Some of My Favorite Quotes About Love

Tomorrow is February 14, Valentine's Day, so I thought I'd share some of my favorite quotes about love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

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

Carl Jung:

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Elbert Hubbard:

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.


Euripides:

He is not a lover who does not love forever.


Felix Adler:

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Gary Zukav:

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

George Sand:

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Henry David Thoreau:

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.


There is no remedy for love but to love more.


Henry Miller:

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we can never give enough of is love.

Incredible String Band:

You get brighter every day, and every time I see you, scattered brightness in your way, and you taught me how to love you.

Kahlil Gibran:

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Oscar Wilde:

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Rainer Maria Rilke:

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

Rumi: (Rumi is one of my favorite sources for inspiration.)

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.


Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love.


Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.


Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama:

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.


Ursula K. Le Guin:

Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to made like bread; remade all the time, made new.

William Shakespeare:

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.