Love Quotes

"A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief." "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'" "If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment or an enlarged egotism" "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and become fully independent" "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist 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." "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood" "The creative mind plays with the objects it loves" "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." "Free will is like love: it is real, it matters, it can be misunderstood." "If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life" "What happens when people open their hearts? They get better" "I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." "Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first—the story of our quest for sexual love. The second—the story of our quest for a love affair with the world." "Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other." "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."