When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. Khalil Gibran on love
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. Khalil Gibran on love
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm on love
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau on love
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. Larry Flynt on love
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche on love
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. Bryant H. McGill on love
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison on love
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god? Friedrich Nietzsche on love
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. Ray Bradbury on love
One is very crazy when in love. Sigmund Freud on love
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. Benjamin Britten on love
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson on love
Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Henry David Thoreau on love
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. Anais Nin on love
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something. John Lennon on love
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein on love
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. Ralph Waldo Emerson on love
Because of a great love, one is courageous. Lao Tzu on love
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. Friedrich Nietzsche on love