Quotes about Love
The only true gift is a portion of thyself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love; Obey thy heart....
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love that you withhold is the pain you carry.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own ends, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson