Quotes about Love

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

The only remedy for love is to love more.

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau

The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

You who govern public affairs, what need have you to employ punishments? Love virtue, and the people will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass—the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.