This post is a collection of quotes about love. There are 15 quotes listed below.
Victor Frankl:
"Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and believe have to impart: the salvation of man is through love and in love." (Man's Search for Meaning, 1946)
Soren Kierkegaard:
"When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love." (Works of Love, 1847)
Novalis:
"Every beloved object is the center of a paradise." (Bluthenstaub-Fragmente, 1798)
Khalil Gibran:
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty and obey only love." (The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul, 1994 posthumous)
Gautama Buddha:
"Hatred has never stopped hatred. Only love stops hate. This is the eternal law." (Dhammapada)
Paulo Coelho:
"The wise are wise only because they love." (Quoted in Elders on Love by Kenneth Lakritz and Thomas Knoblauch, 1999)
William Moulton Marston:
"Suppose your child's ideal becomes a superman who uses his extraordinary power to help the weak. The most important ingredient in the human happiness recipe still is missing love." (The Secret History of Wonder Woman, 2014)
Thomas Mann:
"Socrates... said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved." (Death in Venice,1930)
Lewis Mumford:
"These historic manifestations of love are not recorded in the day's newspaper of current radio program: they are hidden to the people who possess only fashionable minds." (Values for Survival, 1946)
Leo Buscaglia:
"A life of love is one of continual growth where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully." (Interview with Veronica Hay in A Magazine of People and Possibilities, 1948)
Sri Chinmov:
"Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self." (Then Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100, 1979)
Joseph Conrad:
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love and to put trust in life!" (Victory: An Island Tale, 1915)
Benjamin Disraeli:
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and it's only end." (Sybil, 1845)
Will Durant:
"Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along." (Quoted in Parade Magazine, 1978)
Rasheed Ogunlaru:
"In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day." (Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations)
