Human Love Quotes:

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Kindness And Compassion, Daily Buddhist

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Revenge, Men, Peace And Love, Kings And Love

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Life, Philosophical, Words Love, Love Connection

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, Lovers Love, My Lover

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, Heart Love, Wise Love

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

- Hugh Walpole

source: "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

topic: Relationship, Marriage, Believe, Marriage Anniversary, Soulmate Love

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Loving Others, Close Relationship

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Great West Books

topic: Friendship, Love Is, Sight, Without Friends, Human Love

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

- Jim Harrison

source: Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Disappointment, Giving, Risk, Spectrum, Human Love

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

- A. N. Wilson

topic: Humans, Human Love

So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Love, Meaningful, Jesus, Deep And Meaningful, Make Happy

I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Love, Differences, Criticism, Aggressiveness, Communism And Socialism

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

- Marc Chagall

topic: Color, Flood, Humans, Human Love

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Money, Heart, Men, Gift Of Love, Human Love

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

- Francois Mauriac

topic: Love Is, Two, Weakness, Human Love

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: "Life Togehter".

topic: Spiritual, Mean, Love Is, Human Love

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

- Sri Aurobindo

topic: Love, Soulmate, Two, Soulmates And Love, Human Love

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

- Magnus Hirschfeld

topic: Ignorance, Gay, Winning, Ignorant People, Human Love

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

- Sri Chinmoy

source: Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.431, Aum Publications

topic: Life, Spiritual, Love Is, Divine Love, Human Love

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

- Simone Weil

source: Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.84, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Life, Knowing, Atheism, Human Love

Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Dream, Sweet, Night, Sweet Dreams, Human Love

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

- Margaret Fuller

topic: Lying, Flower, Light, Human Love

Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.

- Manis Friedman

topic: Emotional, Purpose, Emotion, Human Love

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.

- Ouida

topic: Angel, Passion, Rose, Common Things, Procreation

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

- Bruce D. Perry

source: "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing". Book by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavit, 2006.

topic: Powerful, Children, Healthy, Change Agent, Children Growing Up

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Mind, Desire, Faces, Human Love

Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.

- Basil Hume

topic: Death, Love You, Long, Ecstatic Love, Human Love

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Love, Couple, Men, Deformity, Honeymoon

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

- Robert Graves

topic: Intellectual, Finance, Humans, Perversion, Human Love

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Love, Mean, Hatred, Alone In Love, Divine Love

Is human love the growth of the human will ?

- Ellen Key

topic: Growth, Humans, Human Will, Human Love

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

- William Ralph Inge

topic: Love Is, Free Love, Holy, Human Love

We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.163, Penguin UK

topic: Life, Dream, Greatness, Human Love

Human love wants to possess and be possessed by the world. Divine love wants to establish its inseparable oneness with the world and then it wants to divinely enjoy this oneness. Supreme Love transforms human love into divine love and blesses divine love with boundless joy and divine pride.

- Sri Chinmoy

source: Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1063, Aum Publications

topic: Love, Pride, Oneness, Possessed, Human Love

Love of the limited self, the very limited self, is another name for human love. Love of the entire world is another name for divine love.

- Sri Chinmoy

source: Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1065, Aum Publications

topic: Love, Self, Names, Human Love

Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Love, Ambition, Men, Second Place, God And Love

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Love, Enemy, Needs, Divine Love, Human Love

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

- Sarada Devi

topic: Ordinary, Misery, God Love, Blessedness, Human Love

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

- Wladyslaw Szpilman

source: Wladyslaw Szpilman (2000). “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945”, p.177, Picador

topic: Evil, Holocaust, Humanity, Human Love

For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild; Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.

- Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

topic: Brother, Children, Grateful, Brother Sister, Brother Love

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

- Jane Goodall

topic: Fighting, Sacrifice, Compassion, Human Love

Two human loves make one divine.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850). “Poems: By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In two volumes”, p.302

topic: Anniversary, Two, Divine, Marriage Anniversary, Human Love

The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

- James A. Baldwin

source: "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

topic: Stars, Flower, Moon, Human Love

God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Plato, Children, Real, Human Love

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Passion, Classic, Prose, Howards End, Human Love

What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge?...Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Love, Hate, Heart, Capricious, Love And Acceptance

No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Heart, Humans, Human Love

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

- Jim Harrison

topic: Love, Disappointment, Tired, Spectrum, Human Love

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Spring, Healthy, Earth, Human Love