Those We Love Quotes

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us – the voyage we must make alone.

The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly
themselves.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.