

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

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

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.

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

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

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

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.

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.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.

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.

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

What will survive of us is love.

The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.

..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

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

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

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.

I love humanity but I hate people.

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

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.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took.

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

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?

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.

We love the things we love for what they are.

We are all children searching for love.

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.

In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.