Those We Love Quotes:

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Believe, Willing, Those We Love, Willing To Die

To those we love best we say the least

- John Ray

topic: Love Is, Those We Love

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

- Gustave Flaubert

source: Gustave Flaubert (2015). “Madame Bovary - Interactive Bilingual Edition (English / French): A Classic of French Literature from the prolific French writer, known for Salammbô, Sentimental Education, Bouvard et Pécuchet, November and Three Tales”, p.199, e-artnow

topic: Hands, Idols, Those We Love, Disparaging

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.368, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

topic: Should, Those We Love

It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.

- Norm MacDonald

topic: Hate, Easier, Those We Love, Hated Love

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Love, Inspirational, Heart, Unbreakable, Captivating

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Physical Beauty, Long Relationship

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, If You Love Someone, Marriage Advice

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

topic: Love, Life, Change, 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

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

source: Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.193, Penguin

topic: Love, True Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Romance, Loving Love

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

- Rossiter W. Raymond

source: Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

topic: Sympathy, Death, Military, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Life, Philosophical, Insanity And Sanity, Perfect Love

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

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

- Tom Robbins

source: Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

topic: Love, Marriage, Time, Lovers Love, Inspirational Romance

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Love, Recovery, Self, Reciprocity, Inspirational Romance

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

topic: Heart, Great Feelings, Physical Beauty, Say I Love You, Long Relationship

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Great Feelings, Always Happy

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Impress A Girl, Say I Love You

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, Free Love, Inspiring Love

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Souls In Love, I Love You Like

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Life And Happiness, Light And Love

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, Infantile, Inspirational Romance

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Love, Inspirational, Relationship, Knowing Love, Inspirational True Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.55, Lulu.com

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Matters Of The Heart, My Heart Is Broken

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Joan Crawford

source: Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1954.

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Dream, Humor Love, Humorous Love

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano De Crescenzo

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, New Friendship, Heart Love

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Romance, Unselfish Love

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Romantic, Humorous Love, I Love You Like

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

- Zelda Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Positive, Romantic, Inspirational Romance, Matters Of The Heart

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Kindness, Inspirational Romance, Inspirational True Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Humorous Love, St Valentine

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Special Moments, Best Memories

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Love, Expectations, Short Love, Showing Love, Love For Her

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Love, Inspiring, Marriage, Motivational Love, Love Fashion

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, Knowing Love, Failed Relationship

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Positive, Love Is, Expectations, Light Of Love, Gift Of Love

We accept the love we think we deserve.

- Stephen Chbosky

topic: Love, Inspirational, Marriage, Inspirational Tattoo, Lovers Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

- Anna Louise Strong

topic: Love, Dream, Missing Someone, Comrade, Easy Love

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Love, Friendship, I Miss You, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

- Helen Hayes

topic: Love, Glimpse, Engagement, Love Is All You Need, Dignity And Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

- John Lennon

topic: Love, Boyfriend, Marriage, Soulmate Love, Inspiration Love

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Sympathy, Memories, Knowing, Inspirational Condolences, Memory Loss

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

- Helen Keller

topic: Love, Death, Grief, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

- Liane Moriarty

source: Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

topic: Going Away, Someone You Miss, Missed You, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Bereavement

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

- Julia Roberts

topic: Love, Happiness, Broken Heart, Inspiration Love, Free Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Life, Family, Say I Love You, Happy Love

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

- Robert Fulghum

source: "True Love". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1997.

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Marriage Toast, Inspirational Romance

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

- Sophocles

source: "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

topic: Love, Life, Wedding, Love Pain, Special Moments

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

- Sam Keen

topic: Love, Anniversary, Marriage, My Girlfriend, Marriage Advice

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Free Love, Time Love

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Soulmate Love

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Laozi

topic: Love, Relationship, Positive, Touch Someone, Courage To Change